We are learning how to write explanations.  Room 1 has learnt that explanations need to start with a how or why question.

Here are two explanations we all wrote together

How do bees make honey?

People love to eat honey but bees do not make honey for people they make it for themselves.

First, bees have to go out and suck up the nectar from the flowers.  Next, the bees go back to the hive and vomit out nectar into the honeycomb.  Then the worker bees stir the nectar with their proboscis and lots of other bees fan the nectar with their wings.  The water evaporates from the nectar and leaves some sticky syrup called honey.

Bees have to work hard to make honey for feeding their babies and themselves during winter.

How do plants make seeds?

It is important that plants make seeds so we can eat lots of fruit and vegetables.

First, a plant needs to grow a flower.  Once it has a flower, this flower needs to be visited by a bee.  Next, the pollen gets stuck to the hair on the bee.  A bee flies away and takes pollen from one flower to another flower.  Then the pollen falls off the bee and travels down the pistil of the flower.  After that the pollen joins together with an egg and the plant grows a seed.  Finally, the flower dies and the wind blows the seeds away to a new place.  Later another seed grows into a plant.

This is the plants life cycle.

Room 1 teach your family all about why these are good explanations.