Jewish Life Digital Edition October 2015 | Page 67

BROUGHT TO YOU BY

BUSY BRAIN MAZE

song: Rain

Sung to: “Row, Row, Row
Your Boat”
Rain, rain, falling down,
Landing all around.
What a lovely sound
you make
Splashing on the ground.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Help the raindrop find its way
through the umbrella

TOT SPOT

BY MICHELLE VINOKUR

RAINDROPS

Ruby was always fascinated with rain. When she was
young, she used to splash and jump in the puddles while
it rained. When she got older, she used to watch the
raindrops fall on the swimming pool water and wonder
where the raindrops came from. One day she decided to
ask her teacher how rain was made. Her teacher waited
until it rained to explain. When the rain started, Ruby’s
teacher took the class outside. All the children put on
their rain boots, rain jackets and rain hats. The teacher
got the children to play in the rain to show the children
that rain was not frightening, but lots of fun. When the
rain stopped and the sun came out, the teacher got the
children to observe what happened to the water on the
hot bricks.
“Look!” said Ruby “There is steam.”
“Correct” said the teacher. “The bricks were so hot that
when the water landed on the bricks, it formed steam.”
Ruby asked the teacher, “What does this have to do
with rain?” The teacher explained to Ruby that this shows

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the process of how rain comes to be. The heat of the sun
warms up the water, which makes the water form little
water drops called water vapour. “What happens to the
water vapour?” asked Ruby.
The teacher explained “The water vapour travels up
through the air until it reaches high in the sky. The water
vapour then turns into clouds. The more the water vapour
collects, the heavier the clouds get. When the clouds get
very heavy, it begins to rain.”
“Wow!” said Ruby. “ Q