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Gladstone Kindergarten students start vermicomposting in the classroom

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Gladstone Kindergarten students start vermicomposting in the classroom
A Kindergarten class at Gladstone Public School has begun setting aside their apple cores, banana peels, and even old stinky socks, so they can feed the worms that live in their classroom.
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Cornwall - May 1, 2012 - A Kindergarten class at Gladstone Public School has begun setting aside their apple cores, banana peels, and even old stinky socks, so they can feed the worms that live in their classroom.

Their ‘classroom vermicomposting’ became a reality because of a school partnership with All Things Food of SD&G, who applied for funding from TD Friends of The Environment to fund the initiative.

The project includes a wooden worm hotel that came complete with a starting colony of approximately a ¼ pound of red wiggler worms. The students enjoy feeding the colony every 2 or 3 days with organic waste that they set aside after their healthy snack. There are currently 25 such partnerships across the United Counties.

Elementary teacher Ann Symington was hoping to find something hands-on and engaging for her students that would help teach them how they can make a positive environmental impact. This classroom project was a perfect opportunity for the students to talk about Earth Day, learn more about how to reduce the amount of waste we send to landfill sites daily, and find out how they can make a small difference in their own daily lives.

On Friday April 20th, the class invited all parents to come to the school and enjoy a brief presentation on the project. Each student had the opportunity to come to the front of the class, and with the help of illustrations on the SMART Board, explain more about the project. The students taught their parents about composting, showed them what they were feeding the worms, and talked about the many uses for the end product; compost.


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