Week 5.4: Pippa's Flight of the Bumblebee ....

Last week the children performed a "pollination" ritual to Flight of the Bumblebee music.  In our previous grouptime, the children decided to make bumble bee fighter jets and flowers from apple trees.  The bee children practiced flying energetically to the music.  Their facial expressions showed their delight in meeting their flower friends and showing how they felt to make a connection with the flowers.  The flowers received pollen, and turned into apples and the bees were able to make honey from the flower nectar and deposit it into the honey jar.

The exchange of pollen and nectar, a friendship is born

Honey bees putting honey on the honey jar

The grand denouement: the bees fly away

The children enjoyed the music and making the flowers and bee jets.  While the boys were very eager to get to the end of the play so that they could fly their planes.  I couldn't help but notice how the children expressed themselves:  the flowers stood quietly, still and patiently waited for the bees, so that they could reveal their apples. The bees moved quickly, with a sense of purpose.