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2007 Texas Reading Club Manual
Books to Show or Booktalk
A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley.
Eyewitness: Pond and River by Steve Parker.
The Missing ‘Gator of Gumbo Limbo by Jean Craighead George.
Our Time on the River by Don Brown.
Splash by Ann Jonas.
A Swim Through the Sea by Kristin Joy Pratt..
Bulletin Board
Visit Jan Brett’s Home Page, www.janbrett.com, for patterns and instructions for a
Honey…Honey…Lion! coloring mural. Cover the bulletin board with light brown or tan
paper. Print out the patterns. Let the children color them, or have teen volunteers color
them for you. Place the selected images on the bulletin board to create a water hole scene.
Be sure to make the “Hippos in Waterhole” the center of your scene and add water lilies
and other flora (scroll to the bottom of the page of patterns for these.)
Refreshments
Aquifer Parfaits
Ingredients
Vanilla
ice cream or non-dairy frozen dessert
Clear soda (such as Sprite)
Crushed plain cookies or cereal
Small chocolate or butterscotch chips
Colored sprinkles
Food coloring
Drinking straws
Clear plastic cups
Directions
Fill a clear plastic cup or parfait glass with a thin layer of crushed cookies or cereal to
represent sand and soil. Cover with a small amount of clear soda, enough to dampen the
“soil.” Add a layer of ice cream to represent the aquifer. Add another layer of “sand” or a
layer of chocolate or butterscotch chips to represent gravel. Add a layer of colored
sprinkles to represent the porous layer of topsoil. Add food coloring to a small cup of
clear soda. The colored soda will show the children how contaminants enter the aquifer.
Pour the colored soda over the parfait and watch it seep through. Give each child a
drinking straw to drill a well in the middle of the aquifer. As the children suck up the
soda, the aquifer level decreases so add more soda to “recharge.”
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