Jumping into Week 2

Reception have had so much fun this morning making the most of the rain and puddles.

Exploring the rain has many benefits in Early Years-

It’s great for building a child’s gross motor skills. 

Jumping in puddles, running about, using buckets to pour, digging in the wet soil are all fab for helping to strengthen those big muscles and just trying to keep balanced walking through mud will really help too.

It provides a different sensory experience. 

Lots of new smells, sights, sounds and touches to explore. The children particularly liked to catch the raindrops on their tongue and he children loved using chalk on the wet patio, as it goes paint like. The creativity is awesome and a great science lesson too!

It’s fun! What child doesn’t like splashing in puddles?!

It gets children outside.

Making mud pies or searching for rain loving animals like frogs or slugs and snails are always fun as is getting the children to paint with mud.  

All play is learning though so however you choose to play in the rain you will be having a positive impact on your child’s development, therefore we would like to remind you to please bring in some wellies and a puddle suit for your child to experience all of these benefits at school. If your child does not have wellies and a puddle suit they will not be able to go out in the rain. We would love for all children to have this opportunity.