Foundation - Grade 2 resources

• Meet Western Water's education team: Alice, Alison, Sammy the Snake and Frances the Frog. Watch the video on YouTube.
  
  
• Storytime and singalong with Sammy the Snake and Frances the Frog: Join our team for some watery stories and songs. Explore the reasons why drinking water is important. Watch this video on YouTube.
  
  
• Good hygiene and keeping healthy: Join us to learn how to wash your hands properly to help fight germs and keep healthy. Watch this video on YouTube.
  
  
• Water for health: Drinking water is important. It helps us maintain good health, keeps up our energy levels and enables us to think clearly. Join Sammy the Snake to learn all about Water for Health and what goes into a sugary drink. Watch this video on YouTube.
  
  
• Water wise at home: Are you a Water Warrior or a Water Waster? Discover the many ways we use water in and around our homes, and how we can all become Water Warriors. Watch this video on YouTube.
  
  
• Exploring weather and the water cycle: Water is a precious resource and used every day in so many ways. Our clever planet is constantly recycling and renewing our water in a continual process called The Water Cycle. Watch this video on YouTube.
  
  
• How water gets to your taps, including make-your-own water filter activity: Ever wondered where our water comes from and how it is cleaned and delivered to you? Western Water proudly plays a very important role in this process. Watch this video on YouTube.
  
  
• Don’t flush it!: Watch this entertaining video to learn what not to flush down the toilet. Watch this video on YouTube.
  
  
• Yoga, mindfulness and the five stages of the water cycle: Join us to experience the water cycle through gentle yoga movements. Watch this video on YouTube. 
  
  
• Star meditation: This star meditation calms the mind, and can be done at any time. It helps to improve wellbeing for everybody and it’s so easy to do. Watch this video on YouTube. 
  
  
• Mind and body relaxation using yoga: Doing this short mindfulness exercise and a few simple yoga stretches throughout the day can help to relieve tension in your body and keep your mind calm and alert. You can undertake these exercises anytime. Watch this video on YouTube.
  
  
• Journey of a water droplet relaxation: Get comfortable, close your eyes, and be taken on a relaxing journey through the water cycle. Watch this video on YouTube.

These activities are available for the duration of the Online Learning Festival.

• Join Sammy's Waterwise Club: Free to join and open to all primary school aged children, you will receive a welcome pack, a birthday card each year and can enter Sammy's competitions to win some fun prizes! Visit our online form or download a printable form1MB.
  
  
• Warrior Bookmarks (Literacy): Create your own bookmarks using our template and share water saving messages with friends and family. Download the activity sheet360KB.
  
  
• The Water Cycle Collage (Science, The Arts): Watch our Exploring Weather and the Water Cycle video. Use a variety of materials to get creative and produce your own collage of the water cycle. Download the activity sheet2MB.

These activities are available for the duration of the Online Learning Festival.

• Healthy food stories (Literacy): Read aloud to your class, share our magical story about the Apple Star and discover a wonderful surprise along the way! (Make sure you are prepared with a fresh apple to share with your class – you will need it as part of the story!) Learn about how water is so very precious for all life on Earth. Download the activity sheet3MB.
  
  
• Make a healthy hydrating snack plate (Health): Use a variety of fresh, hydrating foods to make delicious platter or a funny fruit face and gobble it up! Download the activity sheet3MB.
  
  
• Healthy eating paper plate (Health, The Arts): Using collage materials, craft glue and a paper plate, make a plate of healthy food choices. Share with your siblings, friends or classmates - did you make the foods as colourful and healthy as possible? Download the activity sheet3MB.

These activities are available for the duration of the Online Learning Festival.

• Watery Puzzles (Literacy, The Arts): Solve the Tap Maze and work out which letters are missing from Sammy’s important message. Colour Sammy in and create a poster. Download the activity sheet3MB.
  
  
• Kitchen Science - Make a Cola drink activity (Science, Health): Watch our Water for Health video. Complete a teacher demonstration to make a Cola drink following our instructions. Discuss why water is the best choice for healthy bodies! Download the activity sheet2MB
  
  
• Make your own water filter - teacher demonstration (Science): Follow our instructions to make your own simple water filter. Students can draw a simple diagram of the filter. Discuss how lucky we are to have fresh, clean drinking water readily available in our homes and community. Download the activity sheet2MB.

These activities are available for the duration of the Online Learning Festival.

• Sammy’s chatterbox: Print, make and use our Water Chatterboxes to learn about water and have fun with your classmates. Have a go at making your own Water Themed Chatterbox. Download the activity sheet3MB.
  
  
• Water Cycle art (Science, The Arts): Create a digital or hand drawn art piece which shows the three main stages of the water cycle - evaporation, condensation, precipitation. Watch our Exploring the Weather and Water Cycle video to help you.
  
  
• The Water Cycle Song (Science, Digital Technologies, The Arts): Teach the water cycle song to someone in your family, or record yourself singing or rapping it and send it to family or friends - "Water travels in a cycle, yes it does! Water travels in a cycle, yes it does! It goes up, evaporation…makes clouds condensation, it comes down, precipitation...yes it does!!". Watch our video.

These activities are available for the duration of the Online Learning Festival.

• Become a meteorologist (Science, Literacy, The Arts): Track the weather for a week and draw or write about what you observe each day. Choose the day with the most interesting weather and film yourself presenting a short weather report! Try to include a funny weather joke to make people laugh.
  
  
• Make a simple rain gauge (Science): Use our instructions and find out how much rain falls in your area. Download the activity sheet428KB.
  
  
• Water mindfulness colouring (Yoga and Mindfulness): Watch our Yoga and Mindfulness video. Take some deep breaths, find somewhere relaxing to sit, and use your favourite textas or pencils to complete our mindfulness colouring activity. Download the activity sheet3MB.

Spend some time over the weekend enjoying your local waterways and natural environment, having fun with water and making some family goals to become more waterwise and sustainable at home!

Enjoy these activities and resources with your friends, family and community.