5/6/22

Hi families–good news! We received our worms on Tuesday. These worms are currently feasting on oranges, bananas, and watermelon donated by your generous 2nd graders, in their newly constructed habitats. Ask your second grader how we created their homes?

Here are some fun facts about worms:

– An earthworm can grow only so long. A well-fed adult will depend on what kind of worm it is, how many segments it has, how old it is and how well fed it is. An Lumbricus terrestris will be from 90-300 millimeters long.

-A worm has no arms, legs or eyes.

-There are approximately 2,700 different kinds of earthworms.

-Worms live where there is food, moisture, oxygen and a favorable temperature. If they don’t have these things, they go somewhere else.

-In one acre of land, there can be more than a million earthworms.

-The largest earthworm ever found was in South Africa and measured 22 feet from its nose to the tip of its tail.

In Math we are finishing up our multiplication and division unit and will be moving on to time next week. We are so excited to begin this new unit!

In Music class, Second Graders have completed their study of the instruments of the orchestra and Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. They are now learning songs for their Chumash Ceremony!