This term we are learning how to stay clean and healthy and we started with learning why it is so important to wash our hands throughout the day.  We did some experiments to find out how quickly germs can spread from our hands. We rubbed different colours of glitter into our hands, then we all shook hands and we were amazed to see that after we did this we all had three different colours of glitter on our hands! The glitter was spreading from hand to hand, just like germs do.

We then washed our hands to find out why it is so important to use soap, one group washed their hands with cold water, one with warm water and one with warm water and soap. The boys and girls found that both groups that washed without soap still had glitter on their hands but the group that used soap noticed all the glitter had gone!

Our last experiment showed us what the soap does to the germs, we used pepper as our germs and we sprinkled some pepper into a bowl of water.  We then put our finger in the water and nothing happened, but when we put soap on our finger then put it in the water, the ‘germs’ bounced to the side of the bowl! We were amazed by this and had lots of fun doing these experiments.