NZ Sign Language

Information Report On Bees

WALT

 We are learning to write an information report.

Success Criteria:

 We will plan and then write an information report on a topic of our choice related to bees.

Our report will:

• Be interesting!
• Give information about a topic of our choice related to bees.
• Show a clear link to our planning.
• Start with an opening statement about our topic.
• Have at least 3 paragraphs.  Each paragraph will have an opening statement
• and a series of facts related to that statement.
• Include some complex or compound sentence structures.
• Include at least one diagram, photograph, illustration or map to go with the text.
• Finish with a general statement about the topic.
• Use information from at least 3 different sources. This information will be written
• in our own words and we will write down our sources at the end of our report.

What Would The World Be Like Without Bees?

Bees are declining at a frightening rate and this is why?

 Did you know bees are declining at a frightening rate in the past decade?
This is happening because of colony collapse disorder,  global warming, the
varroa mite and pesticides. It has been found that tiny amounts of neonics
have caused honeybees to struggle to find where their food sources are or
how to find their way home again. Colony collapse disorder is when they
slowly die out or abandon their hives. During the winter the varroa mite
sucks the honeys bees blood and attacks the honey bees developing larvae. 

A world without bees just couldn’t sustain because the bees feed ninety percent
of humanity and without them we would have half the amount of fruit and vegetables.
  Some foods they pollinate are tomatoes, strawberries, lemons and more. Without bees
we would lose heaps of plants because we need bees to pollinate them so that they
can grow into fruit or vegetables. Bees pollinate flowers to get pollen to make into
nectar, but some of the pollen sticks to their fur like velcro and when it lands on
another flower the pollen brushes off them and the pollen goes on the other flower
and then that flower makes seeds.  So without bees we would not be able to have
pizza because they pollinate the tomatoes that go on the base. 

If bees went extinct we would lose most of the plants they pollinate.
This would mean that the foods would be less available to other people
because the farmers will want to keep lots of the food to themselves and
maybe their friends. If bees went extinct it would mean more work for farmers
and others because they would have to pollinate the plants by hand.  This would
be more expensive and a lot more work for heaps of other people. The prices of the
food would go up. To stop bees from going extinct we need to make sure that we look
after them and try to stop using pesticides and make sure that we look after our planet. 

Sources

I Got Most Of My Information Of This Link

This Is About Neonics

This Is A Video That I got Information Off

Beach Cookout

Beach Cookout

Today Room 1 and 8 had a beach cookout along the Karoro beach by the Tasman sea.
The supervisors were Mrs Glue and Mis Kemp, (Teachers) Mrs Maclean and (Teacher Aid)
Matt, Tim Clark, Angus and Mrs Swinburn (Adults). Nathanael, Dakota, Charlie,
Nathanael and I were in a group. The adult supervisor was Tim, Dakota's dad.

First we dug a little pit for our fire to go in then we collected sticks to make a t-p.
Then we used matches to start our fire. To get our fire going we collected straw.
The fire went great, but it was sort of hard because the wind would change direction
and go everywhere.

For our main we cooked taty fry, which is potato, bacon, onion and rosemary herbs.
The Taty Fry was very yummy. Next time I would not put much onion in. The potato
was my favourite. the bacon quiet fatty and in big pieces so next time I would chop
it up a bit smaller and cut the fatty pieces off.  For our desert we made pancakes
with maple syrup.

We did the beach cookout for the William Pike Challenge, to develop new skills and to
have fun. We had team roles and we helping each other to cook and put the ingredients together. We each had to bring some ingredients. 

For the beach cookout  I brang a Whisk ¼ cup, ½ cup and 1 cup measurements
2 tsp vanilla ¼ cup sugar ½ cup maple syrup. Charlie brang 10  Plastic Plates, Tsp and
tbsp measurements and a Wooden board for chopping Lots of Fresh herbs Lots of Salt
and Pepper 6 tbsp oil 2 cups flour and 2 cups of milk. Dakota brang 2 spatulas, Knife,
Bowl, 8 bacon rashers and 2 eggs. Nathanael brang a Frying pan, five knives, five forks
6-8 potatoes, 4 cups water and onion.

My favourite parts were putting the fire out because it sounded like bombs exploding.
My other favourite part was eating the pancakes. I really enjoyed the beach cookout.

