The girls had fun learning about bees today. They discovered that they love Honeycomb, and enjoyed creating the beehive. We got our recourses for today from the B is for Bee, Bus, Bear Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
Bee Science
- Then we watched the The Story of Honeybees from The Good and the Beautiful video.
- I read the letter B from the Abeka Animal Friends Flashcards to learn more about the bees. We watched Betsy Bee Song to go with the card.
- We learned more about bees by watching this Animals for Kids Bee video.
- She also did her Bee page from her Abeka Letters & Sounds for 3’s book.
- She also painted some bees on her Beehive poem from her Abeka Arts and Crafts with Button Bear book.
- We also read Bee Dance by Rick Chrustowski.
- We used the How to Make Honey poster to visualize how honey is made as they tasted some honey on a spoon.
- We got out our Melissa & Doug Farm Sequencing puzzle to review how to make a honey.
Bee Writing
- The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter B. My 3 year old had a capital B and lowercase b with tracing arrows, along with a bee to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing B’s and b’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the B is for Bee, Bus, Bear Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
B is for Bee Craft
- I printed this b is for Bee Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the lower case “b” for them to paint yellow. They let it dry and then add black paint stripes. After that dried they glued it to a piece of blue construction paper. Then I cut out the wings and antenna for them to glue on.
Honeycomb Beehive Craft
- We glued Honeycomb cereal to a piece of green construction paper to look like a beehive. Then we added these Bee Stickers around the hive.
Bee Shapes
- I printed out the Beehive Shape game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then she reviewed her shapes as she matched up the bees with the honeycomb.
Active Bee
- We found this Go Danny Rides a Bee for some active time today.
Pollen Playdough
- I printed out the Pollen Playdough game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. I showed the girls how to make small balls with yellow Play Doh. Then they put the appropriate number of playdough pollen balls on the matching hexagon.
Bee Emotions
- I printed out the Bee Emotions Matching game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. First we talked about different emotions and then she matched them up.
More Bee Videos
- The girls liked Caitie’s Classroom Buzzing Bees a lot.
- We also watched The Wild Kratts The Toughest Honey Bees.
- Last we watched The Magic School Bus In a Beehive.
Farm Field Trip
We got to see a farm bee hive on our farm field trip this week too. They were nervous about getting too close even though we only saw 1 bee.
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