The names Waindrop,

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• The names Waindrop,

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• Walter the Waindrop!

Me!!
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And I am going to share the story of my amazing,
fantastic and interesting life with you.
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• I am part of the

WATER CYCLE!
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These are two diagrams showing what happens to me
every so often
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I live in the Atlantic Ocean.

• My address is
• 13 Saltwater Wave
• New Tide Town
• West Side Current
• Iluvh20 Itsgr8

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I have lived here for all of my life, which is 4
million years. When I turned a million I had to
start helping with the family business. I think
now might be a good time to tell you that my
parents own a shop called The Costume Cupboard
and it sells different fancy dress costumes.
That is why I am wearing a gangster costume.
This is what I really look like
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Safety First!!

• I suppose my 200th cycle started when I was in
  Safety Cycle class at School. Our teacher was
  talking to us about the importance of staying
  together during the water cycle. Although I had
  been through the water cycle many times before,
  Miss Icicle said that it would be harder to stick
  together as the population of Waindrops had
  increased due to the icecaps melting in the North
  Pole (where Santa Claus lives).

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Here we go!!

• I should have known that after Miss Icicle
  gave us a special talk it was bound to be time
  for yet another cycle. And lo and behold, the
  next morning my parents had both evaporated when
  I eventually got up. I quickly ran to school
  where all under age waindrops (under 5 million
  years that is) must go during a cycle so they
  dont get lost. Once there I saw my best friend
  Rachael. She spells here name really wrongly
  Rachael the Raindrop. Anyway heres a picture of
  her

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Evaporation time!!

• If I could describe how you feel every time
  you evaporate Id use the words horrible, dizzy,
  faint, sick, light, feathery and many others. At
  least I had Rachael nearby.
• Five, four, three, two, one, evaporation
  time!! Miss Icicle was shouting to all the
  waindrops. Then the feeling came again, that
  horrible dizzy feeling. I could feel everyone
  around me having the same problem. Groans filled
  the air and I looked around, only to see a whole
  mass of half evaporated waindrops. Miss Icicle
  was right you know, I whispered to myself.
  Theres millions more than normal. And I wasn't
  exaggerating at that. I dont think anyone had
  ever seen so many waindrops!

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Up on Cloud Nine!!

• We did it!! I shouted to Rachael.
• Yes we did she replied.
• Wed made it and we were on Cloud Nine,
  literally! Each cloud has a number so we can
  identify where we are. I love it when we are up
  in the clouds because we can cool down and
  condense which is sooooooo much better than
  evaporating as it doesnt hurt one little bit.
• Look, its my parents, I said to Rachael.
  Theyre talking to someone else. Oh look, its
  your parents talking to them!
• Lets go and say hello!" Rachael suggested.
• And so we did.

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Falling Down

• I think the next part of the cycle is the
  best. This is the part when you fall as rain or
  snow or sleet after condensing, which everyone
  had already done. The posh word for all that is
  precipitation. I normally fall as rain but once
  I fell as sleet and that was good fun.
• Miss Icicle was calling out our names and
  telling us what we were going to be. Rachael!
  You are going to fall as sleet! Walter! You are
  going to fall asSNOW!!!
• Yes! I shouted. Thats the only thing I
  havent fallen as!
• What luck Rachael whispered from behind me.
  Ive fallen as sleet once but I dont mind doing
  it ag.
• She stopped as she gently fell out of the
  cloud. See you down there I screamed after
  her.
• After that it was my turn, I dropped slowly
  and peacefully. Whilst I enjoyed a bit of
  relaxation, I could feel myself freezing over to
  become snow!! It was soooooo exciting!!

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Ill be coming round the mountain when I come!!

• Landing as snow is better than rain or
  sleet!! Youre so much softer when you are snow.
  When you land on the mountains, its like
  landing on a great big cushion. Once safely on
  the ground I started to melt into water again as
  I knew I would. I then began to look for Miss
  Icicle and Rachael, both of whom had fallen as
  sleet.
• Within a few minutes the entire school group
  was reunited and we followed Miss Icicle as she
  led us down the mountain. Whilst trickling down,
  Miss Icicle told us that we were forming a little
  stream. How weird to think of us as a spring!

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Rollercoaster time!!

• We are a part of a group of waindrops that do
  something called surface runoff. This means we
  run down and along the surface of the ground
  instead of going underneath. Whilst we run down
  the mountains as a stream, we erode the ground
  around us. There are different ways of doing
  this, the one I use most often is called
  hydraulic action and it is when you force
  yourself into the cracks in the rocks. Its a
  bit like a scary rollercoaster, but its good
  fun. Normally we are only allowed to do this
  with Miss Icicle as it can be a bit dangerous but
  today she said Rachael and I could have a go
  ourselves. I wonder what itll be like

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Disaster

• The worst thing possible has just
  happened!!
• Whilst Rachael and I were doing some hydraulic
  action, a huge lump of sand came rushing past and
  poor Rachael got wedged into the rocks we had
  been eroding. She had been wedged in so far that
  she could not get out no matter how hard she
  tried. I quickly alerted Miss Icicle and she
  found some other important people who came to
  help. The group of adults were pulling and
  pulling at Rachael for ages whilst I bit my
  fingers in anticipation. Would they be able to
  get her out? Nobody knew.

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Safe again!!

• After what seemed like a lifetime, Rachael
  was free!!!!! I was so overjoyed and I made a
  vow never to do anything dangerous like that ever
  again on my own. Inevitably, Miss Icicle would
  not let anyone leave her side, especially Rachael
  who was only too happy to stick to Miss Icicle
  like glue.

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Making Friends!!

• After our little stop, we carried on down the
  mountains until we got to the bottom. We then
  continued travelling along almost-flat ground.
  By this time we had picked up various bits of
  rock and sand by eroding and were transporting
  them to the sea. A few other groups of waindrops
  joined us and together we made a little river.
  Miss Icicle told me that the groups that joined
  us were tributaries and that the place they
  joined us is called a confluence. I spoke to
  some of the new waindrops and they seemed very
  nice.

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Approaching the sea!!

• There was a lot less individual room after the
  join and it was really hard to hear yourself
  think, with all the noise going on. Even so, we
  kept going and before long we were on completely
  flat ground. It was a lot harder to flow once we
  got onto the flat land and you got very tired
  much quicker. A short while later a loud cry
  broke through the noise Look, its the sea!
  He was right, for a few miles ahead the ocean
  sparkled at us invitingly. We were almost home!

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The arrival!!

• We were soon at the mouth of our river, but
  not before a few other tributaries had joined us.
  After we had left the river and joined the sea
  at our delta, we deposited all of the sand and
  rocks at the bottom of the ocean. We then went
  our separate ways and rushed home to see our
  parents who had arrived soon before.

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The End
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This presentation was made using Microsoft
PowerPoint Produced and edited by Jenny
Blackburn Pictures drawn by Jenny
Blackburn Walter would also like to thank Mr
Blackburn - for his help with some
technicalities Mrs Blackburn - for her help with
opinions and technical information. Mrs Jordan -
for teaching Jenny about rivers so she could
write about me and Miss Icicle - for saving
Rachaels life a JENNY BLACKBURN
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