The children looked at a short clip about mini beasts. We learned some new facts such as a woodlouse has 14 legs and an exoskeleton, a spider has eight eyes to match its eight legs and a worm has no lungs! After the clip we talked about the mini beasts we had identified and what we had learned about them.

“If we have no bees, a flower won’t be alive. We could give them something to make them feel good”
-R
“Water them and give them some respect”
- Alma

After listening to a child discussing what would happen if we did not have bees anymore, we wondered how we could attract more into our garden. Imogen explained that the bees need to pollinate so we need to give them some food. But where does the food come from? The children wanted to plant lots of flowers in the garden to attract lots of bees.

The children helped to plant some bulbs and seeds. We plan to grow them and plant them in our nursery garden to attract not only bees but lots of other minibeasts. We planted nasturtium, iris, marigolds, lobelia, geranium, gladioli and mesembryanthemum. Our garden is going to look beautiful when it is in full bloom this year. We chatted about how we will care for our garden and the children were unanimous in their ideas of water the seeds, give them sunlight and lots of fresh air!

“I planted daisy chains”
-Ted
“The bees will be sad because they won’t be able to get any pollen and they can’t make honey for us”
-Alma