What's Everybuggy Reading: Sam
The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story
by Neil Waldman
The Millbrook Press, 2003
After reading about Snowflake Bentley last month, I was inspired to learn more about snowflakes on my own! This book is the story of a single snowflake over the course of one year. The snowflake starts in a gray cloud in January, melts into a water pipe in August, rushes into the ocean in October, and evaporates back into a snow cloud in December! I learned that water is always being reused by nature.
Did you know that a drop of water from your faucet might have come from Niagara Falls, or a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean? You could be washing your hands with the same water that George Washington used for his afternoon tea! Sonya thought that sounded gross, until I reminded her about the filters in water reservoirs that remove all the dirt from the water we use.
When you go outside to play in the snow, just think—you could be drinking that snowball in a cold glass of lemonade next July!
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