Today we learned about the bee cycle and harvested our Mason bee cocoons from the bee house.

The children took turns gently scrapping the cocoons off the tunnel tracks. After that we did an art extension by drawing a flower on a plate, stringing yellow and black pony beads on a chenille stick and twisting it to make a bee and gluing it to our flowers.

In spring we will be watching for food sources (blossoms on our cherry trees, wildflowers in our garden) to see if it is time to bring our cocoons back outside to hatch and continue the cycle!