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.
