Soil Layers

Today R14 came to visit Annie and learn all about soil.  We  completed a pretest about soil and found that we did not know very much about the wonderful resource, SOIL!  We stand on it everyday and grow our food in it but don't know as much about it as we should.  R16 have finished their inquiry about soil and their knowledge was great when we did our pretest.   Well done R16.  What a lot they learned.
Today though it was R14's chance to learn and inquire. We then completed a T chart about what we knew and questions we have a bout soils .  There were some rich questions asked.  We also watched videos about soil, focusing on what it is, what types of soil there are and the soil layers.  We sketched a cross section of soil and labelled the different layers.  See the diagram below to learn the layers.  Also see R16's fun photos below when they made edible soils in layers just like this.  It certainly helped them remember the order of the layers from the bottom to the top or vice versa.