Areas of Learning: Creative Development, Knowledge and Understanding of the World.
Context: Exploring the topic of water.
Learning Intentions: To listen with enjoyment and respond to stories, songs, rhymes and poems (CLL).
Investigate materials by using all the senses as appropriate (KUW).
Find out about and identify the uses of everyday technology (KUW).
Explores colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions (CD).
To move with control and coordination (PD).
Success criteria: I can sort materials in different ways.
I can describe materials.
I can move in different ways to the music or rhyme.
I can experiment with different media.
Key Vocabulary: water, ice, boil, steam, freeze, melt, heat, clear, dissolve, liquid, float, sink, material, waterproof, wet, dry, rain, snow.

Activity One:
You will need: Digital microscope, materials.
Use the digital microscope to explore different materials. Identify similarities and differences and sort the materials into groups. Use waterproof materials to make an umbrella or a coat for Nelligan ‘The Pig in the Pond ' (Martin Waddell).

Activity two:
You will need: water music, tape recorder, digital movie creator, Commotion in the Ocean (Giles Andreae).
Listen to Commotion in the Ocean and explore how each character would move. Then record children's movements using the digital movie creator. Play these back and try to guess which character they are representing.

Activity One:
You will need:kettle, water, measuring jug, cups, jelly, freezer, ice cube trays.
Talk about how to use a kettle safely and what happens when the water boils. Make jelly using boiling water.
Talk about what things feel like when they come out of the freezer and what would happen to objects if they were left out and not put back in the freezer. Fill ice cube trays with different colour juices and freeze. Predict what will happen when these are put into and taken out of the freezer. Children can taste the different flavour juice cubes.

Activity Two:
You will need: You will need: oven, biscuit ingredients, icing sugar, water, digitial weighing scales.
Talk about using everyday ICT when baking biscuits. For example batteries in the weighing scales, turning the oven on and off, setting a timer to know when the biscuits are ready.

Activity three:
You will need: IWB, bubble game.
Use the mouse to click on the bubbles to make them burst developing fine motor control skills.

Activity One:
You will need:coloured card or paper, water based paints (thinly mixed), paintbrushes, icing sugar.
Cover the paper or paper shapes with paint. Then find out what happens when you sprinkle icing sugar onto the paint.

Activity Two:
You will need: paint mixed with water and washing up liquid, straws, paper or card, bubble maker, bubble wands.
Explore mixing paint with water and washing up liquid to make bubble pictures.

Activity three:
You will need: tray, gelatine, sequins, tweezers.
Develop fine motor skills using tweezers to pick up sequins.

Outdoor area opportunities:
Create bubbles using different size and shape wands.
Use a bubble maker to blow bubbles.
Explore controlling remote controlled toys in the water tray.

Thinking Questions:
What do the materials look like under the digital microscope?
Which is the best waterproof material? Why?
What happens when the water boils in the kettle?
What do you think will happen when you place juice cubes in the freezer?
What will happen when you sprinkle the icing sugar on the paint?
How do you know that you have got enough flour?
What is the biggest bubble that you can blow?
Do bubbles always burst?

Plenary/Recall:
Can you talk about the types of everyday technology that you have used?