There’s No Place Like Loam

Posted by Mr. Marchionda on Apr 28, 2010 in Classroom News | Comments Off

Today in our soils unit in science we learned that there are different types of soils. We learned mainly about clay and loam. We then got to get our hands on dry clay, wet clay, loam, humus, and sand. This was helpful because we learned that the smaller the particles that a particular soil is made up of, the better it holds water. Therefore clay gets maliable with water and sand lets water run right through it. The best was the humus. That was strangely, wonderfully, soft. Joe wants a pillow made of it. Frankly, I think that is a little gross.

Here is the work for the day:

Anna’s mom sent in the rock star picture of me during our spring concert. Hmmmm . . . what do you think Simon Cowel would say? Thanks for sending in the picture, you made my day. And, now, I share it with you all!