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We are starting a new unit from Experience Early Learning (formerly Mother Goose Time) about Bees and Butterflies. The first two weeks are bees and the second butterflies.
Today we learned that bees are our friends by making honey and pollinating flowers so we can get food. We will be watching this all summer when we have vegetables growing in our gardens.
We learned that there are different kinds of bees and wasps. We watched a video about the queen bee and they decide that on this particular queen bee we watched the red spot on her head is her crown!
The children saw a jar of honey with honeycomb in it and they were fascinated. We had lots of learning activities and we learned that honeycomb is made up of hexagons.
We painted a honeycomb using bubble wrap and yellow paint. We also played with hexagons and bees to make honeycomb in a different way.
I asked them what they thought honey tasted like-one child said "Like Bees"! Thankfully they all loved the honey. We are excited to learn all about bees for the next few weeks with our newest Experience Preschool theme!
We spoke about what bees eat and how they pollinate, without bees we wouldn’t have plant foods.
Our preschool class read a book and watched a video about how bees dance to tell where food is.
We learned about the letter K, made bee-colored sticks to make the letters K and z and played around to find out what other letters, like N, H, etc we could make too. The children played a bee pollen game that was lots of fun as well.
Don't forget to check back next week to see what we're up to as we continue our Bees & Butterflies theme from Experience Early Learning (formerly Mother Goose Time).
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