Investigating the Bumble Bee

We never get tired of bumble bees!  We are so interested in them, that we are filling our room with books about bees, watching videos on how they live and make honey, spelling words about bees, and of course making creative art pieces ..........

Look at some of the bees we made!  Ryan and Ella worked together to make a sign that says "BEES" for all of the bees.......

The children said they need a "BIG" bee, so we created 3 separate art areas with materials to make the parts of the bee.

First we had these materials for the eyes.......

These materials were for the wings.

These materials were for the body..........

We were so excited when we saw everything, that we got straight to work....

We are working very hard on our cutting technique! ;0)

Raina needed help with the wings.  The children needed to manipulate the materials and weave them in the wings so that they would stay on.  Raina's kept falling when we picked up the wings.  So of course, her good friend Jack came to the rescue!

He showed Raina how to do it ;0)

And the children loved gluing all of the shiny beads on the big eyes!

Now our "queen bee" is flying over our castle with her small bumble bees behind her!  It is just as the children wanted!  The bees are trying to get in the castle, but they haven't succeeded yet!

After we watched a National Geographic video on the bee, we drew pictures of the bees making honey!

These little pink dots are "all of the bumble bees" - Amanda

Lucky for us our friends Devyn and Jack brought in some honey!  We tasted it on our crackers and we all agreed that the honey is delicious!

We also spent some time in the art studio with Ms. Marjon.  She showed us pictures of bees and we worked one on one with her to create "bee masterpieces"! 

Tomorrow we will bake................

Honey Make My Morning Muffins

we found this recipe on honey.com. 

We are excited to know that there is actually a National Honey Board!  We are starting to research the site http://www.honey.com/ for recipes and information on bees and honey.  We have even found different opportunities for children on these sites, however, they are for older children.  That will not stop us from trying to get our children involved!!!! ;0)  Maryam is working on contacting different people in the organization to see if they will provide our children with materials.  Our children may be young, but we all know they are capable of doing things that older children do!

We will keep you posted on our progress.  And for anyone who would like to look at the recipe, you can click on the following link..........

http://www.honey.com/nhb/recipes/recipe-details?RecipeID=832