Springtime at Hamptons!

The children have been getting very excited about spring, looking at weather, animals and flowers that surround us at this lovely time of year. They are fascinated by our new wormery as you can see, and watch closely as the worms tunnel their way around. On one of their walks, they saw lovely daffodils, and Ines and Hlenhaze gently felt the leaves. Xanthe then saw a special daffodil, she shouted ‘Its white and orange!’ and the children then ran over to see it. As the children walked to the woodlands they saw some lovely animals on the way. Jasper pointed out all of the dogs, pointing and saying ‘dog’ whilst barking which gave the other children the idea, to run around and bark at one other. Nyra spotted the horses and encouraged all of her friends to have a look, and they decided that the horses were much bigger than dogs ! They walked over the bridge and they saw some lovely ducks in the river. William and Elissa played with some small sticks throwing them into the lake and watching them float down the stream, and made this into a race watching whose stick won. They planted some seeds and spoke about how things grow. Maxwell was very happy when he planted the potatoes, talking about different lunches that contain potatoes, which prompted excitement for lunchtime! There are labelled pictures of the produce to expect form the seeds and the children were matching the seeds to the pictures, Zach said that the plants will grow tall, and Emily said that they will grow taller than Zach who replied ‘No, I’m so tall!’ and this made the children laugh as they looked at who was tallest among them.

The younger children also went to the park to look at the daffodils. They felt the texture of the flowers, and Alba accidentally knocked off a loose leaf and said ‘Uh-oh’ before picking it up and giving it to her friends. Some ducks came to say hello at this point, and Ciana was very excited to see and began to go towards them which prompted the ducks to waddle off. This made some of the other children laugh as they tried to make quacking sounds. Isla was more interested in the dogs and would stop to look at them, pointing and shouting ‘Dog! Emma laughed whenever she saw one. Back in the nursery, the little ones explored the musical instruments. Grace loved to shake them whilst George like to bump the them on the floor. At first Sidney was unsure on the noises, then he began to enjoy it and dance along. Bodie and Jessie likes to play with the food, making each other dinner and passing the plate round to each other to share. Jessie was very happy when she received her food from Bodie and gave him a broccoli in return. Honor and Edward looked for some lovely animals in the hay and as they found them threw them on the floor, and as each one threw them on the floor the other one laughed.