Today, 4C researched bees. They are amazing!

We started with an AR (Augmented Reality) bee flying in our classroom

And here is a real bee feasting on a dead nettle:

The class then spent some time researching bees and they discovered some amazing things like:

• bees have five eyes – two are compound eyes and three are small, simple eyes pointing upwards. Their eyes work completely differently to ours and are more sensitive to certain colours
• bees use their antennae to smell things and they leave a smell behind on flowers they have visited using their feet
• their wings beat at about 200 times per second
• bees that live together in colonies are called social bees. Some bees live alone and are called solitary bees

Here is some of their reports: