Friday 16 September 2016

Term 3 Week 9 Reflection

This week for writing we started a explanation on a water cycle made up of four different parts we had to make a paragraph explaining them all.



Also around week 5 we started our topic sentences which is like the water topic but we get to choose, I chose the life of bees.

W.A.L.T:To learn to write an explanation.
Topic Sentences for our Paragraphs


A Bee is a winged insect that has a stinger usable to gather pollen or sting people if threatened, they  use the pollen to  create honey. You have most likely seen honey in grocery stores, the honey they make is also used to feed their workers, However Queen Bees and bees that are in line to be Queen are fed royal honey, containing finer honey with more pollen.
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Bees have a ranking system and each has a job to complete.
On the top of the ranking system proudly stands the Queen Bee, The Queen Bee has only 2 jobs. To produce eggs which grow up to be Bees and to produce chemical scents to improve the unity of all the Bees. Over the course of her life she only leaves the hive once in order to mate. Although she can normally live up to 4 years, Beekeepers change the queen bee every Autumn to ensure maximum productivity as when they get older they are no longer able to muster as much eggs per day. As a Queen she requires around the clock care and service, some of her worker bees act as royal servants following her around 24/7 because she cannot care for herself, she needs her workers to groom her, feed her and have the drone bees to fertilize her so she can make eggs. Worker bees have to gather pollen, produce honey and create hives
Bees preferred locations to create beehives
Worker bees make hives to store honey and feed themselves throughout winter which is when they can't go outside to look for food. Bee hives are made of six-sided tubes, which are the shapes for optimal honey production because they require less wax to make and can hold more honey. Some hives develop broods which become dark in color over time because of cocoon tracks and travel stains. Other honey bee hives remain light in color. They normally make their hives in rock crevices, hollow trees and other areas that scout bees believe are appropriate for their colony. A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Natural beehives are naturally occurring structures occupied by honeybee colonies, such as hollowed-out trees, while domesticated honeybees live in man-made beehives, often in an apiary. These man-made structures are typically referred to as beehives. Several species of Apis live in hives, but only the western honey bee and the eastern honeybee are domesticated by humans. A natural beehive is comparable to a bird's nest built with a purpose to protect the dweller.
Bees have a busy daily life.



Also for maths we have been doing basics facts, maintenance questions and then 10 questions that are shared with us in a doc.

Lastly on thursday we had someone from ST johns come to us and explain to us about cpr and bandaging, it was fun but it hurt my arms trying to do cpr on the doll thing manican guy thing.



1 comment:

  1. Hi Riley

    Awesome piece of writing, you had a lot of information about the Queen Bee and the ranking system.

    Yours sincerely Riley.F

    ReplyDelete

Thank-you for your positive, thoughtful, helpful comment.