Our World - Water

On the second day, Hashem created water. What is water? Friends said that water makes us wet, we drink water, we give water to animals and we water plants. Morah said that water gives us the fastest way to cool off, the fastest way to get clean. We learned that water is liquid (something that we can pour); it doesn't have shape. It always the shape of the thing that's holding it.  Water likes to stick to some things like paper towel, rags, even our clothes.

 Does water stick to everything? We put a large drop of water on the waxed paper. Lifting the paper we observed the drop slided off. The paper was not wet. Morah told us that water doesn't wet wax and fat. As a matter of fact, duck's feathers are coated with a kind of grease that keeps duck dry after it dives  under the water.  

We learned that water is one of the things that get used again and again. It keeps going around and around- we call the "Water Cycle". We learned the song about it.
TTTO She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain
Water travels in a cycle, yes it does.Water travels in a cycle, yes it does.It goes up as evaporation,Forms clouds as condensation,Then falls down as precipitation, yes it does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePSJU3Qm41E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cb3SIMRCIE
 Next week, we are going to learn more about water cycle, about different properties of water and how it can be changed from liquid to solid matter, and then to gas.