Following on from their art work depicting winter weather, those in the Raindrop Room created their own clouds and rain as part of an experiment to help them understand where rain comes from. Using coloured water helped them to see the rain filling the clouds of shaving foam and making its way through to the beaker as if rain were falling.
As you can see, the children were very enthusiastic to participate in this experiment and showed some good understanding.
Ella: rain falls from the sky, from dark clouds. The dark clouds come and they pour rain over us. Light coloured clouds don’t have rain in them.
Violeta: rain comes from the sky. It feels like water.
Kyla: rain comes from the clouds.
Marnie: rain falls down the roof. Rain comes from clouds.
Lola: wear a jacket in the rain ’cause you’ll get wet.
Fern: rain comes from the clouds. It’s wet. Coats keep you dry and an umbrella.
Sophie E.: rain goes on your window. The other day it was pouring down so loud. It comes from the clouds. Some break apart and go little or big and some don’t have rain. In a thunderstorm it goes all crazy and crashes and bangs. When it’s too heavy and the cloud can’t hold the water, it starts to rain.
Kara: rain makes everything wet. It comes from the sky from the clouds. The rain falls to make plants grow. The water in the clouds comes from the sea.
Tilly: rain falls in storms. Some are a little drop and some are big squirts. It makes mud on the ground.
