Hamilton’s Hats

On Tuesday 18 March, we listened to the story of Hamilton, a pig with many hats. Hamilton’s mum thinks his interest in hats will lead him nowhere, but (unusual for a mum) she is wrong! Hamilton learns 4 important lessons from his hats. He learns to be determined, brave, patient and kind.

The children and their grown ups enjoyed the story written by Martine Oborne and the lovely illustrations by Axel Scheffler. It was new to most of the children, but will surely become a favourite. We counted Hamilton’s hats and there were so many we had to count in tens! We worked out that we needed 12 people’s fingers and toes to count them all.

Afterwards, we designed and made hats of our own, from paper plates, paper bowls and card, which we coloured and decorated with stickers, feathers and jewels. Then we learned how to make pompoms to make our own Hamilton pig complete with a hat from his collection.

We also decorated ‘piggy biscuits’ with pink icing, marshmallow snouts, white chocolate button ears and mini smartie eyes. They were yummy, and almost too cute to eat.

There is no Ziggies After School Club next week (Tuesday 25th March) due to Parents’ Evening, but we’ll be back on Tuesday 1^st April, when we’ll be reading ‘Pants’ by Giles Andreae. So if you’re in year 1 and would like to join us, please come along with your grown up and any brothers or sisters you may have. Bring a copy of the book (if you have one). We’ll be in the middle block hall from 3.15 – 4.15pm.

Hope to see you there.