Visitors from the UA Master Gardener Program

Thanks so much to Ms. Linda and Ms. Ginny for visiting our class. We learned so many things! We learned how to use a probe and a hand lens to observe garden soil. We made predictions and observations, which we recorded. We also learned about the different types of soil in Arkansas (sand, clay and humus or garden soil). Then we observed how much water these soil types retain. What a wonderful, hands-on learning experience!

Last we got to act out what it would be like for water to move through these different particles. Some of us were sand, some were humus, some were clay, and some got to be the water. Sometimes the water got stuck to the particles!