Yellow class- Why it's important to wash your hands

Yellow class learnt about how washing our hands is the best way to stop germs from spreading. We thought about all of the things that we touched today — from pencils and toys to the toilet and door handles. Maybe we blew our nose in a tissue and then went outside to dig around the dirt.

Whatever we did today, we came into contact with germs. It's easy for a germ on our hand to end up in our mouth. We thought about how many foods we eat with our hands. We can't wear rubber gloves all day long, but we can wash our hands so those germs don't get a chance to make us or someone else sick.

Have a look at the science experiment we did today that involved pepper (germs), water and soap. When liquid soap is added to pepper and water, the pepper moves away from the soap just like using soap removes germs from your hands.

3JI Mirror Experiments

In Science today we experimented with how light reflects off shiny surfaces, such as mirrors. We discovered that when mirrors reflect an image it appears to be reversed. 

Firstly we wrote messages on the whiteboard and only using them mirror, we had to work out what they said. Afterwards, Miss Irvine set us the challenge of walking along a wavy line in the playground, but we weren't allowed to look at it! We had to look at the reflection in the mirror and work our way along it! We found this enjoyable but tricky! 

 

3JI Magnet Finding!

As part of our topic of Forces and Magnets, 3JI experimented with magnets and what it would attract around the room. There was a lot of confusion as to why it would stick to some metal objects but not others. The class were particularly shocked at the fact the magnet stuck to a part of the wall!

Science week Yellow class! Slippery slopes!

In this activity the children compared the journeys of different household liquids as they move down a slope. They predicted which one would move the fastest and how it will move.

We used water, hand gel, milk and washing up liquid.