Buzz goes the bee, hour after hour. Buzz goes the bee, from flower to flower!

Buzz goes the bee, hour after hour. Buzz goes the bee, from flower to flower!!

There is quite a buzz about bees in our Escuelita classroom! A few of our families actually keep bees, and Camille's mom Tibby Wroten was kind enough to join us this week and give us a presentation about bees where students engaged with beekeeping equipment and then actually got to taste fresh honey from honeycomb! 

 

Science and art merged as we used our powers of observation. We concentrated on the colors of yellow and black, and created all kinds of art with black and yellow materials. When yellow and black alternate, it makes a pattern, and also stripes! We practiced drawing lines to make stripes, both horizontal and vertical. Looking closely at honeycomb, we could see the individual cells were a hexagon shape. We noticed a similarity a hexagon has six sides, and a bee has six legs. Cool!

 

We played with making honeycomb patterns by pressing bubble wrap into clay, by tracing inside pattern boards, and tracing outside hexagon blocks. We tried laying six sticks on the ground to form a hexagon and traced around those too!

 

We talked about the dome shape of natural beehives, and created some beehives in clay and also built beehive tents to play in! The kids had so much fun tearing the long strips of fabric and tying them to the hoops. After we hung them up, we pretended to be bees gathering nectar and taking it back to the hive to make honey.

 

Has anyone ever visited the bee sanctuary in Davis? It looks like a great place to visit, and learn even more about bees!

http://daviswiki.org/Davis_Bee_Sanctuary

Teachers Sonja and Candice