June 15, 2012

We finished Mary Poppins today in Music.  The kids learned one of the best songs of all time "Supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus"

In our plants and animals unit we talked about how animals make adaptions in order to survive.  Specifically, we talked about honeybees and about whether a hairy honeybee or a bald honeybee would do better at picking up pollen from a flower.  We thought we would do an experiment to find out.  

First we made some honeybees, the bald with a straw stinger and the hairy with the pipe cleaner stinger:

Then we put some pollen (flour) in the middle of our flowers:

Lastly, we dipped our honeybees into the pollen to see what would happen:

We found out that hairy honeybee would be able to collect more pollen and survive better in the real world.

In our building things unit we worked on building houses with various materials.  Check out the kids hard at work:

Have a great weekend!!!