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.
When I wander I always spot a change of some sort or other. I love picking natural things up and collecting.
I wonder what you might collect on your wander?
Primary 1 made fantastic dragons and fairies after collecting in the school grounds!
Primary 1’s great ideas inspired me to go out and collect to make a reading book for you. Can you spot what I have collected to make the pictures with?
Now when I think about what I have learned about dandelions I would like to have a lion; and a sun in the grass would be a portal to somewhere special in my next story!
What ideas do you have?
This mild challenge encourages you and your family to investigate the different types of plants, creatures and their habitats – where they live – in your local area. These plants, creatures and us depend on each other to be healthy and survive.
A love of being outdoors and being curious about where we live and what links all living things is a never ending source of learning.
We hope you have enjoyed learning about dandelions – more information to follow!
I can see dandelions appearing in my garden and on my daily walk.
I often spot creatures sunbathing on them or with their head in the centre doing something.
Leave a comment on the blog or in SeeSaw telling us about what you find – photographic evidence would be great to see!
Rainbow Scavenger Hunt
Which rainbow colours are outdoors at this time of year?
Print off the sheet in the mild links and add double sided sticky tape
or
use an egg box to collect items in
or
make your own collection sheet to hunt for items to match the colours of the rainbow.
If you collect leaves and petals you could have a go at pounding them with a hammer or rubbing them onto a piece of thick paper to collect rainbow colours.
Take care, ask an adult for a safe tool to use.
“Yesterday morning when the sun was shining and it was dry I went outside and searched for rainbow colours and…”
Look through the sway below to find out more about what I did.
