This is so much fun for homeschoolers or just to get the kids involved in the garden! Learn How to create a worm farm with kids!
Kids and Chores. It just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Over the years my kids have learned that chores are just a part of life, a part of
Learn about the garden with these garden yoga ideas: including a garden yoga poster, garden yoga cards for kids, and a garden yoga book.
Making a worm farm in a jar is a fun and easy way to teach kids about the importance of earthworms and how they help improve soil health.
Make a wormery and discover earthworm facts and earthworm activities for kids. How earthworms breathe, move and why they are so useful
Last week, we did one of my favorite themes - worms! The kids always love this theme too. We started it off with our small groups reading from the Reading A to Z books. As soon as they saw the cover they got all excited. I love that. Excited to learn. Imagine that. In our whole group, we read a few different books. Here some of the books we read during the week. Amazon.com Widgets As we read, we added details to our planning page. Then, we wrote our "sloppy" copy for our "All About Worms" writing activity. We also compared Diary of a Worm and Wonderful Worms. This picture doesn't show it, but we found a LOT of ways they were similar...and of course how they were different. They kept finding ways that the fictional book was still true. Awesome! We also made a worm habitat! They wrote out the steps of "How to Build a Worm Habitat." Then we made it! We made our first observation. They were so excited that even after one day, there were all kinds of different tunnels. Then, today we did the 2nd observation. The poem in my Worm pack lends itself nicely to reviewing adjectives Our skill this week was measurement. I started off by reading Inch by Inch by Leo Lioni Then we read our Inchworm's Trip poem. It came from {THIS} book. Then I passed out some worms for everyone to measure. I love using these worms. These are the worms that we used. The next day, the kids got to use the worms to measure different items in the class. This activity comes from my All About Worms pack. If you don't have a bucket of these worms in your class, I included some worms in the pack that you can print and laminate to use for this activity. He was totally amazed that it took that many worms - ha! Then it was time to break out the rulers! By the end of the week, I was able to conference with the kids on their sloppy copy writing so they could write their neat copy. While the writing activity comes from my All About Worms pack, the oh-so cute craft comes from Rowdy in Room 300- her worm glyph pack.
I love integrating STEM challenges into science units! This pollinator STEM challenge is a great way to integrate STEM with ecosystems in second grade!
Kids are so far removed from the production of food these days that they have no idea where food comes from or what it takes to produce it.
This was a fun project the boys and I put together to learn about what living things need and how composting and decomposing work. We got our worms from a gas station but you can find yours in your backyard, on the sidewalk after a fresh rain, in a bait shop, or another place that sells them for f
Animals on the farm is a fun unit study topic for kids of all ages — from preschool nature crafts to ideas for elementary farm lessons to high school agriculture lessons and teaching resources!
The way to win the battle between green time and screen time
Worm composting for kids is easy and fun. Setting up a worm bin teaches your kids so much and is beneficial for the garden too.
There are vintage skills kids need to learn! They need to learn them for themselves and for the continuation of these lovely life skills for the future.
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Composting an excellent tool to introduce STEM, patience and gardening to children. Here is how I make composting understandable for kids.
I had always been interested in urban farming, but it wasn't until I was married and had kids of my own that I took my farming dream seriously.
Take two branches. Run twine between them as shown and weave anything you want! I cannot fine the source of this photo but it is a gr...
5 fun and easy egg experiments for kids. Learn about air pressure, transforming egg white and much more.
You've heard about the farm to table movement but have you introduced it to your kids? Try one or more of these fun farm to tale activities to get started.
Explore pollination in your elementary classroom with these activities, experiments, STEM challenges, and videos that help to explain why pollination is important! Dive into how pollination works with an art based challenge for second and third grade.
Easy Seed and Gardening Unit Study for Kids (Middle - Upper Elementary). Gather some inexpensive supplies and jump into a fun and easy garden study.
Castle & Cubby create the cutest kids cubby house for sale Melbourne has to offer. Switch up playtime with our eco-friendly kids outdoor play equipment.
We had a special guest come and bring their worm composting container. The kids all had a lot of fun using magnifying glasses to check out ...
Culturing microbes (bacteria and fungi) on petri dishes lets you test different surfaces for microbes and grow your own germs. It’s also a great reminder of why it’s important to wash …
This project is an ecosystem in a bottle showing how animals, plants, and non-living things are all connected.
Making a worm farm in a jar is a fun and easy way to teach kids about the importance of earthworms and how they help improve soil health.
We had fun with this experiment. It was very cool to watch the colours change! I used food coloring and cabbage leaves to show the kids how plants …
