World Bee Day will be celebrated next week on 20 May. The purpose of World Bee Day is to celebrate these wonderful pollinators upon whom we are so dependent, and not just for their delicious honey. Without bees, there’d be a lot less, and many fewer varieties of, food for us to eat.
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The World Bee Day website contains useful advice and many resources to assist your involvement in the day, including a fun waggle dance challenge you and your children will enjoy.
There are also suggestions for what you can do as a school, community group or individual to contribute to the survival of these amazing creatures.
Here at readilearn, the bee theme is a favourite and we have many bee-themed resources to support your teaching, including:
Science
Honey bees — an information ebook
English
Honey bees interactive for teaching features of information texts
Maths
Bees Bees and Insect Subitising — 1 – 6
Collect 100 flowers for Busy Bee — a counting game
Busy Bee Number lines and dice
Classroom Management
Busy Bee Welcome resources for Day one — a collection of ten resources for establishing a bee-themed classroom
Busy Bee of the week award certificate
Character Development
Busy Bees alphabet of positive adjectives
These are just a few of readilearn’s bee-themed resources. Type ‘bee’ in the website search bar to find more. In addition, there are many minibeast-themed resources, some of which include information about bees, that can be located by typing ‘minibeast’ into the search bar.
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I have an allergy to the bacteria bees carry so when I get stung, I get blood poisoning. That aside, I am still fond of bees and try never to kill them.
Oh dear, Robbie. You must stay away from bees.
I might have to join in with that Waggle Dance. Of course, it won’t be filmed… 🙂
Mine won’t be either! 🙂
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Awesome, Norah! <3 Sharing…
Thank you, Bette.