Foundation Stage : Curriculum Topics : Water at Home : Lesson Two – Washing and Cleaning

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify different ways to use water at home to wash and clean people and objects. The class can label illustrations to indicate different ways of using water for washing or cleaning when at home.
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Learning Objectives
Answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to events. Talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
Learning Outcomes
I can answer questions about how and why something happens. I can identify uses of water at home and sort information into groups.

Washing and Cleaning
Teaching sequence to help the children identify different ways to use water at home to wash and clean people and objects

How to Clean
Template to help the children record some of the different ways that can be used to clean parts of the body or rooms in a house

Body Washing
Activity to get the children to record tools and equipment that can be used to wash different parts of the body (enlarge to A3)

House Cleaning
Activity to get the children to record tools and equipment that can be used to clean different parts a house (enlarge to A3)

Washing and Cleaning
Interactive activity to help the children identify different ways to use water at home to wash and clean people and objects
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify different ways to use water at home to wash and clean people and objects
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