Snow play at Hampton!

Snow fell this week giving the children a great new experience to play with! Hlenhaze and Xanthe looked at roof of the tree house pointing at the snow and said ‘Snow is cold and makes your hands cold so you must wear gloves’. The children picked up some snow to throw around the garden, and when it made a big splat on the wall Zach was very happy pointing and saying ‘Wow!’ which made the other children laugh, prompting them to join in. Maxwell said ‘Look, look! ’ at his snow wall artwork and William and Zach filled a wheel barrow full of snow and using a dust pan and brush.

The children have enjoyed taking part in a Science themed week. The children spoke about how volcanoes worked. Ines said they were hot, referencing lava, and asked if they could touch it. Sophia answered ‘No!, it will hurt a lot’. The children made a small scale volcano, mixing the ingredients separately before combining them together making it foam out, William pointed and said ‘Wow, look, its going up!’, Emily said ‘Boom!’ As the children watch it spread out they began to laugh and Ines said ‘Oh no, its getting me!’ making the other children scream and laugh pretending it was going to get them.

Abi and Eve painted the planets and Abi painted a planet and correctly named it her ‘Pink planet’. The children also explored some oil and coloured water, Elisa named all the colours used whilst Hlenhaze and Ines noticed the oil made a circle in the water when it was added, pointing and saying ‘Circle’ and Elissa was very keen to add more. Oliver began using a spoon and decided that that wasn’t messy enough so began splashing in it instead which prompted laughter all round. The children also made a stage and puppets this week and were excited to do a puppet show. William’s puppet was running away from a hungry lion, whilst Xanthe’s wanted to make friends with it.

The younger children also explored the snow. Alba, Jasper and Lyra went to the park and picked up small amounts of snow to drop on the floor watching it break apart. Jasper and Lyra tried to make a snow man putting snow together. Alba stumbled and accidentally broke the snowman but this gave the children a new idea for a new snow game. They made different sculptures and stamped on them and kicked them over to break them up. Jasper loved this game and giggled , which encouraged Lyra and Alba make even more. On a rainy day recently the children splashed in the puddles in the park , enjoying the experience as you can see. They ended up splashing each other, and Isla found it very funny. Jessie wasn’t as amused to start , giving a small frown, but when Bodie got involved began to laugh as they held hands splashing together. Great fun!