Children investigate how water travels from one place to another and how individual drops form, combine, and move. Transport challenges, rain play, droppers, painting, and surface tests build observation and prediction while reinforcing prior work on absorption and the colour red.
What children learn
- Compare ways to transport water while reducing spills and waste.
- Observe water droplets in rain and dew and compare their shapes and sizes.
- Manipulate droplets with droppers and toothpicks and observe how drops merge or move.
- Predict and compare how water drops behave on absorbent and non-absorbent surfaces.
- Revisit the colour red through sorting, playdough, printing, and construction activities.
Key activities
- Group challenge to transport water with bottles, cups, funnels, cloth, and strainers
- Creating Water Drip paintings in zip-lock bags
- Making rain with watering cans and forming droplets on leaves with droppers
- Moving and merging water drops on plates and other surfaces
- Testing droplets on paper towel, wax paper, cloth, cardboard, foil, steel, and sponge
- Retelling *The Ant and the Dove* and making red playdough and apple prints
You’ll need
water tubs, wide-mouthed bottles, cups and containers, funnels and strainers, watering cans, leaves, droppers, plastic plates and toothpicks, paper towel, wax paper, cloth, cardboard, aluminium foil, steel plates and sponges, paint and paper, red flashcards and craft materials
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, GMD, Cognition/Literacy, FMD, and Numeracy activities.