The Lady closed the door to the hive and they were all trying to get back in. It was cold!
Darius did a great job! What a cute Blue Lamb.We started out with opening Circle time. We figured out the date, looked at our new words: English: Liberty, Spanish: La Leche. Then we went outside to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Words to read and write were: Leek, Left, Leg, Lend, Lens, Lend, Less, Let. They are doing so well sounding out the words and writing the letters.
Free Craft Time: Lorien and Darius painted. They were very creative. Darius painted Journey to the Center of the Earth. And Lorien drew a map to get to the Giants, and the Purple Place.
Field Trip! Yeah, it was finally time to leave! We all piled in our cars and headed out to Bear Foot Honey Farm. There was nobody in the parking lot. We went into the sparce room and the Owners mom came out in curlers and said "Just a minute!" When we all got settled inside we gathered round her and she told us about Bees. 
She had huge pictures to show us upclose what Bees look like. We learned that the Bees are mostly female. There are only a few male Bees. They are called Drones, they don't sting. And the woman's kids used to take them to school as pets and the teachers would get upset that they would put all the others in danger like that! I think I had more fun learning about all that then the kids! 
We looked at the machine they use to shake the Honey out. We tried honey right from the honey comb. We had to chew the wax and suck out the Honey and spit the wax out. Then we went outside to see the Beehives. We got to see a starter hive up close! Lorien and Darius were a bit scared in the beginning, but the lady in charge (I don't remember her name) was just so relaxed and at peace near the Bees we couldn't help but feel the same way. Some Bee's landed on us and we got to see the other Beehives out in the garden area. They plant gardens for the Bees and then let their customers pick whatever they wants. She had tomatoes at the time. We didn't need any, though. Oh, we had so much fun! We went inside and tasted honey after that. There was cinnimon, Mint Thistle, Orange Blossom and so many others! There was Honey from Texas and somewhere over Seas, I can't remember. Of course we bought some. There were honey sticks for the kids. Then we had out snack in the parking lot. (They need picknic benches) Everyone had a great time. And I don't think anyone is scared of Bees anymore. The pics we got were amazing! I'll probably have to do two posts for this one!
She had huge pictures to show us upclose what Bees look like. We learned that the Bees are mostly female. There are only a few male Bees. They are called Drones, they don't sting. And the woman's kids used to take them to school as pets and the teachers would get upset that they would put all the others in danger like that! I think I had more fun learning about all that then the kids! We looked at the machine they use to shake the Honey out. We tried honey right from the honey comb. We had to chew the wax and suck out the Honey and spit the wax out. Then we went outside to see the Beehives. We got to see a starter hive up close! Lorien and Darius were a bit scared in the beginning, but the lady in charge (I don't remember her name) was just so relaxed and at peace near the Bees we couldn't help but feel the same way. Some Bee's landed on us and we got to see the other Beehives out in the garden area. They plant gardens for the Bees and then let their customers pick whatever they wants. She had tomatoes at the time. We didn't need any, though. Oh, we had so much fun! We went inside and tasted honey after that. There was cinnimon, Mint Thistle, Orange Blossom and so many others! There was Honey from Texas and somewhere over Seas, I can't remember. Of course we bought some. There were honey sticks for the kids. Then we had out snack in the parking lot. (They need picknic benches) Everyone had a great time. And I don't think anyone is scared of Bees anymore. The pics we got were amazing! I'll probably have to do two posts for this one!They leave honey out for them to gather in the Winter.
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