The Water Cycle, Yo.

Kids don't get as much poetry as they should. Also, they think they don't like poetry. BUT, they like rap.

So, to build their vocabularies, and to enhance their poetry analyzing skillz (yes, with a z), I used a water cycle "rap" to knock their socks off. You ready for this?

Ah-hem.

Precipitation births every nation
Warm, wet rain without consternation
Flora and fauna, bursting with elation
While the people rain dance
Below the constellations

Wishing for a desert aberration
For sleet, snow, hail there’s no occupation
See the rain come down like liquid lamination
While the cacti expand in slow animation

Heat beats down and evaporation
Turns wetness to a vapory creation
Till the cool clouds come and
End their vacations
Creating dew & droplet unification

Condensation in isolation
Where the heat meets cold in great determination
Think of it as steam simplification
Yeah, the mist clumps up in great harmonization

Precipitation, cloud perforation
Water falls fast without coordination
And it all cycles on without discrimination
To the water cycle, I make this dedication.

Kids were pounding out beats on their desks and cracking up at this white girl from the midwest rhyming fast and furious. One kid actually shouted out "Daaaaaaaamn, Miss J!"
That's RIGHT.

Of course, another had to pipe in "Rap artists don't use such big words." YEAH WELL, they do if they're INTELLIGENT. Shoot. Now I have to go find some intelligent hip hop to prove them wrong....

Later, as I read some of my kids water cycle booklets, I saw one kid had written condensation as "condomsation". Well, just can't beat that, can ya?