A 5-day lesson plan where children begin the water unit by exploring its properties through hands-on pouring, shape exploration, and absorption tests, alongside theme-based literacy, numeracy, and sensory art activities.
What children learn
- Identify common uses of water and discuss why people, animals, and plants need it.
- Observe that water flows, has no fixed shape, and takes the shape of its container.
- Predict and test which materials absorb, soak up, or repel water.
- Compare containers and tools that can hold, transfer, funnel, or strain water.
- Recognise and explore the colour red through familiar objects, art, and construction.
Key activities
- Exploring water through pouring, transferring, splashing, and water-toy stations
- Creating Wet on Wet paintings and observing colours blend
- Testing how water changes shape in different containers
- Comparing absorbent and water-repellent materials with droppers
- Investigating which containers and tools can store or move water
- Water-uses Show and Tell, action rhyme, and red sticker, puffy-paint, and cup-tower activities
You’ll need
water tubs or buckets, cups, bottles and assorted containers, water toys, paper, brushes and watercolours, sponges, cotton, cloth, cling wrap and foam sheets, eyedroppers, zip-lock bags, gloves, funnels and strainers, 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.