SUPER SOIL PROJECT

The planting of our new plants and vegetables has helped us realize how much desert dirt we have to replace with rich "soil". This has lead us right into our next project we are calling "Making Super Soil"...Composting. Composting is a natural fertilizer and as part of the planting process, provides nutrients to create a rich soil.

Students have learned that by providing food scraps and yard waste, they can help the compost provide more nutrients to the developing soil. Several students have already brought in things from home to add to the compost bin! Feel free to bring by your recycled food and yard waste, but please no dairy or meats!

Here students used their small motor/pre-writing skills to cut the cantaloupe into smaller pieces that are faster and easier to decompose in the bin. We practiced taking turns and talked about other foods that students might want to use in the compost bin to help our soil get "healthy". 

Worms are beneficial to gardening as they aerate the soil and help bring nutrients and moisture to the dirt. So naturally we needed some "science" time with worms! What a BIG HIT! Students practiced using descriptive expressive language with one another as we used some of our senses to talk about these slimy creatures! We compared the lengths of worms, counted them and compared differences and similarities. Although some students liked this more than others, this hands on lesson was so much fun! 

Along with talking about our wiggly squiggly worms, students have been learning all about insects. We have learned about the different parts of insects, compared and observed several examples and practiced sorting bugs. There is just too much fun to have with BUGS!

We will continue to learn about the natural environment around us and would love to share it with you!
Feel free to donate yard waste and food scraps to help in our "Super Soil Project", or better yet come look at all our hard work!