Te Moana's Learning
Te Moana have been loving learning about bees with our most recent science kit, ‘What’s the buzz?’ On Wednesday, we were so excited to have a beehive delivered to our school!
On Wednesday, we were looking at bees. We learned that there are only three types of bees: the queen bee, the male bee, and the worker bee. The queen bee lays eggs, which develop into larvae and then pupae. The first queen pupae to hatch becomes the next queen bee- Paige Smith
The beehive scared me at first with all of them flying so close to the glass, and I even had to inspect the dead bees, but I got used to it. I’ll never get used to that awful smell. We inspected the male bee, the worker bee, and the queen bee. Our principal, Ms. Johnson, placed some information pages near the beehive. The beehive has male pupae, egg mass, worker pupae, queen larvae, queen pupae, and male larvae.- Pippa Caudel
Yesterday, so to say, Wednesday the 21st of May, we got a bee’s nest! This bee's nest contains “Bombus Terrestris” bumble bees. They seem very good at laying eggs and making pupae. The queen larvae looks like a big doughnut. The bees are constantly moving, and there seems to be a lot happening in the nest. I’m excited to see how it grows over the week as they are working very busily.
After examining bees and watching them work in their hive, Te Moana wrote some descriptive paragraphs about them.
Check out Benedict and Sam’s amazing work!
BEES
By Sam Tye
The garden is a beautiful valley of life-you can see life everywhere you look. You can see little things moving from yellow flowers to blue flowers… BEES!!! Flying black and yellow ants are getting pollen for their hive. The hive is like a giant acorn of worker bees making the pollen from the flowers into hexagons after hexagons. Deep inside the hive, the royal bee sleeps - the Queen bee - the one bee to rule them all! Laying millions of tiny eggs so more bees can work busily and diligently in the hive. I can understand why they’re so attracted to sweet-smelling flowers. The beauty of hardworking, fuzzy bees leaves me feeling buzzed!
Beautiful Bees
By Benedict Koepl
The garden is alive. Bees buzzing all around the place. The worker bees are darting from one beautiful flower to another so fast they’re only little blurs. The hive is dangling off a branch of a great oak tree. The sound of buzzing bees is so loud it's like a herd of motorbikes speeding along the highway. Male bees are like little black and yellow bodyguards serving the Queen bee as much as they can. The Queen bee has the hardest job ever! She has to lay all the eggs and keep every bee on the right track. The bees look like mini aliens that fly around the place. They have little hairy legs to pick up dusty, yellow pollen, and together they fly off- a black and yellow air force squad.
