Little Ones Childcare

Little Ones Childcare Little Ones Childcare- providing high quality childcare and early education. Nurseries based in Budlake, Honiton, Whipton and Bovey Tracey

Contacting us....if you would like some more information regarding Little Ones please find our individual nursery details in the 'Our Nurseries' section of this site. Alternatively you can contact our head office for more general advice on 01392 469909 or [email protected] You can also email Katie Porter direct on [email protected].

At Whipton....Next week our book of the week will be Egg to Bee, our Makaton sign will be bee, and our number of the wee...
31/05/2026

At Whipton....Next week our book of the week will be Egg to Bee, our Makaton sign will be bee, and our number of the week will be 1.



Throughout the week, the children will discover how bees grow, what they do, and why they are so important for our world. Our weekly focus will centre on understanding the world, and in our invitation to play we will explore the life cycle of a bee using natural materials, flowers, and small world bees for the children to investigate, sort, and sequence.

To extend this learning, our continuous provision will include a bee garden sensory tray, filled with oats, yellow pompoms, flowers, and small bees for scooping, pouring, pollinating, and imaginative storytelling.



Last week, the children absolutely loved learning about superheroes, they made masks, shields and capes! But with the return of the lovely warm weather, we were also able to spend lots of time outdoors, making the most of the paddling pools, sand tray, and water play.

At Honiton....This week at Honiton we have been learning about farms! At cube times with the toddlers we have been looki...
31/05/2026

At Honiton....This week at Honiton we have been learning about farms! At cube times with the toddlers we have been looking at the book “Oh Dear” and have used the farm animals in the cube to help us find them in the story. We have been talking about the names of animals and the sounds they make. The babies had farm animals in water and have been giving them a good wash! We have also had animals in a tuff tray and have been role playing farms by putting them into the barn and feeding them grass. The toddlers have been exploring different shapes and have been using these to create their own tractors! We talked about the big wheels and the small wheels and how tractors go to the farm.



As we’ve had lots of sunshine this week we had paddling pools out every day too, we had fun splashing in the water to keep us cool. We had balls in the water and buckets to practice some transportation skills.



Next week we are learning about sounds and our book is “Nature sounds”. The babies will be exploring musical instruments and the different sounds they make and will be listening out for sounds in the garden, like birds or cars. The toddlers will be creating their own musical instruments using different items, such as pasta and feathers to make different sounds. Outside we will have water play with metal bowls and wooden spoons to explore how using wooden spoons on metal bowls can make sounds with water in the bowls.

At Budlake....Next week our story is how to count to one and during our enhanced learning opportunities we will be doing...
31/05/2026

At Budlake....Next week our story is how to count to one and during our enhanced learning opportunities we will be doing all things maths. In the small world area, we will be exploring the counting bears with matching coloured bowls, tweezers, and magnifying glasses. We will be comparing sizes, matching colours and grouping objects alongside an adult to support our learning. In the garden we will be drawing around each other using chalks and then comparing the length of our bodies using tape measures to see how tall we are compared our friends. our focus of the week will be practising and strengthening our gross motor skills and in our continuous provision we will be accessing resources such as playdough with large tools, bats and balls and climbing equipment.



This week our book was all about under the sea, we loved exploring sand playdough which helped to strengthen our fine motor skill through the use of tools such as rollers and cutters. As it was so sunny this week we have spent the afternoons enjoying the paddling pools, splashing in them, going down the slides and filling and emptying containers. We have also loved using paper and scissors to make our own fans and practised using one handed tools to make snips in the paper.

At Whipton....Next week we will be learning all about superheroes. Our book of the week will be There’s a Superhero in Y...
24/05/2026

At Whipton....Next week we will be learning all about superheroes. Our book of the week will be There’s a Superhero in Your Book by Tom Fletcher, our number of the week will be 10, and our Makaton sign will be superhero. Throughout the week we will explore what it means to be a superhero, with lots of rescuing, helping others, and saving the day!



At the creative table, the children will design and decorate their own superhero masks and capes. Once they are ready, we will take our superhero creations outside, where the children can practise their superhero moves and act out imaginative rescue missions together. Our small world area will become a superhero rescue zone, complete with characters, buildings, and vehicles.



