Jul
Bee Unit Study
How is it possible that it’s been three years since I last posted? I decided that I am going to start trying to post again now that it feels like life has slowed down a little bit.
We finished up school a few weeks ago and one of our favorite units was learning about bees. I hadn’t actually planned on blogging about this, so I only have a few pictures that I took with my phone.
After we spent a few days learning about bees, we drew and labeled bees in our science nature journals.
We also studied the life cycle of a honey bee.
Hunter is looking at a sesame seed with his magnifying glass. We learned that a bee’s brain is the size of a sesame seed. It’s pretty amazing all of the things that bees can do with such tiny brains.
We took a field trip to learn more about bees.
Field trip- looking at the life cycle
Field trip- looking at the different kinds of bees
Field trip- doing activities with hexagons
We made some bee art. The kids had to make a queen bee, a worker bee, and a drone. Each one has different characteristics that they had to represent in their bee drawings.
Learning about bees has definitely made us less scared of them. Now when a bee comes near one of us we just say, “It’s not going to hurt me, it’s just trying to pollinate.”
