by Mrs Alison

The children have enjoyed learning about where honey comes from. We read a story called ‘The Beeman’ about a bee keeper and we also read a poem about the importance of honey bees.

The children learnt all about beehives and honeycomb and  even tried some of the equipment that beekeepers use.

We tasted some honey from the beehive.

We learnt that bees do a waggle dance to tell the other bees which direction the best flowers are in, so that they can collect nectar to make honey. The children enjoyed trying their own waggle dance.

We decided to use the honey to make a delicious honey cake for all of the children to try.

Some of the children wanted to learn some more about bees, so we had a look at our big encyclopaedia and used the iPad to scan the QR code. It showed us a video about bees collecting nectar.