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 Books:
| Mr. Bumble
by Kim Kennedy
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The Bee Tree
by Patricia Polacco |
| Bumblebee, Bumblebee, Do You Know Me?
by Anne Rockwell
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Honey
Pam Robson |
Busy, Buzzy Bees
Rookie Read-About Science
by Allan Fowler
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The Honey Makers
by Gail Gibbons |
Animal Close-Ups - The Bee
by Paul Starosta
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Honeybee's Busy Day
by Richard Fowler |
The Honeybee and the Robber
by Eric Carle
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The Life Cycle of the Honeybee
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Bees
by
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The Life and Times of the Honeybee
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 Songs & Poems:
| The Bee Hive
Here is the beehive
Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Soon they come creeping
Out of the hive
One and two and three, four, five.
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Do You Like to Buzz?
[tune: "Do Your Ears Hang Low?"]
Do you like to buzz?
Are you covered all in fuzz?
Do you call a hive a home
In the garden where you roam?
Do you know how to make honey,
Are your stripes a little funny?
Do you like to buzz? |
I'm A Little Honeybee
[tune: "I'm A Little Teapot"]
I'm a little honeybee
Yellow and black
See me gather
Pollen on my back
What the queen bee tells me
I must do
So I can make sweet honey for you!
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What do you suppose?
A bee sat on my nose!
What do you think?
He gave me a wink.
He said, "I beg your pardon.
I thought you were the garden."
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Five Busy Bees
Five busy bees on a lovely spring day.
The first one said, "Let's fly away."
The second one said, "We'll drink some nectar sweet."
The third one said, "Let's get pollen on our feet."
The fourth one said, "And then we'll make some honey."
The fifth one said, "Good thing it's warm and sunny!"
So the five busy bees went flying along,
Singing a happy honeybee song.
Bzzzzzzzzzz!
[From KinderKorner]
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Mrs. Worker Bee
[tune: "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain"]
They'll be flying 'round the flowers in the yard. Buzz, buzz!
They'll be flying 'round the flowers in the yard. Buzz, buzz!
They'll be flying 'round the flowers; they'll be flying 'round the flowers;
They'll be flying 'round the flowers in the yard. Buzz, buzz!
They'll be slurping up the nectar when they come. Gulp, gulp!
They'll be scooping up the pollen with their legs. Fun, fun!
They'll be feeding all the babies in the hive. Eat, eat!
They'll be cooling down the hvie with their wings. Flap, flap!
They'll be making lots of honey that we'll eat. Yum, yum! |
 Reading & Writing:
 A,B,C Hives center game. Enlarge copies of a beehive on tan tagboard. Program each beehive with a letter for the particular sounds you wish you focus on. Laminate for durability. Put clipart pictures that begin with sounds of the focus letters onto construction paper bees. Students will match the pictures on each of the bees with the correct "A-Hive", "B-Hive", or "C-Hive."
Read Honeybee's Busy Day by Richard Fowler. Recall and chart all the places Honeybee traveled and the characters he met. As a group, brainstorm other places he could go and different animals he could see.
Make a class book. Give each child a sheet of paper and hive him illustrate an idea from the list. On the first page of the classroom book, write "Honeybee was busy finding nectar to make honey when..." Then complete this sentence by writing each child's dictation on his individual page. Duplicate a bee pattern and laminate it as well as the pages of the book. Use a scrap of laminating film to make a hexagonal flap for the last page of the book. Cut a slit in each page with an x-acto knife; then bind all the pages together on the left-hand side.
P is for Pollinate! Duplicate a hive pattern. Color, cut out and laminate a hive pattern. Tape it to a plastic bowl. Make several construction paper copies of a flower pattern. Scatter the flowers on the floor around the hive in your circle time area. Place a piece of Alpha-Bits cereal on each flower. Explain to the small group that bees collect pollen from flowers and bring it back to the hive to eat. Invite each child, in turn, to act like a bee and then "fly" to a flower. Have her pick up the pollen (cereal), identify the letter and its sound, and then bring it back to the hive. When all the pollen has been collected and put in the hive, reward the "bees" with an Alpha-Bits cereal treat!
