Measuring weather

Today we have been talking about measuring weather. We talked about what 'measuring' means and different ways we could measure the weather. Harry said we could measure how hot or cold it is (we remembered that this is the temperature) and Matthew said we could measure how much rain there has been. We looked at the numbers on a thermometer and talked about temperature, and we looked at tape measures and talked about how many mm or cm of snow or rain there might have been.

Then we talked about how we can measure how strong the wind is. We learned about the Beaufort Scale, which goes from 0 to 12. We acted out the different stages, from 0 (Calm, smoke rises vertically) through light breezes where you can feel the wind on your face, stronger breezes when trees begin to sway, gales where it is difficult to walk, storms where trees are uprooted and buildings may be damaged, through to 12 - hurricane.

In Play and Learn time some of us painted the Beaufort Scale by making blue paint darker and darker and painting each section a different colour. This shows us that the wind is getting stronger.

Aaron is adding the numbers 0 to 12 under each section on his Beaufort Scale.