Our Weather Watchers

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

We have a weather stick in our class.  It has a thermometer on it to tell how hot or cold the day is, we have a wind kite to tell whether the wind is blowing or not, and roughly how fast it is blowing, and we have a rain gauge to tell how much rain falls during school hours.  Each day the class leader (ceannaire) puts out the weather stick, reads it at home time, and fills the weather calendar in the classroom.  It is a busy job!

Friday, 30th September, 2011

We have been keeping an eye on the weather.  Every day we put out our weather stick, with a thermometer, rain gauge and flower kite.  Before home time we check the temperature, amount of rain that fell during the school day and how windy it is.  We record these on our daily weather chart.  

Today we took all this information and made a data chart.  We talked about the type of weather most and least common this September, the amount of days with each weather type, and how many more or less days of one kind than of another.  Here are our results:

We will make great weathermen and women when we are older!