Ms. Connor's 2nd Graders Plant in Their Bed

This week, Ms. Connor's 2nd graders planted seeds in their raised bed, composted in the worm bin and wrote about this in their journals.  They planted seeds of red lettuce. orange carrots and cosmic purple carrots. They also buried seeds from last year's cherry tomatoes to see if they'd germinate. 

They also added scraps of fruit and vegetables, egg shells and coffee ground to the worm bin and played with the worms.  The worms eat the food scraps which pass through their bodies and become worm compost. Eventually we'll add the worm compost to our garden beds. We use red wriggler worms in our worm bin. They added the branches of the old tomato plant to the larger compost bin.

 Composting is an easy and educational way to recycle food waste.   

We have two compost bins at Marquez. One is the worm bin for vermicomposting and the other is a green tumbler. While we put kitchen scraps in the worm bin, we can put green and brown garden waste as well in the tumbler.

Some books for kids about composting include Compost Stew, Kids Can Compost and Composting, Nature's Recyclers.