old mother raincloud

Today it is rainy… and I have been waiting for a rainy day to read the Enki story for handwriting.  Drew makes some of his letters from the top down– but still a few from the bottom up– and this story plays with that concept.
"Little r rushes out of bed and ripples and rolls and romps out into the sky. With a rumble and a roar, she races right down to the ground.  But she hits so hard that she bounces right back up"
The story also weaves in a bit of science
"Old mother raincloud sent out all her children.  She's faded away and the sky is turning blue.  The great golden sun is calling her children; they rise from the earth as the fog and the dew"
Tomorrow I will pull out our felt board and I am curious as to what they will create from the story. 

After we read this story we started making our first Christmas gifts for the year.  Soap … soap and more soap.  It was a little tricky to work with, but lots of messy fun nevertheless.