As our Eco-fortnight draws to a close, here is one last post on the subject of bumblebees.
The Bumblebee Conservation trust has a collection of activities and fact files for all ages. Click on the link below to find out more:
Read the article in the following link. If you can, print off the worksheet, complete the crossword and label the different parts of a bee.
Finally, click on the Sway to find a series of questions to test your knowledge of bees! Remember to answer in complete sentences.
During Eco fortnight we have encouraged you to
AND SO MANY OF YOU HAVE!
Our final health and wellbeing challenge is
to design a badge that we could use on the blog to encourage others to keep dandelions and grow pollinators
We are really looking forward to seeing your designs.
Go for it BUSY BEES!
If you need some ideas to get you started have a look at the SWAY.
Follow the sway below to learn what is important when it comes to labelling a picture or diagram.
We look forward to seeing and hearing about how you got on.
This is when a group of people get together to sew and make. They share ideas, help , encourage and have a laugh!
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HUGE THANKS TO MRS STILL AND MRS WEBSTER FOR BEING SUCH BUSY SEWING BEES!!
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On BBC 1 there is a programme called ‘The Sewing Bee’ – there are 3 parts
The Pattern Challenge
The Makeover Challenge
The Made to Measure Challenge – let’s rethink this challenge!
To follow the pattern to succeed
Each week on the television programme contestants are given an everyday item to makeover into a new item in a very short amount of time. Last week each contestant had a sleeping bag and they had to make a children’s costume. The results were amazing!
No fabric then why not try this cardboard sewing challenge instead!
I hope you enjoy taking part in one of these challenges or inventing your own!
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My daughter was bored on Saturday. It was snowing! She was grumbling! Eventually she agreed to have a go at making a bee and she surprised herself! She made her own pattern and sewed from lunchtime until late evening until she finished! Sewing is a very important skill for her future career as she is studying to become a vet so this was good practise as well.
Making, sewing, building, tinkering away at a project in your imagination can be very absorbing. You can forget about everything around you for a while!
They spoke about the different types and variety of bees.
The Friends of the Earth website has a useful bee identification guide.
To find out more about pollination visit The Eden Project website.
I have enlisted the help of some amazing bee keepers to help us with this grid task. From just a small request they have produced an amazing amount of videos filled with lots of facts for us to listen to!
To help with writing the factfile there is also the youtube link on the grid. In the sway at the beginning you will see a checklist you can use when watching the videos. When we are listening out for facts it is always a good idea to know what you are listening out for.
In your journal you will need a blank page.
You can save the top of the page for when we do our picture and labelling next week.
You can choose how many sentences filled with facts you would like to write.
If you are describing the bee…. your sentence may start with.
If you are telling us about where it lives… your sentence may start with.
If you are telling us about what the bee does… your sentence may start with.
If you are telling us some interesting facts… I’m going to leave that to you as you might find a fact our bee keepers or myself have never heard of.
