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The Brilliant Pandas have been continuing our unit of inquiry on how to keep ourselves healthy. This week, the focus was on hand washing and good hygiene. We discussed when we should wash our hands and why it is important to do it properly. To symbolise how germs spread, the children put a glitter mixture on their hands, symbolising the germs, and then the class shook hands with one another. The children were shocked to see how much the ’germs’ had spread around the class. To investigate the best way to wash our hands, the class experimented using different water temperatures with soap or not. First, we hypothesised what would happen, and after the experiment, we compared our predictions to what actually happened.