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Skills and Concepts:
- Learning the value, techniques, principles of composting
- Identifying kinds of waste appropriate for composting
- Understanding the life cycle of organic matter
Vocabulary:
Compost, waste, decompose, microbes, soil, recycle.
Activity:
Participants do the following:
-Pantomime throwing each item named into an imaginary compost bin.
-Mix compost with an imaginary shovel
-Hold hands up, wiggle fingers, and sing,
"It's like magic, when the microbes eat the waste within."
Leaves that crunch by the bunch, broccoli stalks too
Mix them in the compost bin
It's like magic, when the microbes eat the waste within
Wilted kale, shredded mail, egg shells too
Mix them in the compost bin
It's like magic, when the microbes eat the waste within
Just add a little water and the brew heats up
Turn it now and then and watch it decompose
Then spread it on the ground and all around the plants
And oh, how the garden grows!
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Melon rinds, all kinds, orange peels too
Mix them in the compost bin
It's like magic, when the microbes eat the waste within
Bread crumbs, dead mums, coffee grounds too
Mix them in the compost bin
It's like magic, when the microbes eat the waste within
The worms join in to eat the garbage too
And new life springs from what once was old
It's a miracle that makes the soil so rich
We call it "garden gold!"
Squished figs, dry twigs, carrot tops too
Mix them in the compost bin
It's like magic, when the microbes eat the waste within
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