Honeybee Song(s)

While doing online research about bees, Ms Kate and I found a site by Haagen Dazs ice cream. Students had so much fun "doing the honeybee" one wrote his own song. Once he shared his work, we discussed ways to improve the song. After talking, the class decided that pollination is something most people forget about. Everyone knows bees make honey. Less people are aware that one-third of our food is a direct result of bee pollination.

Here is what we've written thus far. It would be the chorus of a longer song. We started by chanting the phases of the insect life cycle. Enjoy!

Helping the Honeybees

2nd Grade students are currently learning about insects. While we were waiting for our mealworms to arrive, we decided to learn more about bees. Bees scare some of us, but they serve a very important purpose. Bees also get a bad rap since they are often mistaken for wasps (who are much more likely to sting.)

Here are some "fun facts" we learned about bees:

Fact: Bees pollinate about 1/3 of the foods we eat. Without bees, foods like blueberries, strawberries and cherries would become harder to find.

Fact: The queen bee is the only female in a hive to lay eggs. The queen can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day!

Fact: The honeybee can only sting once. Then it dies.
A wasp is able to sting many times.

Fact: Honeybees "dance" to communicate the location of food
sources to other members of the colony.
Next post: Our song!!!!