OUR WORM FARM

Today Rayan, Soffiya. Hodo and Amena helped me with

feeding the worms. At first everyone wanted to see what
had happened to the food they gave them the other day. I
think they ate it all like the catapillar said Rayan. No its
not going to be gone, its still going to be there but its
going to be stinky said Amena.
We took off the first lid which exposed the rotting food
scraps and Rayan stepped back very quickly, holding his nose
he said yucky thats yucky smell teacher as he put his
fingers over his nose and mouth. See I told you teacher
its smelly Amena said reiterating what she had said a few
minutes earlier. Soffiya and Hodo looked on and although
they didnt say anything the look on their faces showed me
how curious they were as we took the second level off the
worm farm.
I picked up a small stick to move the compost around so we
could see the worms oh where have they been, there are
lots and lots of them exclaimed Soffiya. They have been
hiding under the dirt because they dont like the light,
worms only like the dark Said Amena. Hodo asked if she
could look for the worms, so I gave her the stick and she
very carefully turned the soil over exposing about fifty
little tiger worms, there was no way the other children
were game to touch them.
The children have all learnt a lot about where their scraps
of food go and how the worms manage to turn it into
compost which we can then put on our vegetable garden.
Well done kids, I was very impressed at how you have been
following our sustainability focus of this term, you have
learnt a lot and some of you have started saving your food
scraps to bring in for the worms, Mashallah.
Teacher Lynda
November 2016