Description
Inside the hive with Buzzy the Bee: one tiny egg in a wax cell becomes a larva, a pupa and a young worker bee in this honey bee life cycle unit for preschool, pre-K and kindergarten, ages 3 to 6. Bee worksheets include Parts of a Bee in two levels, Count the Bees in three levels and cut and paste sequencing.
Use it for a pollinators, garden or insect week in the classroom, homeschool or daycare, with a 5 day lesson plan, a wall poster that grows one stage a day and a Life Cycle Wheel craft. Leveled no prep worksheets save you prep time.
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This unit is part of the Life Cycles Mega Bundle, 12 science units for the whole year. Get the bundle and save big: CLICK HERE
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
► You will get 60+ pages, including: ⤵
▴ Preschool & Pre-K and kindergarten black and white worksheets: ⤵
→ Bee Life Cycle, cut and paste (4 stages)
→ Bee Life Cycle, cut and paste (3 stages)
→ Trace the Word
→ Trace the Words
→ Color and Label
→ What Comes Next?
→ Parts of a Bee
→ Parts of a Bee, simpler version
→ Count the Bees (3 levels)
→ Help the Bee
→ Small to Big
→ Draw the Life Cycle
→ My Bee, draw and write
▴ Teacher Guide with a 5 day lesson plan and assessment pages
▴ Buzzy the Bee, a read-aloud story in color
▴ Wall life cycle poster to build with the class
▴ Mini poster, flash cards and a chant with motions
▴ My Bee Life Cycle Book (emergent reader)
▴ Pattern coloring pages
▴ Life Cycle Wheel craft with a finished example and templates, plus a color teacher wheel to laminate
▴ Headband and certificate with a handprint bee
► Pages in US Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 paper, choose Fit to Page when printing.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
The story shows how the hive works together: the queen lays one egg in each wax cell, the egg hatches after about three days into a larva with no legs or wings, worker bees feed it again and again, the cell is capped with wax, and inside the pupa the eyes, legs and wings form before the young worker chews her way out.
A 3 stage cut and paste lets younger children join the same lesson with a smaller step.
Bold lines, large pictures and short directions make every page easy to read, including for children who use visual supports.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ Homeschool insect science
◆ Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms
◆ Daycare and childcare programs
◆ Science and learning centers
◆ Spring, summer, garden and pollinator theme weeks
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Sequencing the 4 stages of the bee life cycle
◆ Science vocabulary: hive, cell, queen, worker, nectar, pollen
◆ Labeling the parts of a bee at two levels
◆ Counting bees at three levels and matching numerals
◆ Predicting what comes next and ordering by size
◆ Cutting, gluing, tracing and coloring for fine motor strength
◆ Oral language through the chant and the Life Cycle Wheel
✥ SAVE BIG WITH THE MEGA BUNDLE
Teach a new life cycle every season with all 12 units in one download: pumpkin, apple, turkey, penguin, robin, plant, butterfly, frog, chicken, ladybug, bee and sea turtle. CLICK HERE to see everything inside the Life Cycles Mega Bundle and save big.
TERMS
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