Music: This is the way we Plant the seed: circle song
Oats, and wheat, and Barley: circle song
Farmer in the Dell: circle song
Green grass: sing while drawing the tree
Garden song: Just for fun!
Worms: Adding the Measurement of Worms, Gummy Worm Activity: Visual and
Tactile sorting by color, shape, smell, texture, elasticity….record your
observations…..Length and circumference of top middle and bottom….Diary of a
worm, Welcome to the Can-O-Worms, Worms, Wonderful Worms
Shadows: How does your body make Shadows
Farm: Object and Word Match, Sentence Word Match, Baby Parents Match.
Charts and Matching of Planting Maybe planting seeds to months match
Books:
We Are Extremely Very Good Recyclers
Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day
2. And Then It's Spring
3. The Carrot Seed
4. Flower Garden
5. Planting a Rainbow
6. Sunflower House
7. The Gardener
8. City Green
9. The Garden of Happiness
10. Growing Vegetable Soup
11. And the Good Brown Earth
Composting:
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How to Make a Compost Pile
Overview
Making compost can be an educational way to teach children biology, earth
sciences, agricultural practices or, as composting becomes mandatory in some
cities, even civics. The practice of composting helps to reinforce the lessons that
you teach kids. Your children can contribute to building and maintaining their
compost pile. In anywhere from two weeks to six months, depending on how you
maintain your compost pile, the contents will change into a rich, black loam.
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2 weeks to ferment. 2 weeks in the soil.
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Step 1
Construct a compost bin by bending chicken wire into a circle. Keep your
compost bin small so that kids can help with the process. The smallest size
compost bin that can effectively make compost is 3 feet square.
Step 2
Collect compost materials with your children to build your pile with. The most
effective compost bins use two types of organic scrap material: green organic
material such as lawn clippings, clover and kitchen scraps; and brown organic
material such as hay, fallen leaves and sawdust. Avoid kitchen scraps such as
eggshells. Children who handle eggshells can contract salmonella, a bacteria
that can make them very sick. Also avoid oils, meats or fats. These items can
attract vermin and turn your compost pile rancid.
Step 3
Clip up the organic material so that each piece is less than 1 inch in diameter. Do
not allow children to assist in this process. You can cut large dry pieces such as
leaves or hay with a lawn mower, and shred kitchen scraps with a food processor
or kitchen shears.
Step 4
Pile the scraps into alternating layers of organic green and organic brown
material with your kids' help. The organic brown layers should be three times as
thick as the organic green layers. Have kids wear gloves to keep their hands
clean and protect them from potential germs.
Step 5
Wet the compost until it is as damp as a wrung-out sponge. Explain to kids that
this will help to start the hot compost process by activating the beneficial
microbes in the compost pile that decompose the compost.
Step 6
Test the soil daily with a meat thermometer to ensure that the compost's internal
temperature stays between 120 and 150 degrees. Explain to the kids that this is
the temperature range that the microbes are most active in. Keeping compost
this warm will help to speed the composting process.
Step 7
Stir the compost pile so that the outside contents are moved to the inner part of
the bin any time the temperature drops below 120 degrees. Tell your kids that
this helps to raise the temperature and re-energize the microbes.
Step 8
Help your kids sift the large pieces of compost out of the compost soil to separate
them. The soil is finished compost that you and your kids can use. You can
return the unfinished compost to the compost pile to await the next batch of
compost
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