Seeds, bees, butterflies, and pollination....
Room 24 had been looking at seeds, discovering what seeds are and why they are important. We were lucky enough to go on a class trip to the Botanical Gardens where we learnt all about how seeds are made and the pollination process. Some of the class got to dress up as flowers with petals, sticky stigma and anther with pollen. The others got to be bees and butterflies and pollinate the flowers. We had a great time!
When we got back to the classroom we couldn't stop talking about pollinators. We saw bees and bumble bees all around us. Marry found a dead bumble bee and we looked at it under the microscope. William, Liam and Becca decided to model bees out of clay and discovered it had six legs. Zoe told us bees have two pairs of wings and Marry drew her bee with three body parts.
Honey became the topic of conversation and how bees make honey. Everyone wanted to eat some honey. We tried honey comb. We ate and looked closely:
"Look in there you can see different tubes" Iggy
"That's where they put the honey" "Is it actually wax?"
"What is wax?" Edie "Do the bees make it?" "Wax is soft and can be rolled and is chewy" Lucia "The wax doesn't have any flavour" "It's soft" Zoe 'How do you get the honey out?'
We noticed the hexagon shapes of the cells. This is Becca's wild beehive. We experimented with some beeswax that was kindly donated to the class. For the school Farmers' Market we made candles by rolling the sheets of beeswax. Bee are just fascinating.
Then ants got into our honey! We noticed that ants have six legs and three body parts just like bees and ants live in colonies and have a queen too! So much to discover just outside our classroom.
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