[ Mailbox Magazine, Judy Lesnansky, Youngstown, OH)
Read The Honeybee and The Robber by Eric Carle. After reading the story, have the children use flannelboard characters to tell the story in their own words as they recall the sequence of events. (Character pieces can be found in Monthly Idea Book, May, Preschool/Kindergarten)
Honeybee Lotto . Make a class supply of a beehive pattern. Program each hive with a different set of letters or sight words. As you call out the letters or words, have children use pieces of Honeycomb cereal to cover the corresponding letters/words on their cards.
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Math:
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Inspecting Insects worksheet. Match the insect sets with the correct numeral. (numbers 7-12)
[Teacher's Helper, April/May/June 1995]
Buzzing Bees worksheet. Match the number of bees in their hives with the correct numeral.
[Teacher's Helper, April/May/June 1995]
Pick a Pect of Pollen. Math center. Make a supply of construction paper flowers. Place the flowers on a table and then place pollen(bingo chips) in the center of each flower. To play the game, the first players rolls a die, read the number, and then collects that many pieces of pollen from the flowers. The game continues until all of the pollen has been collected.
Time Flies! Center game (time to the hour). Match the time on the clocks on the beehive with the time on the bee cutouts.
Make peanut butter play-doh following a recipe. (measurement) Ingredients: 4 T. peanut butter, 4 T. honey, and 1 cup powdered milk. Mix the peanut butter and honey in a bowl. Gradually add the powdered milk and knead until the dough is no longer sticky.
Queen Bee For a Game (Hexagon practice) Make a set of playing cards (3 circles, 3 squares, 3 triangles, 3 rectangles, 12 hexagons) Purchase an inexpensive crown for the "queen." Two players begin this game by suffling the cards and placing them facedown in a basket. Each child will, in turn, pick a card. If the player chooses a card with a honeycomb-shaped hexagon, have the child lay it in front of her. If the card is not a hexagon, have the child put it in another basket for discards. The first child to draw 3 hexagons is the queen bee and gets to wear the crown for the next round. Have the children shuffle the cards and begin again.
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Science:
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Honeybees are social insects that live in hives. They eat nectar ( a sweet liquid made by flowers) which they turn into honey.
Explain to children that bees are also useful because they make wax. People use beeswax in candles, lipsticks, and waterproofing compounds.
Share that wax has a special quality that doesn't allow water to go through it. Give each child a piece of white paper and a piece of Gulfwax.Have him draw a picture with the wax, then paint over it with watercolors. Like magic, the wax resists the water, and the invisible pictures suddenly appears.
A good introduction to the study of bees is this five senses experiment. Give each child a cup with a small amount of honey. Have the children use their five senses to examine the honey, but do not tell them what it is. After they examine, have them describe the honey. Write their responses on a 5 Senses Chart .Have them guess what the substance is. If they still do not know, give them this little clue: "Bzzz, bzz, bzzz!"
Video: "Magic Schoolbus In a Beehive
Share real honeycombs. Inform children that a honeycomb is made of individual cells and that each of these cells has six sides. A six-sided shape is a hexagon. (Get some Math concepts in too!) The workers bring nectar back to the hive and put it in theses hexagon cells. Other worker bees add substances from their bodies to turn the nectar into honey.
Make Harvest Crisp Honeycombs. Each child gets 7 Harvest Crips crackers and a plate. Squirt some honey onto each child's plate so the inner circle is sparsely covered. Have each child lay one of her crackers in the honey in the center of the plate. Do the rest with the other crackers - positioning them with one of their sides touching a side of the center cracker.
Bee Facts:
1. worker bees are female, drone bees are male
2. only female bees have stingers
3. several worker bees guard the entrance to the hive and wting when the hive is in danger
4. bees can see colors, but cannot see red
5. bees use their antennae to smell
6. a bee has a special stomach, called a honey stomach, that carries nectar
a bee can fly forward, backward, or sideways, and it can hover in the air
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Arts & Crafts:
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Film Canister Bees.
