Worms and Gardening!

It has been a busy week here at NRP! We have been celebrating Spring!

On Monday and Tuesday, we read some garden books (Diary of a Worm and Vegetable Soup) and planted our seeds! Each child got to count out and plant their very own row! We planted: cauliflower, cucumber, tomatoes, basil, winter squash, summer squash and sweet peppers! They are currently inside in seed planters and we are looking forward to planting them once it finally warms up for good!

Since we have been tilling the garden and getting ready for planting, the class has become very interested in worms! We thought it would be fun to learn about composting and how worms live.

Today, Jimmy Nimock came and showed us all about his red worm compost! We juiced a lot of veggies and then fed the left-overs to the worms! Then we covered the worm beds up with sawdust and we are leaving them for a few days to eat before we check on them again and see the progress. The kids LOVED playing with and learning about the worms. After we had fed the worms and watered them, everyone got to try some yummy vegetable juice! We are hoping to start are very own compost bin in the following week. This way, we can save some of our lunch scraps for our worms and then use the soil they make in the garden throughout the summer. 

Thanks for sharing your wonderful children with us!
-Miss Johannah