We have been doing general explorations on the uses of water, the properties of water (how it can take different forms and be combined with other materials) and importance of water. We have been studying the sound, touch, taste and smell of water through a variety of experiments and used it as a tool to measure, compare, predict, and record observable changes. As we are basing our projects across a range of ages and abilities and they have taken on both a sensory and measurable form. The older children are creating and formulating questions and hypothesis (using the cycle of inquiry) around each different experience and the younger children are developing understandings through the use of their senses. This has involved a great deal of hands-on manipulation of different tools and materials. In the kindy room they have explored how water is absorbed, including through the growth of small plants and the colouring of white flowers. We found out that water sinks into the soil and gets drawn up through the stems of flowers, which we could clearly see when the white flowers took on the colour of the water in the vase. Our Pre Kindy children made a variety of solutions as they experimented with dissolving and mixing to make potions.