My sister was in town and we stopped by school after a soccer game to show her the worms and we were surprised! At one point, I scooped up a solid handful of worms! I feed them once a week a mixture of vegetable scraps mainly consisting of carrot and cucumber peelings, egg shells and banana peels. Lately my contributors have been sending sweet potato scraps, broccoli and cauliflower scraps too. We have 2 bins and I try to divide the scraps equally so they get a mix of everything and the 1 bin is so full of worms that I barely find any food the following week. I thought the brocoli would take awhile to soften up but that ate most of it already! I have had to sit the worms outside once or twice this week because it is a little too wet in the bins, but they are doing great! We started looking for eggs and found at least 8! They are the little yellow things in the picture below. Oh and Brooke, my photographer had to take a picture of the escaping worm!
A few people have asked what I am going to do with the worms over the summer and since they are really self sufficient, I will leave them at school and just stop in once a week (I’m almost there that often anyways) to give them some fresh food. Then we will have a worm sort again when schools starts to introduce the new 2nd graders to the worms.
I did sneak into a 2nd grade classroom and take a picture of the ecosystems last week before they went home. I was a little worried about them going on the bus, but I didn’t hear any horror stories… The tadpoles on the other hand - I don’t know what went wrong, we had so many in the beginning and they just keep dwindling. Last week we were down to 4, and now 1...
I did sneak into a 2nd grade classroom and take a picture of the ecosystems last week before they went home. I was a little worried about them going on the bus, but I didn’t hear any horror stories… The tadpoles on the other hand - I don’t know what went wrong, we had so many in the beginning and they just keep dwindling. Last week we were down to 4, and now 1...