Today at the art table Maureen talked to the children about bees, and invited the children to cut out and stick together amazing bee puppets.  We went out into the orchard and looked at the flowers that have been planted specially for bees.  We listened to them buzzing on the lavender and on the heather flowers.  Then we took our own bees up to the corner of the orchard where the bee hives are going to be placed in the spring.  Our bees loved the orchard.  We are really looking forward to seeing even more real ones next year.  When we came in, we watched a video on you tube of a man putting bees into a new hive- lots of them with just one queen.  He had to protect his bee hives from bears!  At least we don’t have to worry about that!  Our bee hives will be inside cages to stop anyone going too close!