Callagans Ridge

Callaghans Ridge

Yesterday we came to school in mufti. When Dakota got to school she
gathered a bunch of yellow rope and a blue tarpaulin. Jennae, Jack
Wairini and I went in Miss Kemp's car. 

To get to Callaghan's Ridge we went through Kumara.
Then we went down a road that was just before Dillman's town.
When we got there we dove ahead of everyone. When Miss Kemp
stopped we hoped out of her car and waited for the other to walk down.

We had a scavenger hunt that we had to complete in teams. Mackenzie,
Brighid and I were in a team. We had to find different kinds of trees, fungi,
blue mushrooms and different kinds of birds. While we were walking we
saw lots of tomtits, house sparrows and fantails. 

There were lots of ponds with water in them, there were lots of little
streams that were cutting into the track so you had jump over the
streams. There were always shallow-ish puddles that were clean with
fresh water. There was a lot of mud and water on the track. Sometimes
I would stand in it or I would walk around it.

As I kept walking I heard funny noises, the funny noises were just one kea.
The kea was making a lot of noise. It was walking up in a high tree. The
kea was walking around and jumping on different branches. 

We stopped at 12.00 to make our bivvies  

Bee Experts

Learning Intentions

We are learning to understand the importance of bees in
nature through learning about pollination and interdependence.

We are learning to take key information from an information report
and write it in our own words. 

Writing task: Bee experts

Write a paragraph about how bees pollinate flowers. 

The paragraph should:

• Have a heading.
• Have a minimum of four sentences.
• Explain how bees pollinate flowers.
• Tell us why this is important.
• Be aimed for Miss Ireland’s class so they can understand this.
• Be written in your own words.
• Use your photo of your flower cut in half.
• Use an additional photo or diagram if you wish.

How Do Bees Pollinate?

Have you ever wondered how flowers get pollinated or how bees pollinate them?
Bees are very important to us humans and other animals on the food chain. These
are critical pollinators.  They pollinate things you wouldn't even think of, such as
tomatoes, lemons nuts, apples, carrots and so on. This is crucial because we
would only have two thirds of the food in the supermarkets if it weren't for bees.
We would also have less vitamins than we have now. 

 So how do Bees pollinate? 

The innocent bee goes into the flower looking for nectar but doesn't know
it's getting set up to reproduce the flower seeds. As the bee goes into the
flower to get the nectar it gets pollen brushed on it from the anther (male part)
part of the flower. When the bee has done it's stuff( eating), it goes  to the next
flower where the pollen brushes off it and onto the stigma (female part). This is
fertilizing the seeds so the flower can reproduce. The pollen from that flower
can only go to the same species of flower. 

Lake Daniell

Lake Daniell Tramp

On Wednesday the 12th of January we went to Lake Daniells. I traveled with Milan,
Stephen and Aimee. On the way there we got to have some lollies in the car. When
we arrived in Reefton we went to the toilet and had a little run around on the Reefton campground.

When we arrived at the Lake Daniell we got ready and I put my raincoat on and waited
till everyone was ready. We all got numbers, my number was twenty six. We had a
sheet of paper which was our scavenger hunt with plants and animals. My favourite
thing on the piece of paper was the rainbow trout and the nz bat. When were about 5
minutes into the track we saw Sluice Box creek. The colour of the Sluice Box creek
was a turquoise colour.

As we kept walking we stopped 15 minutes later to check that everyone was okay.
While we were stopped I had a drink of water. I saw a tree that was a right angle. We
kept walking and then we stopped half an hour later to have a snack. There were heaps
of little creeks coming down from the mountains.

Later that day we arrived at Lake Daniells, everyone had their lunch and a drink of water.

When I finished my lunch I walked onto the platform and the water was so clear that you
could see the bottom. I heard heaps of bird noises while I was in the bush.

On the way back I walked with Mackenzie and Jennae. Some of the way we ran
and some of the way we walked. There were heaps of bridges and steps. There were
heaps of views of the river. As we walked back we the river was getting greener and bluer.
When we got back to the start we had wait under the small hut for the others to arrive.

The Umbles Hypothermia Symptoms

The “Umbles”

• Hypothermia Symptoms

WALT manage risks on a winter tramp in the Southern Alps.

1) Mumbles: Speaking unclearly and words are not right.

2) Grumbles: Getting grumpy easily over nothing.

3) Stumbles: Being clumsy and your feet and legs aren’t        working properly.

4) Fumbles: You can’t use your hands properly.

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