Water Wonders - Rain

We started our new unit, Water Wonders, this week.

With a couple days of rainy days, children have had some interesting conversation about rain. Pippa, Alfie, Mila and Sophia G had a conversation about puddles outside at the playground in one afternoon.We wondered "who made puddles?" "What do we need to make a puddle?" We brought these questions inside during story time since I was reading "Mud Puddle" by Robert Munsch today. Here are some answers from the children:"I can make a puddle!" "Rain makes puddles." "We need dirt and water."

As a result, we followed children’s interests to explore more about rain this Friday. Ann read “Listen to the Rain” by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault to the children.

“How does rain sound like? Let’s listen.”

Simone: “Pitter-patter, pitter-patter!”

Jonathan & Pauline: “drip-drop, drip-drop!”

Children used crayons to draw what people would do on rainy days, what animals like rain on a piece of paper. Then children went into different centres. The children used big and small spray bottles to add rain drops on their pictures.

As well, the children used eye-droppers to make coloured rain drops. They enjoyed making rain drops and watching water drops dripping down the paper. Some children even said "pitter-patter" while they watched the water dripping down.