Experimenting, exploring, creating and communicating through the activity is more important than expecting the children to achieve an end goal - for example, successfully catching all the fish in 'Sponge fish'.
Water world
* Using a range of underwater animals, encourage the children to play with them in water or in a bowl of pretend water made of strips of crepe or cellophane paper.
* Sing little rhymes such as the one below while the children play.
(To the tune of 'Wheels on the bus') 'I have a little fish, who goes wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle,
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.
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