Wet play in the EYFS
11th May 2024
In life, it is advisable that one adapts to change quickly and makes the best of it. This is what has happened in the EYFS Unit. With the continuous and prolonged rains, the children have readily taken to wet play set up as an ongoing day to day occurrence. This has shown that the children have a good sense of adaptability. Wet play has allowed the children to explore different substances and make discoveries about them. Observing processes like floating and sinking has helped them understand the world around them. Adding a few different sizes of containers or cups to their water play area is a simple way to teach the younger children about capacity and volume. Learning about these concepts doesn’t have to be a formal teaching moment either, children will learn about the concepts of full/empty and more/less simply in their own experimentation.
Children are also integrating rhymes and they sing and hum rhymes when its raining like:
- ‘I hear Thunder’,
- ‘It’s raining, it's pouring’,
- ‘Rain Rain go away’,
- ‘1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive’,
- ‘5 little ducks went swimming one day…’.
Understanding of the World is clearly depicted when children make the connection between heavy rains and The Ark and the engineering that went into it. It was amazing to hear a child recall their holiday visit to Kilifi and say: ‘The Kilifi wells are deeper than other wells because they are closer to the Ocean!’.
