Water Dance

Last updated Monday, March 25, 2002

Author: Thomas Locker
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Grade Level: 1st
Date(s) Used: Apr. 2000

Synopsis: Combines poetic text and dramatic paintings in an introduction to one of nature's most basic and powerful elements, depicting such images as a gentle mountain pond, a raging waterfall, a silent ocean mist, and a sparkling rainbow.

Craft ideas:

• Make a rainbow bookmark--use watercolors!
• What kinds of things use water? Draw a picture of something that uses water, or make a sailboat out of paper and float it on a construction paper ocean.
• Have each child take on a type of water--pond, storm, river, etc.--and make a construction paper costume for that type, and act out the story.