You will probably not be surprised to hear that digging for worms is one of our all-time favourite things to do in Nursery!  We are lucky enough to have our very own digging area which we cover over each evening to keep the foxes away.

We have been learning how to dig slowly so the soil doesn’t flick up into our friends faces and how to hold the worms carefully on the flat of our hands so we don’t hurt them.

This week, we decided to find out more about these wiggly creatures.  We read the story ‘Yucky Worms’ by Vivian French and Jessica Ahlberg.  At the beginning of the story, the little boy thinks worms are yucky and disgusting but, thanks to a visit to his Gran’s garden, he soon learns that they are actually fascinating, fun and very helpful gardeners.

We were amazed to discover that worms have a head and a tail.  They also have 5 pairs of hearts! No wonder they are so kind and friendly!

You can revisit the book in this video below.  It is quite a long story with lots of detail, so we just read the interesting bits and you might like to do the same!

We wondered what it might be like to wiggle like a worm under the soil and had a go at crawling through our own tunnels in the garden.  We took turns and gave each other lots of encouragement saying ‘you can do it’!  Well done Nursery!

And of course, after such a wiggly, wormy week, we just had to read the classic Julia Donaldson story ‘Superworm’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKN76BhTbkg

Who knows, we may find our own Superworm in the digging area next week!  But, in the meantime, here are a couple of the other creatures we discovered this week…a centipede and a stag beetle!  Wow!