Reception kicked off their Science week with an experiment all about keeping clean and washing our hands. The children recapped why it is important to wash their hands and when they should do so. Each class then selected three children to place their hands in glitter, which represented the dirt and germs that may be on our hands.
The children thought about different ways they could test cleaning their hands and we came up with wiping them on a paper towel, using cold water and using warm water and soap. The children thought about the different methods and discussed which they thought would be most successful.
Then it was time to test! The children followed the method they had been given and it was very clear that warm water and soap was most effective at removing the glitter. We also discussed how long we should wash our hands for. Dina suggested counting to ten and we also tried the trick of singing 'Happy Birthday' while we rubbed the soap in to help time us.
"Dina we could count to ten." Dina
"How about we use warm water and soap." Evie
"This glitter is stuck everywhere." Paige
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