March 24, 2011

[Field Trip] All About Bees!

We took a field trip yesterday for homeschooling families to learn about beekeeping. It was wonderful for the children to learn and see how the bees work together, how bees are responsible for 1/3 of the food we have, what foods they help pollinate, and the sweet story of honey!

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Pointing out the Queen bee (she is marked with a red dot)
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The children got to roll their own wax candles at the end.
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Picnic at the park. A few bees even buzzed by to see if we had anything to offer and nobody freaked out. Imagine that!
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Queen Bee and her Worker Bees by Sophia
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Some fun new vocabulary the children learned:

beekeeper
beeswax
clover
colony
drone
flower
hexagon
hive
honey
insect
nectar
pollen
pollination
queen
worker

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