Children learn about plumbers and waste collectors/cleaners. They review letters T, L, H, and F, practice patterning, make fingerprint patterns, string beads, and prepare chana chat.
What children learn
- Describe how plumbers install and repair pipes, faucets, toilets, tanks, drains, and leaks so water can move and be stored safely.
- Recognise common plumbing tools and explore how connected pipes carry water and how different materials can stop leaks.
- Explain how waste collectors and cleaners keep communities clean by sweeping, collecting rubbish, and transporting it for disposal or recycling.
- Distinguish wet and dry waste and create, continue, and match simple patterns.
Key activities
- Connect toy pipes and pour water through them using funnels and cups.
- Explore plumbing tools and test materials for sealing leaks in bottles.
- Sort sample rubbish into wet- and dry-waste bins.
- Meet a plumber and waste collector and make straw-and-pipe-cleaner friendship bracelets.
- Observe a waste collector, then recreate sweeping and waste collection through dramatic play.
- String, arrange, complete, and fingerprint simple patterns.
You’ll need
Plumber and waste-collector puppets, toy pipes, funnels, cups and water bins, plumbing tools, bottles and leak-sealing materials, wet and dry waste samples and bins, brooms and cardboard trucks, straws and pipe cleaners, pattern mats, blocks and loose parts.
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, gross-motor development, integrated cognition/literacy or fine-motor work, and numeracy.