Digging for Worms!

Since the students loved our caterpillar, we asked them what else we could find outside. Amelia said "worms." What will we need? The students said we would need things to dig with. Carter said, "there are shovels in the sand centre."

Off we went:

Alex told us that "worms are so good, but not to eat, but because my brother has 1000 worms."

 When we were not finding many worms Jake said to "dig deeper where it is wet"

 The students told us that for a worms home you need grass and dirt.

Alex told us that this was the first time he touched a worm. When asked what it felt like he said, "a little bit squishy."

When Mark found a worm he told me "I have to put it in the bucket"

 

 

We brought the worms inside and took a closer look:

 

Jaiden told me that worms eat grass, and they live everywhere in dirt.

Mark said, "they crawl onto a rock because they like to eat, they like to eat this (pointing to grass."

Madi said the worms are wiggling. The students decided that they were 'dancing' to the new song they learned in music "Shake your bones out"

 

The students had many more questions about worms, so to the library we went. We watched "Diary of a Worm" which had a lot of worm facts.

 

I wonder what we will be looking for next...

 

Expectations covered:

2.2 make predictions and observations before and during investigation

2.3 select and use materials to carry out their own explorations