We were extremely lucky to have our Bee Lady visit yesterday. So off we went to the hall at 9 am with our topic books and pencils in hand. We had the bee lady talk for almost an hour about bees and how amazing they are. I saw so many hands come up and so many heads trying to write down questions and interesting facts that they have learned about bees in their books. I learned some new things such as: the queen bee can lay 2,000 eggs per day, worker bees work so hard they only live about 6 weeks, bees eat lots of honey and then secrete beeswax out of their skin/fur, and that one bee produces only about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in their lifetime.
Room 31 and 32 had a little break and then we had our rotation session. We were really happy to have some parents come and help us as well. We made some beeswax candles, did a word search and quiz, drew some pictures of bee anatomy, and then got to look at the beehive.
We all had a great time learning about bees and I'm sure everyone was buzzing after our day!
Here are some pictures of our visit:
The portable beehive -
You can just see the queen bee with her blue dot. She is bigger than other bees in her hive.
The Bee Lady in costume -
Freya got to be a beautiful flower -
Everyone was so interested in what she was saying -
Having a group session with the bee lady -
Drawing bee anatomy -
Trying to find the queen bee -
Miss Kinsman teaching students how to fold the beeswax candle -
Terry folding his candle -
Emily hard at work -
One of the great drawings of a bee -
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