ALL ABOUT BEES

The other day, Nikki and I were browsing through an encyclopedia. Actually, that encyclopedia belonged to me and my siblings and I just thought that it would be nice to show him some of the pictures in it. There were a lot of texts but all we studied together were the photos and the captions. Once particular topic caught his interest. It was about bees. So excitedly, I told him all about bees based on the pictures and the captions in the book. Here are some of the photos:


Here, Nikki learned about the queen bee (she's a girl -he still can't grasp "female"-, that she lays eggs and that she's the biggest bee in the hive), the drone (he's a boy and is the queen's partner), and the worker bee (also a female, takes care of the queen and the hive, and gathers nectar from the flowers to make honey).




Parts of the bee. Of course we did not get into too much detail. I just told him to read the words and to take note of the 6 legs that makes bees insects. But so far, Nikki already knows everything here except the pollen basket, the abdomen, and the thorax. We'll get back to this next time.






Nikki already knows his shapes so he was fascinated when he learned that the honeycombs were hexagonal.














Discussed this in passing. I just showed him that bees come from eggs and how they grow.








A photo of a bee visiting a flower.

And to end the lesson, we sang a song from his sing-along book: Buzz, Buzz, Buzz. Ruther got him (and Ethan) this book when we were in Japan. I was really happy with the lesson and as far as I could tell, so was Nikki. =D