Dear Henry Green primary,
It has not been snowing where we are but it is quite chilly, despite the sun!
We had some lovely sun today- even though some of us went out huddled in coats and gloves.
It is 14 degrees (outside), hope you enjoyed the snow. We are hoping for snow this year as we had some very thick snow last year which is unusual for us as well.
Merry christmas and a happy new year!!!
Pandora S and Suki M. C. Renbourn on behalf of Harbertonford Schoolxxx

Snow is coming!!!!

The Weather today

We would first like to say that we are sorry that we have not been in torch very much. Today we have gone outside and studied the weather. Today and we must say it is very cold and mild.

Yesterday it was snowing (we don’t get snow very often)
This was a magical day. We didn’t want to go in to lunch but it was a very cold day, but
we had lots of fun yesterday.

Today we all came to school cold and wet. There is stones on the patches of ice which means we have to be very careful when we are outside.

We hope you have got good weather were you live but if not please be careful.
Please write back
Thank you for reading our report we hope you like it.
By Bobbie and Gwyneth

Dear Henry Green Primary School

The weather is grotty and cold.It is 16degrees and cloudy and rainy.
We've just done our dress rehearsal for our school play.

From JohnS and EmilyG

Today it is sunny, but it might change but even though it’s sunny it’s really cold.
Yesterday was very cold and we want it to snow for Christmas day. In school we have been making snowflakes also
We have been writing Christmas poems in a Christmas shape. You can find them on our blog henrygreenprimary.blogspot.com.
From Lucy T, Lucy P, Jordan J, Jordan Y and Ellie @ Henry Green Primary

Dear Mrs.Obayne
It is now raining. Just our luck! Our thermometer lady (Laura Peeke) has just told us that it is 12 degrees C . It is grey and misty outside. Everything is damp. It is very cold and we have to wear lots of warm clothes.from, Isabel B at Harbertonford C of E primary school.

Message from Harbertonford Primary

Email from Harbertonford Primary

Dear Mrs Obanye

Weather is Grey and rainy at the moment. Early on this morning it was sunny. At lunch time we were in and out all the time. We need warm coats and hats, scarfs and gloves. Earlier this week, we had bouts of hail. We wish it would snow rather than rain. The temperature at 3.00pm is 9 degrees C

FromIsabella K and Laura P at Harbertonford Primary School

Welcome Harbertonford!

Hello Miss Ronson and Harbertonford Primary school,

Welcome to the weather project, thank you for your email.

We look forward to hearing about your school in Devon and can't wait to see some pictures of the frost all over the fields which you mentioned.

Henry Green's Year 6

UK

Hello everyone,
Sorry we haven't been in touch but.......... the weather is really bad here.
There are floods all over the UK and the temperature has been single figures so its cold.
People have had to canoe in Cockermouth because their houses have been badly damaged by flooding!!!!
People have had to leave their houses and be rescued, they have lost their homes this has caused a lot of depression around England.
Children are finding it hard to get to school and and they are building new bridges so people can go to work, at the weekend there were hailstones.
Luckily it hasn't flooded near us!!!!

By Year 6

Water, Water everywhere and not enough to drink!

Year 6 have continued to work hard on their weather project. They have been monitoring the amount of rainfall that we have experienced over the last week and in a few days time will be ready to present their findings on this blog, in the form of graphs and bar charts. The pictures above, show the rain gauges that were made in class and some of 6G engaged in data collection.

Year 6 have also started to look closely at types of cloud and engaged in discussion about cloud coverage. They've even made links to the Great Storm of 1987. If you know someone in Year 6, you could ask them to tell you about the weather and see if there are any budding weather forecasters in our midst.

Mrs Gough

Measuring the weather

Yesterday, 6G became meteorologists for the afternoon. Using anemometers made by themselves, they went out to the school playground to begin measuring the wind speed for the afternoon of 12th November. Watch this space for bar graphs and pie charts which will show our data collection over the coming weeks.

We are back!

The weather report

Sorry we didn’t reply for a few weeks this is because we had half-term last week and the week before we had citizenship week.

