{"id":24966,"date":"2023-08-01T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=24966"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:58:15","slug":"new-and-improved-wormery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/08\/01\/new-and-improved-wormery\/","title":{"rendered":"New and improved wormery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from our last up-cycling project, we can now say we have finished fixing our broken wormery.<\/p>\n<p>The children have worked so hard over the past couple of weeks using the tools and their problem solving skills to put it back together. They worked as a team to decide what they would use and what tools would work best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130227\/80557633-BC9D-432D-878F-FBD87C8D51A3-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24969\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/08\/01\/new-and-improved-wormery\/80557633-bc9d-432d-878f-fbd87c8d51a3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130227\/80557633-BC9D-432D-878F-FBD87C8D51A3-rotated.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"945,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad mini 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1689175036&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"80557633-BC9D-432D-878F-FBD87C8D51A3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130227\/80557633-BC9D-432D-878F-FBD87C8D51A3-225x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130227\/80557633-BC9D-432D-878F-FBD87C8D51A3-768x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24969\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130227\/80557633-BC9D-432D-878F-FBD87C8D51A3-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130227\/80557633-BC9D-432D-878F-FBD87C8D51A3-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130227\/80557633-BC9D-432D-878F-FBD87C8D51A3-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130227\/80557633-BC9D-432D-878F-FBD87C8D51A3-rotated.jpeg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis small bit is too small\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c We could use this long piece of wood on the side\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwe need a little nail and a hammer to put it on we don\u2019t want to break the wood in half\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24971\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/08\/01\/new-and-improved-wormery\/8abf1357-64c5-48ab-8625-b7684890c130\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24971\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01132228\/8ABF1357-64C5-48AB-8625-B7684890C130.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does this do? it has a bubble in it\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130420\/69F3F4AA-1065-448F-B342-766F7C27D603-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24970\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/08\/01\/new-and-improved-wormery\/69f3f4aa-1065-448f-b342-766f7c27d603\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130420\/69F3F4AA-1065-448F-B342-766F7C27D603-rotated.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"945,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad mini 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1690885408&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"69F3F4AA-1065-448F-B342-766F7C27D603\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130420\/69F3F4AA-1065-448F-B342-766F7C27D603-225x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130420\/69F3F4AA-1065-448F-B342-766F7C27D603-768x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24970\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130420\/69F3F4AA-1065-448F-B342-766F7C27D603-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130420\/69F3F4AA-1065-448F-B342-766F7C27D603-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130420\/69F3F4AA-1065-448F-B342-766F7C27D603-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01130420\/69F3F4AA-1065-448F-B342-766F7C27D603-rotated.jpeg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We learned that the spirit level indicates whether a surface is \u2018Level\u2019 or \u2018plumb\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does plumb mean?\u201d We researched it and found out that \u201dPlumb means that the surface is sitting straight, it is vertical\u201d This meant that we could check the sides were running straight up and down. We also used the spirit level to check the wormery was level across the top and bottom. We found out this is horizontal!<\/p>\n<p>Every tinker table experience is different, even if it seems the same. We learn new vocabulary every day and learn skills that we can transfer into our everyday life, especially as we get older.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24972\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/08\/01\/new-and-improved-wormery\/a0b669a7-fc3b-4670-b8a9-effd52240b66\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24972\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133216\/A0B669A7-FC3B-4670-B8A9-EFFD52240B66.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a wormery for compost is an easy and environmentally-friendly way of turning food waste in to nutritious compost to feed your garden.<\/p>\n<p>Now we just need find some worms to come and live in it and make up its bedding! \ud83d\udc1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from our last up-cycling project, we can now say we have finished fixing our broken wormery. The children have worked so hard over the past couple of weeks using the tools and their problem solving skills to put it back together. They worked as a team to decide what they would use and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/08\/01\/new-and-improved-wormery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New and improved wormery<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31671,"featured_media":24973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508,189,5556,2486,446938],"tags":[446333,446699,446570,446334,446165,446568,13089,445980,4390,135,446612,8379],"class_list":["post-24966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-literacy","category-outdoor-learning","category-social-studies","category-technologies","tag-creativityskills","tag-finemotorskills","tag-grossmotorskills","tag-problemsolving","tag-curiosity","tag-discovery-room","tag-imagination","tag-measuring","tag-nature","tag-science","tag-social-skills","tag-teamwork"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/08\/01133528\/AFB1FC8D-F840-4A83-9AA5-6484D680116F-rotated.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24976,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24966\/revisions\/24976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}