Summertime Reading
About Honeybees
Learn about bees, their life cycle, their work, and how they help the many beautiful flowers in nature.Children can read about bees in the Early Science Readers. These booklets set the stage for learners to explore, think and find out about bees. Interactive booklets will engage young readers in decoding and encoding new words about an interesting topic. This teaching resource allows the teacher to integrate subjects, diversify instruction and bring interesting reading into their classroom.
Find bookmarks like the one to the left are designed to invite children to engage and begin this thematic unit on bees. Or you may wish to use them for an incentive award after completing all the tasks in this unit.
This teaching resource about honeybees includes three interactive reading booklets. "Amazing Bees" includes 2 versions [one easy reader and one with more text for those that can]. This allows the teacher to diversify instruction easily. Students are able to read, think, write and color to create their own unique booklet about bees. They will read and reread these booklets.
beekeepers and their very special work. Start with this teaching resource and set up a literacy corner about
"Busy Bees In Summertime"
It will lead to reading, writing, thinking, learning, exploring, math, science... and many craftivities about bees are easy to find.Children can make a fun flap book to show what they have learned about bees. It is easy for teacher to assemble. Children must match the text to the correct flap. Read, think, match, color and write.
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| All About Bees - Science Readers - Math |
Do You Like Honey? Do you know why there are different honey flavors?
Do you know all the jobs the worker bee does? Are you a worker bee?
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| Find Teaching Resource About BEES |
Create a Busy Bee Math Station which will provide practice with addition, number sentence writing, ten frames, tally marks and
number sense.
This unit study on Bees provides math activities, practice in literacy, science reading to learn knowledge about bees and beekeepers, writing to show what you have learned, word study, learning new vocabulary, learning about the life cycle of a bee. When students engage in the theme you can see transfer of knowledge from one area to another.
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Earn Busy Bee Badges!
This is an incentive to collect bee badges along the beeline of learning. Students will own a "My Busy Bee Badges" booklet and will be able to collect colorful, bright Busy Bee badges as they complete learning tasks.
