Today we found out how bees are mathematicians. Did you know honey bees can make perfect hexagons? We brainstormed all the shapes we knew. Did you know some shapes fit together perfectly? That's called tessellation. By looking carefully at some honey comb we discovered that bees make hexagons out of wax that tessellate perfectly.
We used popsicle sticks to make our own hexagons and then joined with others to tessellate our hexagons across the floor.
Afterwards we drew a hexagon tessellation in our bee books. Amazing maths work Year 2!!
For our brain break we went to the Mara Kai to check out if there were any flowers for the bees. We saw pansies, stock, borage and rosemary flowers.
We worked so hard we had time to complete a fun bee wordsearch.
Lastly we learnt about how bees communicate by dancing and come up with our own bee dances in groups.
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