Buzz about Bees

In anticipation and preparation for our upcoming trip to the Richmond Nature Park for the Bees in the Bog program we've been doing a whole lot of thinking, wondering, reading and leaning about bees! Here's a peek at our exploration table. We keep adding more things as we go. 

Today we focused on the life cycle. We repurposed Sabrina's birthday cupcake trays (thanks) to create the cells of a colony. We added Pom Pom bees including a large queen, a drone and several worker bees. After this mornings work we added clear beads to represent the eggs and felt to act as wax to cap each cell once the larvae are ready to turn into pupae. 

There's a felt puzzle of a bee with labels of the body parts for the kids to put together, a sequencing activity for the life cycle, lots of books and photos too. We're learning lots of interesting things!