Class LH blowing up a gale…. At last!!!

Class LH have continued to find out about different types of weather and climates around the world.  We have been using the Beaufort scale to measure the speed of the wind each day and rather surprisingly there has actually not been very much wind whilst we have been in school over the last two weeks.  However, our prayers have been answered and yesterday we were able to see the wind direction using the weather vanes that we have created earlier on in the topic.  We designed and created our wind vanes using lots of measuring and accurate cutting.  There was also a great deal of teamwork being shown too as we all helped each other with top tips.  We were excited to see that the wind vanes rotated easily in the gusts.    We then wrote a set of instructions about how to make a wind vane.  

We have made wind socks using recycling materials to measure the direction of the wind. 

We located 12 o’clock shadow on our sun dials.   The lack of sunshine at times allowed a great discussion about how reliable sun dials actually are and how analogue and digital clocks are far more reliable.

Using the sun dial to find 12 noon.

We have also been finding out about the types of clouds and over the last two weeks, there has been mainly Stratus cloud cover.  We have seen a couple of examples of Cumulus where we have enjoyed watching and making shapes and animals from the clouds that we have seen.

It's been a busy and enjoyable few weeks but we were so reliant on the windy weather and also sunny spells in which we have had to wait patiently for.  Well done Class LH on super work.