{"id":201,"date":"2017-11-02T17:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T01:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/?p=201"},"modified":"2017-11-02T17:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T01:52:01","slug":"thank-you-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/2017\/11\/02\/thank-you-worms\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Worms!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4243.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4243-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4243-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4243-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4243-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is our school compost bin beside our primary playground. Parents are welcome to toss apple cores, vegetable skins, orange and banana peels or other organic material directly into the bin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4242.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4242-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4242-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4242-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4242-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We learned that this brown banana peel is yummy worm food. \u00a0Worms will eat the banana peel and produce rich dirt and compost material that will be used in our school garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4245.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-181\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4245-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4245-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4245-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4245-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then went back into the classroom and took a closer look at worms that Nikoo brought for us to observe. Nikoo also read us &#8216;Diary of a Worm.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-182\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4246-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4246-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4246-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_4246-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of us were brave enough to gently handle the worms. Ms. Yonka remembers playing with worms and frogs as a child. I was happy just observing the worms with a magnifying glass.<\/p>\n<p>When we look at the beautiful trees and plants in our schoolyard, Nikoo reminded us to remember to thank the worms for recycling materials andy producing the rich soil necessary for plants to grow. \u00a0Thank you, Nikoo, for this great lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is our school compost bin beside our primary playground. Parents are welcome to toss apple cores, vegetable skins, orange and banana peels or other organic material directly into the bin. We learned that this brown banana peel is yummy worm food. \u00a0Worms will eat the banana peel and produce rich dirt and compost material &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/2017\/11\/02\/thank-you-worms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank you, Worms!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}