Press colored yellow masking tape (cut in thin strips) around the film canister to form stripes of the bee. On the bottom end of the canister, glue a black pom pom with hot glue. You can add wiggly or sequin eyes and glue on 2 antennae from pipe cleaners or accordion-folded paper. Add 2 yellow construction paper wings glued on the sides. You have a bee finger puppet.{Idea by Glenda Frasier, gfrasier@esu10.k12.ne.us}
Marbeled Bees.
To make a bee, cut a yellow construction paper bee body. Put the bee pattern into a small box. Dip 2 marbles into black paint and then drop them into the box. Children will roll the marbles back and forth in the box gently, covering the bee shape with black stripes. After the bee has dried (partially), glue a coffee filter section (1/4 of the filter, cut like pie) onto the bee for a wing. Bend a black pipe cleaner and tape it to the back of the bee's head for antennae. Add a black pom-pom nose and a wiggle eye. Cute! {Inez Hughes, TX}
Egg Carton Bees.
Give each child 3 egg carton sections. Have her paint the cups yellow and black to resemble a bee. When the paint is dry, help her poke pipe cleaners through the cups for the legs and antennae. Glue on wax-paper wings. (4) Display these bees around a paper towel roll beehive.[Becky Barker, Allen, TX]
Styrofoam Bees.
Spray paint styro balls yellow and cut in half. (large or med. for the body and small for the head.)Cutting them in half will allow them to lay flat against a bulletin board. To make the stripes, make masking tape stripes over the yellow and spray black. Remove the tape and you now have a striped bee! Use pipe cleaners for the stinger, antennae, and legs. Use a low temp glue gun to glue wiggly eyes or beads for eyes and a curbed pipe cleaner for the smile. Use construction paper for the wings. Outline the shape of the wing with glue and sprinkle with prisma glitter.
Bumblebee Headbands.
Copy the pattern on page 123 of Kindergarten Themes by Carson Dellosa. (CD-0829) Copy on yellow construction paper. Let the children cut out the shape and add black stripes. Punch four holes in the body where the small circles are. Thread black pipe cleaners through the holes to form wings. To complete the bumblebee headband, fit the pattern to a students' head and tie or tape the ends to each side to hold it in place.
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Snacks:
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Peanut Butter Bees.
Give each child a tablespoon of peanut butter play dough. (see math activities) Have her roll the dough into an oval shape to make a bee's body. Then have her insert an almond sliver wing into each side. Next direct the child to use black decorating gel to draw stripes on the bee. Finally, have her add two chow mein noodles for antennae.
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Just For Fun:
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Give each child a 12x18 piece of white paper and a black crayon. Stick a bumblebee sticker in one corner of the paper. Tell the children you are going to play a song call "The Flight of the Bumblebee" (Rimsky-Korsakov) and they are to move their crayon along the paper showing the flight of the bee.
Use yellow hexagon (pattern block cutouts) to make a beehive. Write books that the children have read on the cutouts. Title a bulletin board: "Bee A Reader." (idea by leesee54@aol.com)
Place a stuffed bee in the center of a parachute. Invite students to make the bee fly by shaking the parachute up and down. if desired, play "Flight of the Bumblebee" during the activity.
Play "Who Has the Honey?" Seat children in a circle and select one child to be a honeybee. Have her turn to face the outside of the circle and cover her eyes. While her eyes are covered, secretly give another child a small jar of honey to hide behind his back. Signal the bee to turn around by having the class chant the rhyme:
Busy bee, busy bee, where's your honey?
Someone took it and that's not funny!
Listen for the buzz, the buzz of a bee,
To help you find that sweet honey!
When the children have finished chanting, have everyone make a humming sound except the child with the honey. Direct him to make a quiet buzzing sound. Have children continue humming and buzzing until the bee finds her honey. The bee then chooses another child to take her place.
Replace the face on a bee cutout with a school photo of each child.
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