Scientists At Work

This week in Science we started to explore soil.  On Monday we  did a walk and talk sharing what we knew about soil.  Some of us were "posts" and we stayed in one spot.  The rest of us were "walkers."  We moved from post to post sharing our ideas about soil.  We were exploring the following questions -

• What is soil?  
• Where do you find soil?
• Why is soil important?

Once we had shared our information with each other we paired up with a partner and recorded our favourite fact on a sentence strip.  Below is a picture of our thinking!

 

 

 Today we looked a little closer at what lives in soil.  We read some information about soil and the creatures that live in it.  We also talked about composts.  Then we got to use magnifying glasses to look closely at some compost from Mrs. Betts compost bin.  You wouldn't believe what we saw!  Here are a few pictures but it was hard for Mrs. Betts to get pictures of all the creatures because they move very quickly!

Some of the other things we saw that Mrs. Betts couldn't get a picture of were:  centipedes, a baby snail (it was very tiny), some larvae, leaves, tiny pieces of wood.  We discovered that there were living and nonliving things in the compost!

Have you ever looked closely at soil and what lives in there?  You should!  It is amazing to see what is there!