During focus time, we will continue to develop our fine motor skills by practising scissor control, making snips, and cutting along simple lines. The children will also enjoy superhero‑themed colour games, matching activities, and mark‑making opportunities such as designing badges and logos.



Our Shark in the Park theme was a wonderful success, and the children fully immersed themselves in the story and its playful surprises. They showed great enthusiasm during group reading, joining in with repeated refrains and predicting what might appear through Timothy Pope’s telescope next.

At Budlake....Next week our book of the week will be sharing a shell by Julia Donaldson, our word and sign of the week w...
24/05/2026

At Budlake....Next week our book of the week will be sharing a shell by Julia Donaldson, our word and sign of the week will be share and our focus of the week will be sharing and turn taking in the environment. During adult led learning we will be making sea shell fans using paper folded backwards and forwards with our own crayon decorations added to our shells. We will be learning how to fold the paper each way and having a go at using variety of one-handed tools such as crayons, paint brushes and scissors to help us strengthen our fine motor movements. Outside we will be exploring an under the sea water tray with exciting objects to explore such as sea w**d, shells and sea animals, we will be exploring the feel of sea w**d and using descriptive language to describe what we see, smell and feel. In our continuous provision we will be exploring turn taking and sharing whilst exploring a range of resources and activities such as balls games, parachute games and small world toys.



For letters and sounds next week we will be taking part in activities such as drum outdoors this is where we explore our environment using sticks to explore the sounds different outdoor objects make such as fencing, slides and the floor. We will be talking about the types of sounds these objects make such as loud sounds, hollow sounds or deep sounds.



This week our story was whatever next and we learnt about all things space, we took a walk on the moon wearing our very own space boots where we imagined that we were in a zero-gravity environment and taking our first steps on the moon we talked about how we could get to the moon and then made our very own rockets using boxes just like in the story. outside we loved playing in the galaxy water and strengthened our fine motor movements using tweezers to pick out pom poms and collect them in bowls.

At Bovey....Next week, our number of the week is going to be 10 and the book we are going to be reading is ‘the three li...
18/05/2026

At Bovey....Next week, our number of the week is going to be 10 and the book we are going to be reading is ‘the three little pigs’. Through the week, we are going to be taking part in lots of storytelling and roleplay activities in the home corner. The children will be given the chance to reenact the story in small groups as well as helping to read the story during morning and afternoon induction.

We are also going to be working together to build different shapes and sizes of houses.

During music and movement time, we are going to be singing actioned nursery rhyme songs with numbers in, using musical instruments and playing parachute games.

During focus time, we will be working on our fine motor skills by holding pens and pencils, practising our scissor skills and threading and using the peg boards.



This week, we have enjoyed reading the story Tabby McTat and our number of the week was 9. We enjoyed getting creative by creating our own cats through arts and crafts and mark making activities. we also have been exploring our small world area and roleplaying with the animals and dolls houses.

At Whipton....Next week our book of the week will be Shark in the Park, and the children will be learning the Makaton si...
18/05/2026

At Whipton....Next week our book of the week will be Shark in the Park, and the children will be learning the Makaton sign for Shark while exploring the number 8 through counting games and creative activities.



Throughout the week, the children will be diving into an exciting under‑the‑sea theme, inspired by Timothy Pope and the creatures he thinks he can see through his telescope.

The children will be encouraged to talk about sea animals, ocean habitats, and what they think might be hiding “in the park” as they explore the story.



Our focus activities will include designing and decorating telescopes, just like Timothy uses in the book, using tubes, stickers, coloured cellophane, and collage materials. The children will also explore an under‑the‑sea small‑world tray filled with shells, sea creatures, blue sensory textures, and natural materials to inspire imaginative play and storytelling.

They will create shark and fish crafts, experiment with paint and collage, and make octopuses with eight legs to support their understanding of the number 8. We will also work together to build a bright under‑the‑sea display, where the children can add their own sea creatures, bubbles, and seaw**d while talking about what they might spot through their telescopes.



