Pour patterns on the porch

On the porch glider with the keeper stone bucket from camp. Hand Logan one stone. Walk through the three motions together. Open palm. Cup and lift. Open hand to sky. Repeat twice. Say the verse as you go.

On the porch chair next to Logan with a board book about rocks. Name rock and lift each time.

Set three lake stones on the kitchen tray. Hand Logan a cup with two inches of water. He pours, you watch where it goes. Around the stones, between them, off the edge. Say it out loud each time. Water finds its way. Three pours. Then dry the stones with a towel and stack them on the porch rail.

On a towel beside the tray, give Caleb an empty cup and an inch of water in a bowl. Show him scoop and pour. Cup to bowl, bowl to cup. Name what he does. Pour. Splash. Wet.

On a paper towel on the porch table, set two dry stones and two stones wet from the anchor. Logan drops one drop from a dropper on each. Watch how the drop sits or spreads.

Caleb in the chair with a dry washcloth and a damp washcloth. Crinkle and squeeze. Name dry and wet.

Walk the front yard slowly. Logan picks four stones, no bigger than his palm. Put each one in the bucket. Name where it came from. By the porch step. Under the bush. By the mailbox.

Bring the morning's four stones to the kitchen sink. Logan rinses each with the tap. Set on a kitchen towel to dry. Quiet block with the sound of water running.