Our third day of learning outdoors was sunny and hot...23 degrees. We needed our shelter to keep us cool.
We read books about earthworms and learned some interesting facts. We found some middens (Lumps of earthworm poop on the surface of the ground above their hole.) We wrote about their life cycles. In the afternoon we each got an earthworm and tried to convince them to move to the other side of our paper. It was hard to keep our papers moist today. We measured our earthworms with paper clips. Then after washing up we got gummy worms to compare to the living earthworms. The gummy worms were about 3 paper clips long but the earthworms were mostly about 2 clips long. The think the gummy worms were sweeter but we only ate the gummy worms.
Later, we played decomposition tag as a whole group. The teachers provided a little refreshing "rain" for the living creatures.
We read books about earthworms and learned some interesting facts. We found some middens (Lumps of earthworm poop on the surface of the ground above their hole.) We wrote about their life cycles. In the afternoon we each got an earthworm and tried to convince them to move to the other side of our paper. It was hard to keep our papers moist today. We measured our earthworms with paper clips. Then after washing up we got gummy worms to compare to the living earthworms. The gummy worms were about 3 paper clips long but the earthworms were mostly about 2 clips long. The think the gummy worms were sweeter but we only ate the gummy worms.
Later, we played decomposition tag as a whole group. The teachers provided a little refreshing "rain" for the living creatures.