Tiny life on the ground talks about 2 types of germs called bacteria and fungus. Did you know that ½ of a spoonful of dirt has 500,000 bacteria in it? Bacteria is a living thing but it only has one cell! Bacteria is a really important gem! Without it we would be buried in animals because it eats dead animals and dead plants.
Fungi is another one of tiny living things. Some fungi you can not see without a microscope.
Some of the large group of fungi live on the ground, and some of them live in other places. I learned a lot about fungi and bacteria.
Hi, Parker.
ReplyDeletePoint: I like the way that you have learned about big animals, like huge sharks, and today you are talking about tiny living things, bacteria and fungi. Those are living all around us. I like how you explained about the good things that bacteria do, in eating dead animals and plants. Fungi help with that too. Sometimes people only think about the ways that some bacteria and some fungi make people sick.
My father used to like to say a little poem. He would say "There's a fungus among us." That's like what you wrote. There are fungi all over.
Question: Did you know that one fungus is a fungus, but two or more are fungi? That's called a plural, but it is an unusual plural. "Bacteria" is another unusual plural. One of them is a bacterium--but since a half spoonful of dirt has 500,000 bacteria, you don't deal with one bacterium very often.
Crossing Rebecca
Positive Point: I like that you explained to the reader what bacteria are. "Bacteria is a living thing but it only has one cell!" I also like that you tell the reader that bacteria are important.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How are fungus different from bacteria? Are fungi also important to people?
Point: I am truly astounded that you know so much about bacteria and fungus. I wasn't aware that 1/2 a spoonful of dirt has half a million of bacteria in it. Thank you for the information, Parker.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Where did you learn all these important details about fungi and bacteria?
Christine
Hi Parker,
ReplyDeleteTiny Life on The Ground sounds like a fun book. It taught you that some germs are not as bad as we think they are. I wonder how much bacteria is on our skin and in our mouths.
What other things do we call bad that are good for us sometimes?
Monique