Drop Travels the World

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Drop Travels the World
By Angel Star

I think that's the title??? This an awesome picture book that I use every year during our water unit. "Drop", the main character, travels the world, from the sky, to a trough, through a cow's stomach, back to the sky, down
as snow, through a river, down a waterfall, into a water treatmetn plant, into a glass of water, out as sweat on a little girl's forehead, etc. etc. etc.

My kids then write their own traveling water drop stories during writing workshop. They turn out really great!!!

I also open the unit with the song and dance that NewTeach does. It's lots of fun!!! From there, I have

the kids act out a story that I tell:
"Each of you is a droplet of water.
You are all in a puddle (the kids lay on floor).
The sun is coming out, you are starting to rise (kids start standing up).
The higher you go you are turning into vapor (raise hands over head).
It's getting cold up here (hold arms, say "brrrr").
Get together with the others and form a cloud (get in a tight group).
There's too many of us in the cloud, it's getting very heavy!
You are turning back into drops and falling to the ground. (kids fall)
You are a puddle again.

This is lots of fun. Afterward, I put 8 parts of the water cycle on sentence strips and the kids work in pairs to put them in order.