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Bee Hives

What Are Bee Hives For?

Bees make their hives to store food and shelter the bees. Bees make their
hives to protect them. The bees store anything from eggs, to pollen, to honey.
When the bee hive is getting built by the bees, the bees produce beeswax
to create a strong and hard interior of the beehive. They use the beeswax
to make these perfect little hexagon shapes in the hive. They store the food
and eggs in them. These are called honeycombs.

 Jobs Inside The Hive

The three main types of bees are the worker bee, drone bee and the queen bee. When the queen lays an egg she can either lay a fertilized egg or an unfertilized egg. A fertilized egg hatches into a worker bee or queen bee, while an unfertilized egg will hatch into a drone bee. A worker bee is only female and they have all the jobs to do from collecting nectar, producing honey, keeping the hive clean, guarding the hive and making wax. For every 100 worker bees there are, there is a drone bee. Unlike the female worker bees, drones do not have stingers and gather neither nectar nor pollen. The drone bees primary job is to mate with a queen bee. After mating season the drone bee gets kicked out of the hive. The drone either dies of starvation or freezes. The queen bee is the most important bee of them all and only has one job, she produces new bees. Without the queen bee or a drone the whole hive would die out. 

Our report will:

• Bee interesting!
• Give information about a topic of our choice related to bees.
• Show a clear link to our planning.
• Start with an opening statement about our topic.
• Have at least 3 paragraphs.  Each paragraph will have an opening statement and a
• series of facts related to that statement.
• Include some complex or compound sentence structures.
• Include at least one diagram, photograph, illustration or map to go with the text.
• Finish with a general statement about the topic.
• Use information from at least 3 different sources.  This information will be written in our
• own words and we will write down our sources at the end of our report.

Bee an Expert

Bees are very important to the planet. Like how they can pollinate flowers and give us honey. Pollination is when the bee collects nectar by digging into the flower, but at the same time, the pollen sticks onto their skin like velcro from the male part.  The nectar then gets put into their crop. The crop is the special nectar storage of the bee. When the bees travel to another flower the pollen then rubs off on the female part to make more seeds. Then when the crop is full of nectar the bee then travels back to the hive to make honey. This is all important because without bees a lot of plants would die because there is nothing to help the pollen travel to make seeds. 

Lake Daniell Recount

On Wednesday the 12th of June room one and room eight set off for the
Lake Daniel tramp. We left school at eight thirty in the morning so we had time
to get there.

It took around an hour and a half to get to Springs Junction. I went in the car group
with Nathan K, Hannah K and Jennae Topliss. When we got there we all waited for
the other car groups to get there. Walking to the lake was easy, on the way back not
so much. Of course I was a little bit tired getting there, but we had lunch at the lake
to restore all our energy.

The lake was really shallow at the edge. Around the time of tramping there the new
hut was getting built. At the lake there was also a wharf going out about 5 metres.

As soon as we got to the lake it started raining which meant we were going to walk
back in the rain. Walking back in the rain wasn’t that bad because most people were
too hot. It was two hours one way. The time between breaks doubled since we started
walking back. After half way walking back my leg was hurting so bad but I just kept
going.

We walked in to Lake Daniell because we were all learning about hypothermia and
the native around the area.

I really liked the walk and I can’t wait to do another walk like that again.

Lake Daniell Group Pamphlet

The Umbles

The Umbles

The Umbles

• Stumbles - Loss of motion, slowed motion

• Mumbles - Slurred and slow speech, sleepiness and confusion

• Fumbles - Slow reaction time, dropping objects

• Grumbles - Change in behavior, having a negative attitude

Callaghan's Ridge Day Tramp

On the 11 of april our class and room 8 went off to do the Callaghans Ridge day tramp. The day for a outdoor activity started as usual. We got our car group together and headed off. I went with my dad, Lincon, Tyler, and Ms Truman (The Principal). We went through Kumara to Callaghan. The walk started off raining but it cleared throughout the walk. Every 30 minutes we stopped for a brake. I was wearing ridgeline gear so I think it was the first time in my life when I actually wanted it to rain. When we stopped everyone put there rain jackets on and had some snacks (it was still raining). About 10 minutes after we stopped the sun just decided it would just become sunny so I got sweaty again. (2 hours into the walk) we built our shelter to have lunch under.