Splashing into Summer!

Laurence Avenue welcomed summer with an excited splash during their first Water Play Day on Monday, June 21st. Little bodies wearing sunscreen, swim suits and water shoes could be found jumping into puddles, splashing in the water table and filling buckets from the sprinkler.

The slow steady stream of water coming from the sprinkler become a testament of a determined preschooler's patience. Many of them stood with their buckets underneath the falling water droplets until they were almost too heavy to carry. Then they dumped the water from their buckets into the water table. Once the table had a couple of inches of standing water, the kids took turns removing the plug. They watched the water spiral through the small hole back onto the playground and learned a new word, "cyclone".

Puddles of water were encouraging to several of the kids and they repeatedly jumped into them. They were helped to discover that the deeper the water and the harder they jumped, the bigger the splash they made. They also realized that the splash made from their feet was vastly different than that made by a ball; and the splash from a large ball was different than that of a smaller ball.

Our first Water Play Day was warm, wet and full of learning experiences. The children are already excited for the next Water Play Day, next Tuesday.