Wormy Wednesdays!

Along with Darci at STEM Mom and Andrea at No Doubt Learning, we're starting a worms unit study called Wormy Wednesdays!

We'll be having a weekly link up on STEM Mom's blog soon, but just to get you in the spirit of things, here's what we did at our house for our first day:

We learned about verbs and adjectives, and filled out a sheet with words about worms for each (he dictated, I wrote).

He gave it a try with the words he can read:

We read the book Winnie Finn, Worm Farmer and talked about all the ways that worms can help us.


He did a maze: "Help the worm find the watermelon"

He spent quite a lot of time playing with the playdough mats I had printed and laminated (thanks, Twinkl!):

We also prepared a worm farm of our own. The layers:

Sand from the sandbox
leaves from the yard
coffee grounds

dirt from the garden

apple peels and broken pieces of corn

and mulch after Dad mowed the lawn

A pause for "dirt cup" snacks:

Then, the highlight of our day: a night hunt for worms in the garden!

They have been added, and we are probably the only family in town with a worm farm as their dining room centerpiece. I bet you're really wishing you could come for supper now, aren't you?

Want to see what the others are doing? Please go take a look at the posts on No Doubt Learning and STEM Mom!