We're Going on a Bee Hunt...

This week's theme is The Bee, Community. We began our week at Little Acorn Learning by going on a bee hunt.

The children quickly found their first bumblebee going from flower to flower in the backyard.

Then they found a few others!

Lilah found a CAT! It was so cute... the big girls were saying "I found a bee!" "Another bee!" and Lilah pointed to Meeko and said "I found CAT".

We looked up high!

In nooks...
In between...
In the gnome home in our woods...
We found nine bumblebees on our hunt and hope to find more this week! Here is the activity from my May 5 Day guide - Enjoy!

Bee Hunt

Supplies Needed:
Binoculars or Magnifying Glass
Nature Journal
Colored Pencils or Crayons

During your nature walk today, take the children on a bee hunt to see the
bees at work. Have them bring along their nature journals and sketch the
flowers and bees that they come across. They may also like to make tally
marks on their journal of how many bees they saw today and their location.
For older children, you can take this activity a bit further and learn more
about pollination and other insect activity.

There is a great program you can participate in with the children called the
Great Sunflower Project. This program helps to track bees to see how they
are doing. They will send you seeds to plant your own sunflowers in return
for your information on how many bees visit your flowers. Their website is
http://www.greatsunflower.org