Bee Theme

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Themes


Photos
Bee on Flower (close up)

Bee Books
Search for Bee Books at Amazon.com
         
    

The Facinating World of Bees

My Pages
The Flight of the Bumble Bee Music
Birds, Bees, and Butterflies (Lesson that includes crafts, coloring pages, songs, riddles & games, and hand shadows

Bee Cooking & Snacks
Beehive Treats
Make my Ring Marshmallow Balls (using oats cold cereal (or fruit if you want a colorful beehive) and add some raisins or chocolate chips).  Place a large piece of plastic wrap over the cups of a cardboard egg carton.  Place the mixture onto the plastic wrap.  Let cool.  Eat.

Preschooleducation.com - Bug Snacks (Click on "Snacks", "Bugs", and then "Honey Cookies".)

Bee Music
Buzzy Bee @ KIDiddles
Phonics: bee, tree, see: "ee" and me: "e"

Download NOW -- The Flight of the Bumble-Bee Sheet Music, Midi, & MP3 Digital Files

Listen to various instruments midi's located at:
The Flight of the Bumble Bee Download at Virtual Sheet Music

You can find different midi's of this at:
Karadar.com: Classical Music: Rimsky-Korsakov - Bumblebee Flight
Virtual Sheet Music - The Flight of the Bumble-bee.

Have the children walk around and pretend they are flying like bumble bees. You can have then hold a picture of a bumble bee they have colored or they can put their arms out as if they were wings.

Hand Butterfly or Hand Butterfly Shadow
Have the children make a butterfly by placing their thumbs together and move their other fingers like the wings of a butterfly.  Have them make their shadows between a lamp and a light colored wall or door.

Note:  Younger children may not understand how to do it so let them do it however they like.  It may not  look like a butterfly to you but it is to them.

Riddles, Games, and Fingerplays
You can use some of the riddles with older children for the introduction of this lesson. The fingerplays and game can be used for younger children.  This are some I have read in different places.

Go to 13: I Am Thankful for Birds and Insects to find riddles the children can guess what animal it is (bird, bee, butterfly) a Butterfly game, fingerplays titled "Two Little Tweety Birds" and "Beehive".

Games
Bee Game Board @ KinderPrintables

Bee & Honey Printables, Facts, and More
abcteach Bee Pattern
abcteach Search Results for "Bee"
Africanized Honey Bee Lesson Plans Grades K - 12, Information Sheets, Activity Sheets, and more
All about Honey! Includes facts about honeybees and honey, history of honey, recipes, and honey fun (coloring pages, coloring pages, bee games, honeybee cam, and more). New 6/5/09
Bumble Bee: Bee A Kid (Coloring Page) or Bumble Bee Home Page (if the other link has changed and click on "Consumer")
Bumblebee Coloring Sheet
Buzzing Facts About Bees (an Internet Treasure Hunt on Bees)
Dltk-kids.com: Bumble Bee Craft
Honey.com Click on "Consumer Includes recipes, honey information, honey trivia, teacher's guide and video, and much more.
Sears Portrait: More Family Fun: Bees
Teacher Worksheets: Bees Coloring Page
The BeeHive Website

Bee Rhymes
Enchanted Learning - Bees Rhyme
Enchanted Learning - Fiddle dee dee and Printout to Color

Online Activities
Honeybee Word Search @ Weekly Reader


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