The Wet Book

Proposed Family Activities:

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• Unlike a story, poem collections may be read in any order we choose. Which poems do you and your child like best? You could read them over and over again, look at the illustrations together, and ask your child to pick a different poem each time.

• You may want to discuss being wet with your child: do they like to get wet? Can we manage without water? How does our family help save water?

• You may enjoy going on a puddle-and-squirting walk. Don’t forget your boots and umbrellas! When you are dry again, return to this book and read some more wet poems.

• Sometimes the rain keeps us from going outside. You may want to prepare a game box for rainy days. Ask your child to decorate an empty shoebox, and fill it up with little surprises: stickers, crayons, bubble-making tubes, and illustrated notes with ideas for family activities on rainy days (word games, book reading, baking etc.). Hide the box, and only open it when it rains!

• Has the first rain fallen yet? What will our rainfall be this year? Your child can be wait for the rain and monitor it by making a rainfall calendar with you. Every evening in winter, draw the appropriate drawing if it had rained that day. At the end of the season, you could count how many days of rainfall there were.

• Do you know any other story or poem about the rain (such as Mira Meir’s Shluli, Magafayim by Miriam Roth, or Ruth Kalderon’s adaptation of Sippur al Geshem)? You may want to look for them at home or at the library, curl up together in a warm (and dry) spot, and read them.