Early Learning Coalition Workshop

Join us for hands-on workshops sponsored by the Early Learning Coalition this summer!

Wonders of Our Waters

Learning about water gives early learners a meaningful way to explore the world around them while building foundational knowledge across multiple subjects. Through oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams, children begin to understand basic science concepts like movement, weather, and ecosystems. It also strengthens vocabulary as they learn new words to describe size, depth, and flow. This topic sparks curiosity and imagination. Children often connect water to their own experiences, whether it’s visiting a beach or watching rain. Studying bodies of water also introduces early environmental awareness, helping young learners appreciate the importance of caring for natural resources. Overall, it’s an engaging, relatable way to support cognitive, language, and social development all at once while demonstrating awareness of relationship to people, objects and living/non-living things in their environment, for ages 2-5+