honey bee mini books

Book SuggestionsChristian Liberty Nature Reader Book 2 - Chapter Three ~ All About Bees The Bee, Friend of the Flowers by Paul Starosta The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons Bees!. the usuall

Honey Bee Mini-Books

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This book may only be used by purchaser for use in

their own family or signal classroom You may store

a copy on a disc for your own personal use Not for

use by an entire school or co-operation

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Book Suggestions

Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 2 - Chapter Three ~ All About Bees

The Bee, Friend of the Flowers by Paul Starosta

The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons

Bees! by Editors of TIME for Kids with Elizabeth Winchester

Amazing Bugs by Miranda MacQuitty

Use the pictures throughout this book to decorate your notebook

or lapbook.

The cover page of this book could

be cut out to use as your notebook or lapbook cover.

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• Print pocket and cards on card stock

• Fold large flap back, then glue small flaps down

• Definitions available below to glue on cards

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Dawn Adams (order #256204) 24.89.250.87

the usually aboveground nest

of bees

a bitter yellowish brown pollen mixture stored in honeycomb cells and used with honey by bees for food

a population of plants or animals

in a particular place that belong to one

species

a sweet liquid given off

by plants and especially

by the flowers and used

by bees in making

honey

A substance rich in vitamins and proteins that is secreted from glands in the head of honeybees and is fed to all very young larvae and to all maturing queen bees

a great number of honeybees leaving together from a hive with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere;

also ; a colony of bees settled in a hive

honey-a thick sughoney-ary mhoney-aterihoney-al prepared by bees from the nectar of flowers and stored by them in

a honeycomb for food

a mass of six-sided wax cells built by honeybees

in their nest to contain young bees and stores

of honey

a small compartment, cavity, or bounded

space

A mass of tiny particles

In the anthers of a flower that fertilize the seeds and usually appear as fine yellow dust

Life Cycle

of a Bee

Cut outThis portion

• Copy onto card stock

• Cut outer edges and on dotted lines

• Cut out the different stages of a bee and add one to each section

Egg

Pupa

Larva

Adult

Work Bank

Antennae HindwingPollen Basket Abdomen

Bee Anatomy

How many queens live

in one hive?

What is the queen’s Main job?

How many eggs could a queen lay each day?

How long does a queen live?

• Cut around outer edges and

on dotted lines

• Fold flaps in towards title

• Cut out questions and add

to the front of flaps

• Write answers inside flaps

• Cut around outer edges and on dotted lines.

• Fold in thirds

• Cut around outer edges.

• Add jobs and other

interesting facts of the worker bee

• Inserts available at the end of

this activity

• Secure with a braid

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Cleans, Repairs, and Defends the Hive Builds the Comb

Makes the Honey, Beebread and Royal Jelly

Collects Nectar and Pollen

Keeps the Hive Cool Guards the Entrance

Live about 4 Months in Winter Live about 6 Weeks in Summer About 50,000 Worker Bees in One Hive Tends and feeds the Queen and Brood

Clipart that can be added to your fan book

or your lapbook

• Cut around outer edges and fold in half.

• Lined portions are optional inserts

• Cut around outer edge Fold in thirds and fold cover down

• Cut around outer edges.

• Fold in half

• Inserts available on following pages

• Decide what the waddle dance is

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Insects Spiders Reptiles &

Amphibians Birds Mammal;s

Cut around edges and dotted lines

Fold title just below the bottom of bear

Fold flaps to down

Cut out labels and glue to top of flaps

Write the types of predators from each

category

• Copy cover onto card stock.

• Cut around outer edges

• Stack and staple along along top

• Additional pages are on the pages that follow

Coloring Page

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• Print on yellow standard weight paper.

• Cut around outer edges

• Write facts about bees in cells

• Use this mini-book to create a short report on honey bees Use this cover or the cover on the next page.

The one on the next page you can decorate yourself

• Additional pages follow

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Dawn Adams (order #256204) 24.89.250.87

Dawn Adams (order #256204) 24.89.250.87

• Create a catalog of the books, dvd’s, websites and other resources you used while studying

honey bees This will be a valuable resource you can share with others who would like

to learn about honeybees

• Stack and secure with a braid

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