Worm Farm Project - Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Tuesday 23rd February 2016
We are learning about Worm Farms. Josh needs Nga Ringa Awhina's help to make a worm farm at Mangonui School.

Wednesday 24th February 2016
So, How do we make a worm farm?
Someone suggested that we could look for information about worm farms on the computer, iPads or internet.
We used the internet to search for information about 'How to make a worm farm'. We typed in 'How to make a worm farm' on the Google search page.
We looked at pictures
Miss Clarke read lots of information about making a worm farm.
Some of the children in Nga Ringa Awhina already knew lots about worms and worm farms so they could share what they knew with us.

Monday 29th February 2016
The worms need a house.
We need a house for the worms. We are going to use the red bath for their house - Sunday
We need dirt and to put a tap at the bottom so the worms don't get out- Keylee.
We have an old bath tub to put the worm farm in. It needs to be in a cool area and covered so the birds can't eat the worms.

The worms need bedding.
You need to make a bed for the worms. - Kuirau
You have to make a bed. You have to dig the dirt and look for food - Vincent.
You make a worm farm by putting stones and rocks at the bottom of the bath tub - Brock.
We need hay for the bed, cardboard, straw - Keylee
If you use straw you wait until the grass is all white - Fern.
The worm farm will need cardboard, newspaper, straw/hay, dry grass and dirt.

You need worms.
We will need to get some worms - Sol
The worms are going to make compost - Kuirau
What kinds of worms are there?
We found out that we can't just use worms from in the garden in the worm farm. We needed special worms called 'Tiger Worms' for the worm farm. You can buy tiger worms for $48 for a couple of hundred worms.
Did Josh have any money to buy the worms?
Josh is going to be given some worms from Jo Shanks - CEBEC 

You need to feed them.
You can put scraps in there like apple cores and banana skins - Fern.
You have to put dirt in and food scraps that you don't like so you can give it to the worms to make them healthy - Jayden
You can put food scraps in there - Jayden
They don't eat plastic and they don't eat meat - Keylee
They don't eat citrus.
Worms can eat egg shells - Kuirau
Worms can not eat hair and glass - Brock.

Words we don't know from our research about worm farms
compost
ecosystem
habitat
ventilated
citrus