Today we began a study of solids and liquids by exploring water drops.  Each child had an opportunity to use a pipet to explore and observe water drops on a plastic plate.  Students made many wonderful observations.  Some of these included "when you blow on drops they connect to each other", "the drops are round", "it's not easy to put two drops really close to each other", and "if you get two drops close without touching they come together like magnet".  Lucky for us, when we went outside there were lots of water drops  and puddles, so we continued our observations.  Students noticed the puddles too were rounded, drops on the green benches were flatter than the drops we made on plates, and drops at the bottom of the slide were bigger than at the top, probably because several smaller drops traveled down the slide and  joined together to make larger drops.  We will continue this exploration in the coming weeks.