How to look after our worm farms.

Our worm farm needs to be in a shady and sheltered place.
Worms need protection from the sun.
We need to put 3 capfuls of water into the worm farm every 1-2 weeks.
Shake or turn your worm farm every 2 weeks.
Feed your worms every few days. They eat as much as they weigh.
Worms don't eat much bread. They don't eat citrus fruit (oranges,lemons,mandarins,grapefruit),kiwifruit,meat,dairy products(yoghurt,butter,milk,cheese).
Worms prefer their food chopped finely.
After a few weeks you could collect the vermacast .To get it out, put holes in the bottom of your worm farm, or pour it out of the top.
The vermacast is really good for the garden.

Music

Today we had a musician who showed us different styles of flutes, mouth organs and other things which became instruments such as spoons. Room 17 were lucky enough to get to play the ukulele.

Worm Farms

Room 17 have been learning about worms and worm farms this year. We have a worm farm that we feed and look after with the other Year 3 classes. Now that we are experts on Tiger Worms we have been designing our own worm farms. Today we made small worm farms with our Enviro School facilatator. We learnt how to layer the carbons and nitrogens and what we need to do to keep these worm farms healthy. We are going to write a "How to care for our worm farm" instructions which we will post soon.

Here are some of the photos of us making our worm farms.

Term 4

Welcome back to Term 4.
This term we are spending the first 2 weeks studying time in maths. I have put some time sites below if you want to practise time at home.
http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec3.html
http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/clock2/clockwordsres.html
http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math-time.html
http://www.softschools.com/time/tellingtime.jsp
We have a busy term with athletics and swimming which I will keep you informed of the times and dates.

Room 17's Assembly Item

Last Friday we presented our ideas about Recycling,Reusing and Redusing Rubbish.We are hoping that our ideas will grow in the school. Here are some photos of us.

Other Sites to explore and learn

Breathing EarthThis is incredible! http://www.breathingearth.net/Hold your mouse over a country to see the population size, births and deaths and CO2 emissions.

Free Rice
For each question you get right rice is donated to the hungry people in the world. http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Spelling Sites www.spellingcity.com/

Other Sites to explore and learn

Breathing EarthThis is incredible! http://www.breathingearth.net/Hold your mouse over a country to see the population size, births and deaths and CO2 emissions.

Term 3 2009

Welcome back to Term 3. Our topics this term are Kia Kaha which covers bullying issues and we are planning to design and build a worm farm as well. Our Maths this term is focussed on fractions and I will add some websites which students could use at home to practise fractions and basic facts.
In Physical Education we are skating on a Tuesday in Week 4,5and 7. We are also going cross counrty skiing in week 8. The day is still to be confirmed. We are also doing Jump Jam at school.
I will add other information, useful websites and photos as the term progresses.

Highlights of Term 2 2009

Room 17 have been looking at rubbish in our school. We have looked at recycling and reducing our rubbish too. Room 17 visited the Recycling Depot here are some of the things we saw.
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