School-Age: Water Cycle

Every year our state has a children's book awards vote for a number of children's books. One of the books that was nominated was "Water is Water" by Miranda Paul. So this week's program featured it as a nominee and we discussed the water cycle.

1. Reading
We read "Water is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle" by Miranda Paul.

The book was poetic, with beautiful imagery, and discussed a variety of ways water makes its way through the water cycle. 


2. Discussion
We discussed what the water cycle was and the different steps of the water cycle are. I showed them a short video about the water cycle but our volume on our computer is so low that I ended up narrating the video myself.

After the video, we went back over the four main steps of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. I showed them pictures of different parts of the water cycle and had them name the step. 

Then we had water cycle trivia, where the kids learned fun facts about water like how much of the Earth is covered by water or how much of the water on Earth can we drink. 


3. Craft
We experimented with water color paint this week. I have done water color with salt before and it creates a neat effect as the salt and water dries. 

Notes:

This was a super fun week and I loved seeing how creative the kids were with their water color masterpieces. Next week my library assistant, Ms. Carol, is presenting a program on constellations - and our regulars are super pumped to have her lead the program!