World book week and Holi at Hampton

This week, the children took part in activities for Holi. To celebrate the festival, they threw coloured paints up into air, covering themselves and the floor!  They had a lot of fun and were very enthusiastic! Xanthe jumped up and down with excitement as she watched the paint fall. James looked down at the floor and pointed as he had noticed that he had left footprints in the paint. Roma told her friends "Holi is a festival all about colours". The children then started to giggle as they noticed that everyone had brightly coloured hair. Ines chuckled and said, "I got blue hair". William shouted with excitement, "Look! I'm a rainbow". Molly waved her hands in the paint and began to sing "I'm pink, I'm pink". Eve pointed to the floor and said, "Look! All the colours are mixing. It's different colours".

The children went on a hunt for the letter "i" as this was the sound of the week. They searched high and low in the garden. Douglas found it hiding behind a branch. He picked it up and waved it in the air and said, as loud as he could, "I found it".  Following on from this, some of the children went around the garden with clipboards to see if they could find objects that start with the letter "i". Zach held up his drawing and told everyone, "I drew an ice cream; I like ice cream. It's too cold for ice cream". 

For World Book day, some of the children came dressed as their favourite book characters. They were very excited to tell their friends what character they were. During the day, the children took part in some book related activities and listened to some of the books that they had brought in to share.

This week, the babies have been exploring outdoors, taking part in different activities to play and learn. Jasper and Adeline explored the play park, climbing up the steps and sliding down the slide. Adeline loved spinning in the teacup and shouted 'weeee'. Jasper used the rocking toys, saying 'Oh!' over and over. Lyra explored outside, playing and kicking the leaves with Bodie before balancing on a fallen tree. Oliver and Zayne liked playing football in the park. Zayne kicked the ball then picked it up handing to Oliver. Oliver had fun trying to throw the ball over his head and laughing very loudly, with Jasper joining in with a big smile on his face. Douglas looked at him and said, “Silly Oliver”.

The babies were keen to explore during the sparkle time activities with the various light toys. Jasper continuously banged and bounced the ball to make it light up. Adeline was very interested in putting the light shaker on the mirror tray and even noticed her own reflection, saying, "Adeline" as she pointed to herself smiling.