Childminders - planning and learning journeys

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Would anyone be willing to send me some of their planning? If so, please PM me and i give you my email address.

Thanks for any help :)

What is it you are after because its fairly pointless seeing someone elses planning for a child you don't know.
If you are new to childminding then treat yourself to the penny tassoni book on amazon and take a look on the bromley website for any forms you may need.
The easiest planning is to follow the childs interests and build on that, don't try to overthink what you need to do, keep it simple.
If you can be a bit more specific on what you need i'll gladly help. Have you discovered the childminding forum as there are some free downloads on there that you may find useful, also if you are struggling then make sure you speak to your development officer at the council and see if they can email any forms you can use.

Any generic planning really. Do you plan stuff to do and then fit the children in around it e.g. today we are developing our fine motor skills with playdough and beading etc or do you plan specifically for the children in your care?

I plan around the children. Each child has their own plans and we build them into the following weeks activities.

And the children sometimes change the plans ...

i do a theme for the week and plan activities around this. children often pick the theme.

so last week was ice and we made icicle paintings, put out water pots overnight so the children could see them frozen in the morning, we made little cakes with 'snow icing', for me I keep it simple as not a qualified teacher so just doing my best to have fun with the children and hopefully they learn lots through play.

they are all under 4 so its not rocket science is it??

if I was stressing about all this I would just give up, got a good Ofsted report, wont ever be outstanding as not prepered to spend all my evenings in pointless paperwork.