The Crow and the Pitcher · Reading Room #9 | Will the Water Rise? | Avery's Toolbelt

In the book of old stories there's a crow who can't reach the water at the bottom of a jar, so it drops in stones until the water comes up. Avery says that's not true. Stones sink. Sinking is down. She has a whole argument ready, and she delivers it standing up. Mom doesn't disagree. She just gets a jar. Mom fills it, Avery draws a line on the glass at the top of the water, and Dad brings in gravel from the driveway, washed and dried. Then Avery drops the stones in, one at a time, and counts. Gus arrives at stone twenty-two with a theory: the stones are drinking the water. What children find out: the stones don't soak the water up. They take up room at the bottom, so the water has nowhere to go but up. And real birds in the crow family have been tested doing it. For grown-ups: an episode about being completely sure and then checking - and having to tell the whole house the book was right. "You were so sure. And then you got a jar." The Crow and the Pitcher is a traditional fable, retold here. Avery's Toolbelt is a calm, hands-on show for ages 3-6: real tools, real cars, real kitchens, and a grown-up's hands on anything that's hot, sharp or moving. 老故事書裡有一隻烏鴉，喝不到罐子底下的水，所以牠把石頭一顆一顆丟進去，直到水升上來。Avery 說那不是真的。石頭會沉下去。沉就是往下。她準備了一整套說法，還站起來一條一條說給大家聽。 媽媽沒有反駁。她只是拿出一個罐子。媽媽裝水，Avery 在玻璃上畫一條線，標出水面的位置，爸爸從車道撿來碎石子，洗乾淨、擦乾。然後 Avery 一顆一顆把石頭放進去，一邊數。Gus 在第二十二顆的時候出現了，馬上有一個理論：石頭在喝水。 孩子會發現：石頭沒有把水吸掉。它們佔掉了罐子底部的空間，所以水沒有地方去，只能往上升。而且真的有人測試過，烏鴉家族的鳥兒真的會這樣做。 給大人：這一集講百分之百確定，然後去檢查——還要跟全家人說，書是對的。「妳那麼確定。然後妳拿了一個罐子。」《烏鴉喝水》是一則傳統寓言，這裡是重新改編的版本。