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Children will understand how bees make honey.

Vocabulary: nectar, liquid, factory, beekeepers

Science Focus: insects

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• This book pairs gorgeous illustrations with really fun rhymes. Plus, the exciting story helps kids understand how honey is made!  

•  Kids can practice vocabulary, reading, and spelling with this fun skill sheet!

• Use pages 2-3 of the issue to do this scavenger hunt as a group.

1. Find the heading. Underline it.
2. Find the picture where the bee is drinking nectar. Put a ✔on it.
3. In the yellow box, find the word that means "people who keep bees." Circle it.
4. Look at the orange box. Point to the label.

Skill: fine-motor, science

Materials: jar, water, food coloring, turkey baster or eye-dropper, ice cube tray

• Bees suck up nectar from flowers and bring it back to the hive to make honey. Have kids pretend to be worker bees with this fine-motor activity!
• Put water in a jar and add yellow food coloring. This is the “nectar.” Place an ice cube tray a short distance from the jar. The tray’s sections will be the cells in the “hive.”
• Have kids suck up the nectar with the baster, carry it back to the hive, and deposit it in one of the cells. As kids improve, you can increase the distance between the nectar and the hive.
• As kids work, they can sing this song to the tune of “London Bridge”:

I’m a busy little bee,

Little bee, little bee,

I’m a busy little bee,

I make honey!