KDH has been digging up worms. It is great fun and they know that they are good for the soil in our garden. But when the worms crawl into the soil we cannot see what they are doing....
Today is Earth Day 2013. We read Why do we Recycle and learned a little about composting with worms. We really wanted to see how the worms build tunnels and crawl through the earth.
How could we do that?
We recycled a two liter plastic bottle and a small plastic water bottle.
Cut off the top of the 2 liter bottle.
Fill the small water bottle with warm water and set it inside the two liter bottle.
Layer the bottle with sand and soil.
Go outside and dig for worms. We know how to do that! Thank you to Esther for not giving up until we had five worms.
Top the worms and soil with dry leaves and crumbs.
We already saw one worm crawling down the side of the bottle.
Wrap a dark piece of construction paper around the bottle - the worms like the dark.
Wait one to two days, and remove the construction paper.
We hope to see the tunnels made by the worms. We'll let you know what we find....
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| Making our worm house |
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| Searching for worms |
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| All Done!! |
Morah Ruth
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