How bees make honey

How bees make honey

Honey gets its nectar from the flower which bees get to make the honey. The nectar is naturally broken down into sugars and put in honeycombs. Nectar is 80% water with some multiplex sugars. If you pulled a honeysuckle blossom out of its  stem. Nectar is the fluid that drops at the end of the blossom. Some bees get their nectar from flowers like clovers, dandelions, berry bushes and fruit tree blossoms. Bees use their long tube tongues to suck the nectar out of the flowers and suck it all in their honey stomachs. Did you know that bees have two stomachs? one is a honey stomach that stomach holds the nectar like a backpack and the regular stomach too. The honey stomach holds 70 mg of nectar and when it's full it almost weighs the same as the size of a bee. Honey bees must collect between 100-1500  flowers to collect the nectar in order to fill up their honey stomachs.

If they only had let’s say  15% nectar, it is not sufficient to make the honey so the bees need to collect as much nectar as they can so they can make nice, sweet and liquidy honey.

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Greek mythology

Author: Ken Jennings

Book review: Amanda

This book is all about greek mythology but changed the story a bit different and confusing. It is all about ancient stories about how Prometheus was being very clever to the Greek Gods how Achilles’s heel led to his death. This book has great illustrations inside and pop quiz to break open the code plus this book is good for your knowledge and is great to challenge your friends and your teachers too.

I recommend this book ages to 9-11 because it is great for knowledgeg and should be able to read harder words they should be able to know they should be able to know.

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How to make chcocolate

How to make chocolate

Cocoa trees are found in West Africa. Chocolate pods is where the chocolate beans come from. When the beans are dried you put it in the sun where they get the flavour from. When the beans arrive to their destination they are blended, cleaned and then dried. When it is dried the shell comes off and only the nibs are left. Then the nibs are grounded into a nice cocoa mass, the mass is then processed into cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

White chocolate does not contain cocoa mass only cocoa butter sugar, milk and lecithin are blended altogether and putted into rollers. They are then anchored into a big tank. The chocolate is heated in a processed machine in a temperate. The temperate involves heating and cooling to the chocolate to make a specific crystal structure. It insures a perfect snack and texture and so that it will shine to each of the chocolate. Once the chocolate is tempered  it is made into solid chocolates bars, truffles, whipped chocolate cream, caramel and chocolate figures.

By: Amanda

Matariki

Why is Matariki so important?

Matariki is the Maori New Year. The old Maori people cherished the ancient ways of how the people breathed new life into Matariki. Matariki is known as the seven stars or the seven sisters. It also means little eyes or little eyes of god. In June, if you keep close eye on the sky you would see a lovely sight of group of stars in the sky within the constellation Taurus. When you see these group of stars at dawn and the new moon at night-- Matariki is here. The Maori New Year has began.

Matariki was a sign to the Maori that the hunting and planting season was coming to an end and a new beginning has come. It is the time to look forward and plan for the next year's hunting or planting of crops. Ritual crops are there to please the god Uenuku, Rongo and Whiro who are the gods of nature and protector of our environment. Nowadays, the Maori New Year is celebrated widely in New Zealand and has become more and more common and popular around the country.

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