Explanation Writing

We recieved on email from a year 3/4 school in Pukekohe asking us, "how do bees make honey?" We knew that to answer this question we were going to have to research and complete a piece of explanation writing. We have been working hard on this piece of writing and have begun publishing these using Google Docs. Check out some of the writing we have created:

How do bees make honey?

Bees are insects. Bees are the only animals that make honey. They collect the nectar from flowers.

Nectar is like sweet water. When they collect the nectar from flowers the take it back to the hive.

Bees have wings. They have wings so they can make the honey thick. Average bees live in a hive. They live in the hive for six weeks. Bees work for the queen. They also follow her because she is big.

Drone bees do hard work. Drone bees are male bees.

All bees are vegetarian. Bees know there is nectar in flowers. They know because they can smell with their feet. New Zealand is lucky to have bees. We are lucky because bees can make honey for humans.

By Ashleigh

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How do bees make honey?

Have you ever wondered how a bee makes honey?

The first thing bees do, is go and search for flowers to suck nectar out. Nectar is the centre of a flower. Nectar is sweet water.

Bees are insects. Bees are the only creatures that make honey. Bees smell with their feet.

The second things bees do, is they put the nectar in the honeycomb cells.Bees use their wings to make honey thicker. They put wax over it.

Bees live for six weeks that is the average life of a bee.

Bees make  honey because they're are attracted to the nectar. They eat honey because they are vegetarian. Honey is a sweet liquid it can be a solid as well.

Drone bees are male bees they do hard work.

All bees are vegetarian.They always follow the Queen bee. Bees smell with their feet.

By Elizabeth

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 How do bees make honey?

Honey is sticky and sweet food made by bees. Bees fly around and look for flowers to get nectar. Bees are the only one that makes honey. Bees don’t eat meat.

Bees go and find flowers to get nectar out of the flowers. They go to a flower and collect the nectar and bring it back to the bee hive.

Bees go and find flowers to get the nectar. The bees suck the nectar out of the flowers. Bees are the only ones that make honey. Bees take nectar back to the hive.

Bees can fly. They smell with their feet. They eat the honey and they like honey. Bees have stingers.

By Sione

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How do bees make honey?

Honey is a sweet food made by bees because nectar comes from flowers. There is a queen and she is the boss too.

Bees suck the nectar that was in the flowers to make honey and to eat it.

Next the bees go to their hives and the bees give it to the worker bees.

Finally bees flap there there wings to soften the nectar to make it into honey. Bees suck nectar from flowers to make honey.

Bees make honey in their hive and bees are clever insects.

By Dayna

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How do bees make honey?

Honey is a sweet food made by bees. Bees do not eat meat. They are vegetarians. Nectar is sweet water.

First they suck the nectar from the flower and put it onto their body.

Next Bees take the honey to the beehive and they give the nectar to the worker bees.

Finally they take the honey to the worker bees. This is where the bees turn the nectar into honey.

Honey is a sweet food made by bees. Bees go to the hive and and take the nectar to the worker bees.

By Sana

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How do bees make honey?            

Bees are vegetarian. There are all different kinds of bees. Bees are the only insects that make honey.  

Bees go to a flower and collect nectar from a flower. They smell with their feet to get nectar.

They beat their wings to make honey. They use their legs to take the nectar to their hive so they can make honey.  

You can eat honey from the bees. Nectar is a sweet water. Bees are the ones that make honey.  

Bees a vegetarian. They smell with their feet to find nectar.

By Luci

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