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.

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