GATHERING TIME

2:55-3:10 p.m.
Transition
Muddy Water Puddle
Children will dance and do the motions to the music. Hap Palmer, Yellow 4, Song 8
To settle children, they will all pretend to sit in a muddy puddle and take a rest.
Description
Materials
Activity Name
1. Water in rivers,
Hold up and show children the raindrop. This is Randy, Robert, Rosemary
lakes, or oceans
Randy the raindrop, can everyone say hi?
(IWP)
goes up because
Randy comes from the clouds high in the sky.
of evaporation and Randy has lots of friends that live with him in
Clouds (IWP)
forms clouds, and
the clouds. Put them onto the clouds on the
then it comes
felt board, Here are 2 of his friends, Robert and Ground with tunnels.(IWP)
back down as rain
Rosemary. Randy, Robert and Rosemary have
or snow.
lots of friends, and sometimes the clouds get
so heavy because of their friends, that they
just fall out of the clouds. Put the raindrops on
the ground. When this happens it causes
precipitation to come from the clouds, and we
call it rain. Can everyone say precipitation?
Say it together as a class. Precipitation is
another word for rain. So in this bowl I have
some shaving cream. Were going to pretend
that the shaving cream is clouds that we have
in the sky, and then I will pour some food
coloring onto our clouds. Now, as Im doing
this, you have to be as still as a cloud. Can
everyone show me how still clouds are? OK!
Now lets pretend that the food coloring is
water drops in the clouds, and we will watch to
see what happens! We have to watch it as we
sit here!
2. As raindrops or
As Randy and his friends come down from the
Underground piece (IWP)
snowflakes hit the
clouds, they hit the ground. The dirt absorbs
ground, it flows
water, and eventually as it keeps absorbing the
through tiny
raindrops, it fills up the tiny tunnels that are
tunnels in the
underground. Place tunnels on the ground
ground, creates an piece on the board. To find out where our water
underground pool. goes to in the tunnels, we have to sing a song.
It goes, Raindrop, raindrop whered you go,
give me a peek of where you flow. Ok lets
practice one time! Alright I think were
ready! We have to sing it 2 times to find out!
Sing it twice, and then uncover the
underground pool. Alright boys and girls, all of
our raindrops went into the underground pool.
What do you think happens after the water is
in this big pool underground? Let them answer.
3. People place
**For this, Im making a bowel of dirt, and I will Bucket of water
pipes into the
have dirt on top of a screen, and then pour
Clear pipes
ground, all the
water through it, and the children will watch as spray bottle
way down into the the water collect into the bottom of the
Pitcher of water.
underground pool, container. I will then place pipes into the
and the water is
underground water, and push it through using
pushed up through the pressure from the spray bottle. **
the pipes and into
Show children the bowl with the dirt and

the water storage

tower, and then
pushed through
pipes into our
houses.

screen. When I pour the water on the dirt, lets

all watch as it goes to the bottom, under the
dirt. After this, connect the spray bottle to the
pipe. Now, Im going to put this pipe into the
underground water, and this spray bottle will
use pressure to push the water up through
these pipes! This is what happens in Rexburg.
We have a huge water tower on the hill, and it
builds pressure, and then it pushes it through
pipes, and into our homes! **as I tell the story,
I will have the children pretend to pour the
water, and then they will all stand up, and
pretend to pump the water with me.