Today it is damp and cloudy; there are lots of puddles also it a gloomy day.

The barometer was fairly high. What do you think the weather is like here?

Tip: search through this web site to find the answer.

By: Gwyneth and Lucy T

A Sunny Day at Creek View

The state of Georgia went from a terrible drought to 500 year flood conditions over the last several months.  These pictures show some of Ms. Shields' 3rd grade students enjoying one of the few dry days we've had.  

These pictures were taken on October 22 in our school's Outdoor Classroom also known as the garden.

The very bottom picture show you what kinds of creepy crawlies we get in our classroom when the weather is soggy for a long time! This is a large wolf spider.  They aren't poisonous but the can bite! Sometime we get snakes too!

Hello to Henry Green!  Ms. Shields told us all about her trip to visit you this summer. We are enjoying your weather blog and plan to post comments soon.

Halloween is this weekend and it looks like rain...AGAIN!

welcome to 6o todays weather report was the same but slightly more windy. it would be a good day to fly a kiite because it is more windy.

this ais a picture of our wind vanes.

by connor

Today we thought that the weather has sunny intervals.We think its climate today is 14 degrees and our barometers have gone up which means that the temperature has gone up .Our barometers are great to use when the climate changes .It wouldnt be a great day to fly a kite because you would get hardley any wind.

By Stephanie and Jahangir in 6'0

This is the weather today in our playground.

The water level in our barometers changed today too.

Would today be a good day to fly a kite?

Wind Vanes

Today year 6 have been learning about wind vanes.

A wind vane is a instrument that people use to measure the strength and direction of the wind. Meteorologist use wind vanes to tell which way the wind is blowing and to warn cities if there is going to be a storm, gail winds, a hurricane or a tornado.

We made our own wind vanes so we can measure the direction and strength of the wind, they were very hard to make.

We have also been trying to fly kites out in the wind but it was very unsuccessful today.

It didn’t work because there was hardly any wind, we were not allowed to run with it because if we did it would not have been a natural sources of wind.

From 6'O

How to make a Barometer

What you need:
One clear glass or plastic jar
One piece of transparent tube, a drinking straw is ideal
Sticky tape
A little bit of modelling clay
Some cold water
A few drops of food colouring.

Put some cold water into the jar, so that it's less than half full.

Add some food colouring, this will make it easier to make your readings.

Put the straw into the jar and tape it to the inside, so that the bottom end of the straw is in the water, but not touching the bottom of the jar.

Suck the water halfway up into the straw and pinch it to trap the water.

When you take your mouth off the straw, keep pinching it until you get the piece of modelling clay over the top to block it.

That's your barometer made.
How does it work  

The only other thing you need is some method of recording changes in the level in the straw. You could attach a piece of paper on to the outside of the jar and mark it each day, or you could use an elastic band around the jar.
 Leave in a place where it's not too draughty, and not too sunny.

When the atmospheric pressure rises, the water in the jar will be forced downwards which will, in turn force the water in the straw to rise. So,rising air pressure, rising water in the straw and vice versa. This is your first step in observing the weather patterns. As a rule of thumb, when the air pressure is rising, the weather is generally going to be "quiet and settled", generally dry. But when the pressure is falling, the weather will be turning more unsettled, perhaps with the approach of a frontal system, for instance.

Weather report

This morning we went outside to check our barometers that we made in yesterday in a science lesson. The reading was the same as yesterday which must mean it is nearly the same. Our idea of the weather was 16 degrees, not too hot and not too cold. The people who use these are called meteorologists; they use them to predict the climate of the weather. They use different types of instruments like: thermometers, satellites and anometers. In this picture it shows the weather outside in our playground.

Written by Steffi and Lucy T from 6'O

Welcome to the year 6 weather project

Welcome to the year 6 weather project

We will be taking pictures everyday up until christmas of the weather outside our window.

We will also be measuring the weather using barometers, wind vanes and a rain gauge.

We hope to link with schools in Paris, France and in Devon, England so that we can see if we have different weather.

Please leave us some comments