Water, water all around us ...

Today we looked at water and how it moves around us.

We looked at clouds ... Which show us water condensing in the atmosphere.

Note the flat grey bottoms that some of the clouds have: this shows us where condensation is happening and it is known as the dew point.

Once clouds have formed, the water droplets collide and get bigger until they fall as rain ...

It raining somewhat to the south of us in the Ashdown Forest.

The rain then lands on the ground where some of it seeks into the ground and travels downhill inside the soil. There are places where the water is forced up to the surface as a spring. It then flows as a little river into a larger river and eventually into the sea ... From whence it evaporates and the whole thing starts again!

Our dried up Spring ... Water flows from here after it has rained.

An ominous looking cloud came over us so we ran in before it could get us wet!

We put Mrs Clark and Mr Walker up the Spacenet to look for clouds ... They were looking the wrong way!