Worm Farm

Today Mary Curnow came to talk to us about worms and worm farms. We found out lots of interesting facts:

Worms

• Worms have 5 hearts - Liam.

• Worms have 2 sets of muscles. Short muscles make them stretch out and the one long one is in the middle makes it shrink - Darby.

• They don't have eyes, teeth, arms, legs, ears and hair but they have bristles - James.
• They don't like eating oranges, lemons, mandarins or onions because it burns their skin - Mia.
• The stripy worms are tiger worms and they are good for compost heaps - Cole.
• They don't like the light and they don't like too much rain - Kushla.
• When you hold worms you need to wear gloves because our bare hands will burn their skin - Holly.
• The food goes in its mouth and is squeezed to it's gizzard where it is ground down and then it comes out its tail end - Boyd.
• Worms pretend to be dead when we pick them up because they don't like the light - Jess.
• They need egg shells to help make their babies - Sam S.

Worm Farms

• Compost bins have three layers - Ethan.
• The lid has little air vents that also let in rain - Kynan.
• In the top layer we put the food scraps like potatoes, apples, weeds and flowers - Sam D & Kaitlyn.
• In the middle layer the worms make the compost - Jacques.
• In the bottom layer worm juice is collected - Skylah.