Last week we loved learning about The Three Little Pigs. The children were really engaged with the story, and by the end of the week many were confidently joining in with the key phrases. They enjoyed building houses from different materials, and retelling the story using puppets

At Honiton....This week at Honiton in the baby and toddler room we have been learning about music! In our cube we have h...
18/05/2026

At Honiton....This week at Honiton in the baby and toddler room we have been learning about music! In our cube we have had a variety of musical instruments to explore and we have been looking at the story “Animal bop”. We shared the musical instruments and used them to make lots of different sounds. We even made our own musical instruments! We used pasta to fill into bottles to make shakers, we practiced some counting as we put the pasta into the bottles. For the toddlers we gave them lids to try and screw them onto the bottles to support their fine motor skills. We had lots of fun making shakers and used them to sing along to songs.



Next week we are learning about colours and our book is called “Colours with a ladybird”. In our cube we have different coloured scarfs and blocks to help our understanding of different colours. We are going to have different coloured playdough to explore and mix together. With the toddlers we are going to be making colourful potions in the garden and mix the colours together. We are also going to make flowers using different coloured tissue paper.

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are going to be learning about recycling. Our book of the week is Somebody crunche...
18/05/2026

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are going to be learning about recycling. Our book of the week is Somebody crunched Colin. Our Makaton sign will be recycling and our number of the week is 6

At our cube times we will be talking about what recycling is and how we sort it into different bins. We will discuss why we think we need to recycle and how we can make new things from our rubbish. We will practice our sign of the week as well followed by our letters and sounds activity.

Our indoor Invitation to play will include a ocean tray with lots of rubbish in which we will need to remove using our tweezers to save the fish, we will be using our fine motor skills.

Outside we will be getting creative and reusing our recycling by doing some junk modelling we will use various materials including glue and tape as well as paint this will support our creativity and problem solving skills.

At focus time we will be practicing our cutting skills when we cut out some recycling pictures this will build on our fine motor skills. We will also test our memories playing the tray game.

This week we have been exploring shapes and colours. We have been matching the 3d shapes to the outline to make rockets. We have made colourful rainbows using different coloured paints and our paintbrushes. In the garden we have been mixing coloured water and practicing our pouring skills.

At Budlake....Next week our story is Whatever next by Jill Murphy and our word and sign of the week is rocket. In the ma...
18/05/2026

At Budlake....Next week our story is Whatever next by Jill Murphy and our word and sign of the week is rocket. In the mark making area we will be using space boots (wellies) dipped in paint to go for a walk on the moon leaving our foot prints behind for our friends to find. We will be looking at the different types of patterns our boots make and comparing the prints to others on the large paper. We will also be talking all about space and seeing if we can name any other planets in the solar system. In the construction area we will be using large boxes to make our own rockets just like in the story, we will also be using the boxes to make other vehicles of our choosing such as aeroplanes and buses. We will be using our imaginations to create stories in our play and acting out our favourite parts of the story using resources such as colanders as space helmets and hoops as steering wheels. Next week in the garden we will be exploring a galaxy water tray with planets, sequins and glitter in black water to look just like a real galaxy. We will be using language of size and measure whilst exploring the galaxy water and practising our pouring and measuring skills.



Next week for letters and sounds we will be taking part in activities such as, sound stories this is where we add in different sounds to go alongside some of the words in our favourite stories and we have carefully listen out for the word and make the different sounds when we hear them.



This week our book was called tyrannosaurus drip, we loved learning all about different dinosaurs and practised saying some of our favourite dino names such as stegosaurus and brontosaurus. In the small world area, we explored different textures in the dinosaur gloop and sand tray and uses describing words such as wet and crunchy to describe the different texture we explored using our hands. we have loved being outside this week and enjoyed giving our dinosaurs a wash in the water tray whilst learning all about how we take care of our needs and wash parts of our bodies such as our hands and hair. We have also really enjoyed exploring board games, building with the Duplo and painting this week

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Monday 7:45am - 6pm
Tuesday 7:45am - 6pm
Wednesday 7:45am - 6pm
Thursday 7:45am - 6pm
Friday 7:45am - 6pm

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