God Save the Bees!

One of the best things about FLL, is that it asks you help out the community in a special way with the project portion. This year Animal Allies asked us to pick an animal, and identify a problem we could solve with the way humans interact with the animal. As a group we decided to research the mason bee, after a few weeks of studying other animals.

Once we picked the bee, we knew we needed to come up with a solution to help aid them in our own community. We know that our families and neighbors care about their gardens, and keep well manicured lawns. The problem is that we often kill the food supply and homes of the mason bee! So we decided to build special Bee Sanctuaries to help aid our friends.  We also developed special seed bombs.

With aid from Coach Sue, she taught us how to mold and create seed bombs. Our seed bombs are pretty special. They are especially designed to help our local mason bee.  They use special manure,  clay, and seeds for our friends. Ethan specially molded and help with this project.

 

Mr. Mazzie, helped us with our Bee Houses. Noah came up a bee house design, and logo for on top. We each took turns drilling all the holes in the houses.  His lawn sign is spot on!

Finally we have been working on our presentation. Mrs. Mazzie helped us come up with our beautiful costumes. Isn't Sophie just the sweetest flower? Jake will get to play this role too. We think Pink is also his color!

 
 We created some other props, with the help of Coach Sue.  We think Nick makes the perfect little mason bee, and Sammy and Billy are strong narrators. We can't wait to share with you our skit.