Thursday, November 17, 2016

Bee Facts🐝

What do bees eat?

Honey



What do bees live in? 
Bee hives and trees.



How can we help bees?
Plant bee friendly flowers in your 
garden, buy local, raw honey.



How do bees communicate?
Bees communicate with the waggle 
dance talk.



What special job do bees have?
Make honey, feed their queen 
and help us survive!



What does pollinate mean?
The transfer of pollen from 
another to the stigma.


Why are bees important?
They pollinate our fruit and 
veg-broccoli,squash,apples, 
almonds. They help us breathe.
Some 84% of the crops grown
need bees to pollinate them!





Bee Facts🐝
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- a honey bee 
visits 50-100 flowers during
a collection trip.

- the worker bee and the queen bee are both female bees.

- a colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honey bees
and one queen.

- honey bees have been around for more than 30,000
years.


- there are approximately 20,00 types of bees in the world!


- a bee's brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame
seed.


- The queen bee can live up to 5 years and is the only bee that lays up to 2500 eggs per day.

Sunday, November 6, 2016

The hailstorm

       THE HAILSTORM AT SCHOOL!
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On the day of HALLOWEEN there was  a HAILSTORM [dun dun dun]! It felt cold, like you were in the freezer! I heard thunder rolling and I saw a car go boom into a giant rock! I felt like it was the end of me [NOOO]! I shivered when I felt the wind go through my hair! Everyone went CRAZY!





                                      By Louise