Next week the second grade class will partake in the school’s annual science fair. The topic that they will be investigating is the weather. Each student has constructed a windsock, a rain gauge, and a cloud chart in school. Today these instruments along with a thermometer were sent home. You will also find a few different “weather watching” charts in your son or daughter’s folder. The first days have been completed on these charts here in school. Over the next four days, each student must use the weather tools sent home (the cloud chart, wind sock, rain gauge, and thermometer) to measure and record the weather. One chart records wind direction and strength, another cloud cover, and the last is for both precipitation and air temperature. Please assist your son or daughter in completing each of these charts over the next four days. On Tuesday, May 10th, all of the student’s work should be returned to school. The paperwork that they have completed can be put into a folder or simply stapled together when it is finished. I would also like the students to bring back to school their measurement tools to be displayed at the science fair along with the charts. If you have questions, please contact me at school.
