Pollination

Today we have been finding out just how important our bees are to us. 

We found out that bees collect both nectar and pollen from flowers. The nectar is sucked out of flowers and taken back to the hive where it is turned into honey. Bees will also collect pollen, an essential part of the bee diet, and will transported back to the hive on the bees hind legs. A single bee can carry about half her body weight in pollen. Wow! During this process, the bee will go from one flower to the Nextel therefore pollinating the plants as they do so. This was explained to the children as making new seeds, therefore new flowers.

We acted out being bees and pollinating plants using cheesy puff crisps!! Here we are pollinating plants!!

We did the 'waggle dance' as we did so....

We learnt a lot about how important bees are and how they help to make new flowers. 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We have been excited with our special delivery of tiny caterpillars.

They are so tiny and have come in a pot complete with food ( not leaves like we thought but a brown, sandy type of food).

We will watch them as they feed and grow and wait patiently for the next stage in the cycle to happen.

We have enjoyed reading the story of The a Very a Hungry Caterpillar.

We have played the board game and this led onto some talk about foods which are healthy and those which are not.

We have played at being the Hungry Caterpillar outside, crawling through tunnels.

We enjoyed tasting the different fruits from the story. The watermelon was a big hit!

And plums..

We used fruit to create patterns and dime even made caterpillars!

We printed our very own caterpillar numberlines too.

We have made our life cycles to show the changes that take place.

We have used natural materials to explore symmetrical butterfly wing patterns.

We have focussed on shapes and properties of shapes and used these yo make symmetrical patterns too.

We also enjoyed dragging shapes yo create symmetrical patterns on the game on the IWB.

We enjoyed playing the caterpillar gone on the interactive whiteboard where we had to put leaves in order of size, from the smallest to the largest number.

The children have been very creative.

Eggs on leaves in the Duplo

Caterpillar and butterfly kites.

And other kites!

And look how much they've grown.

I ended if we will have caterpillars or chrysalis's when we get to school tomorrow?!