Tuesday 21 April 2009

Setting up a wormery

Teacher found 18 worms in her garden last night, and she brought them to school to show us. We got a wormery ready for them. We put layers of soil and sand in the wormery, then added the worms (they were all sizes, shapes and colours), then some grass and leaves for them to eat.
We know that worms don't like light. We saw them trying to get to the bottom of the wormery as soon as we put them in. (The bottom is safer for them, further away from birds). We hope that the worms will make tunnels through the soil and sand, so that we can see what way worms live in the soil. We might even try making our own wormeries at home.

1 comment:

Mr. Salsich said...

Hello Ms. McLoughlin,
This is Jonah Salsich responding to your comment about the kite project. Sorry it was so difficult to contact me, I will try to male it easier on the kite website.
We would love to have kite pictures from you! You can email me at jmsalsich@hotmail.com

By the way, this is another great post with lots of hands-on learning and inquiry. Your students are obviously having fun learning with you!

Jonah