The Early Years children wanted to have a re-look at worms, so they walked to the green in search of them and found out some interesting facts:
– Worms do not have a backbone (invertebrates)
– We worked out the length of the longest worm, being 22ft long
– Do you think worms produce eggs? They do!
– If a worm’s tail is cut whilst digging, it will regrow
– How many hearts do you think a worm has? A whopping 5 hearts!
The class did some ‘worm charming’ to try to coax the worms to the surface.
Worms come to the top of the ground when it rains, so mimicked the rain and jumped on the spot, counting to 20 and more. The children waited and the worms began to appear. Some children were brave enough to hold a worm and feel it moving. They used our subitising skills with the help of some 10’s frames to help the children count the number of worms. Each time a child found a worm, they placed a wool worm on the 10’s frame and by the end of the experiment there was a full 10, another full 10 and 4 and the children correctly answered that there were 24 worms in total.
What fun everyone had while learning at the same time.
