Good morning Primary 2! I hope you are all well. Please let us know how you are getting on and you can post pictures as well to :
wlpolkemmet-ps-primary2@westlothian.org.uk
For Literacy, watch the following video about how bees make honey and then answer the questions below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AECtOFpbgVs
Questions:
- Why do bees make honey?
- What is the main ingredient bees need to make honey?
- Where can they find this ingredient?
- Are worker bees male or female?
- Where does the worker bee store this ingredient once it extracts it with its really long tongue?
- How many times will a bee might have to visit a flower to fill itself up?
- How does the ingredient gathered by a worker bee get thickened up into honey?
- What does the last bee in the process do?
- What shape is the wax honey comb in the bee hive? How many sides does this shape have?
- Why do the bees create a wax lid over the honey comb cells?
Can you create a picture story board about how bees make honey? This is a series of pictures which goes through the process of how bees make honey step by step. Here is an animated video which may help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uES_6CIgle0
Maths – Count backwards from 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS60rraBhz4
Count backwards from 100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwgJmW1uvg&list=PL8OcbSHKSLNuVcxp-225OAbaQS_b0Wjmz
Counting in 2’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ&list=PL8OcbSHKSLNuVcxp-225OAbaQS_b0Wjmz&index=2
Counting in 10’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftati8iGQcs&list=PL8OcbSHKSLNuVcxp-225OAbaQS_b0Wjmz&index=4
