Water Day
A Fun and Academic Celebration
One of my favorite days during the year is Water Day. It is fun, exciting, and a great way to have parents become involved in a healthy, huge event!
This year I had 7 centers for the celebration. Each center was staffed by a parent or teacher volunteer.
The stations were: Water balloons, Writing with water, Bubbles, Bucket toss, Water table, Sponge relay, and Sidewalk Chalk
Water balloons
I didn’t get a great picture of this center – but the students were making predictions on how many times they could toss the balloon back and forth before it would break.
It was a great way to add math to our day, but it also conserved the balloons!
This center was very suspenseful!
Writing with water
This has to be the easiest Water Day activity ever – but it was the kids’ favorite!
I took all of our old paint brushes and sponge brushes, gave each student a small container of soapy water and had them write with water.
Our volunteer for this center was our Reading Coach, so she challenged the students to push themselves to write amazing things.
This student wrote “cheerful” all by himself to describe Water Day!
Bubbles
The bubble center was exciting because the children were given bubble wands of different sizes to try.
They had contests: biggest bubble, smallest bubble, and bubble that lasted the longest.
The children were excited to use “Sparkle Words” to describe the bubbles.
Bucket Toss
This game involved 4 buckets filled with soapy water and two plastic balls. The children would toss the balls into the buckets. Each time having to throw a little further to make it in. Each student had 4 chances then went to the end of the line.
The key was that they had to remember how many “points” they had.
It was a great way to reinforce “counting on” in a fun way!
Water Table
This center was an old, plastic kiddy swimming pool filled with soapy water. The children had different measuring cups, bowls, spoons and other containers. They had to predict how many “scoops” would fill each container.
Sponge Relay
In this center the kids had to fill a sponge from one bucket and run it to another bucket.
The teams had to work together and develop strategies to get the water to the other side the quickest!
This group made the most of being wet that day and started filling their shirts with water too. Needless to say, they won.
Sidewalk Chalk
This was the only center that wasn’t “wet”. We had the children illustrate and write about their favorite part of the school year on the sidewalk with chalk. It made for a beautiful decoration for the parents on the last day of school.
In this simple day, we targeted writing, math, reasoning, athletics, team-work and science! Wow! Hope you try some of these activities with your students.
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