Honeybees Unit, centers, research, crafts, printables, worksheets, preschool/1st

Honeybees Unit, centers, research, crafts, printables, worksheets, preschool/1st

This bundle of Honeybee activities is packed with so much fun! It is great for preschool through first grade! My favorite part of this pack are the activities that have real photographs! I also love the honeybee research and the life cycle activities. Prepare to WOW your students with so much new knowledge on the importance of this tiny creature- bees!

Here's what's included:

•Coloring pages/Binder Covers 3

•Book/song Ideas

•Mini Lesson Ideas: 6 ideas to get you started!

•Theme Board: Post these images on your theme/ focus board for the new theme. Don’t put on the title yet if you think it gives too much away. This is a GREAT way to introduce a new topic. Have students guess the new theme! Pick and choose your images.

•Center Numbers/Calendar Numbers

•Question of the Day: Post the question of the day on a pocket chart, bulletin board, or poster in the same place every morning for students to respond Yes or No. This is a great activity to kick off circle time! Tip: Laminate the yes/no on colored paper to last for other units!

•Progress Monitoring Page: I use this as a pre/post test for the unit. Skills focus on bee life cycle, beginning letter sound, which group has more, living/nonliving thing, and skip counting by 10s

•Writer’s Workshop: Picture card vocabulary words, post cards, writing pages, list it, describe the picture, Fact Collector Web

•Make it! STEM Center, suggestions and tips page, blank planning page, 4 themed task cards

•Label the bee cut and paste

•Number sequence puzzles (3) counting by 10s & 1-10

•1-20 playdough counting honeycomb mats: Use white play-dough to help the queen bee lay the correct number of eggs!

•Worker bee activity: Students learn the jobs of a worker bee by acting it out! They choose a boy or girl bee (technically all worker bees are female so you can approach that how you would like), and they decorate the bee and attach to a popsicle stick, real stick, or pencil. Students can also color the play mat. They use the worker bee checklist to act out the many jobs of the worker bee using their puppet and the mat.

•Brag Bracelet and student recording sheet. Keep track of who has gotten brag bracelets. This is especially helpful if you use my other theme packs! All of my themes have a brag bracelet.

•Beginning letters sound: Students can stamp, write or use magnet letters to identify the beginning sound.

•How high do the bees fly? (2 versions) Students can use snap cubes, counters, rulers, or honeycomb cereal to measure and record the number.

•Bee addition (2 pages) adding within 5 and adding within 10

•Bee addition mat: use the mat with Honeycomb cereal or counters to support addition cut and paste pages.

•Trace the bee to the flower 4 line variations

•Trace the hexagons

•Handwriting practice (3 pages) 1-20, a-z, and A-Z

•Bee headband: Print on yellow or students can decorate and staple, tape or glue to a strip of construction paper to complete the band

•Honey bee Facts: this is a header for a bulletin board

•We can bee sweet as Honey: This is a header for a bulletin board

•Hexagon with name: This can serve 2 purposes, one is for students to write/draw ways to be kind to match the header page “We can be sweet as Honey,” the other is to go with the “Honeybee Facts” header and students can write/draw a cool fact they learned about honeybees. Put on the hexagons together to create a honeycomb of kindness or facts!

•Honeybee facts: Students write facts from books or from their teacher that they learn in the hexagons of the honeycomb.

•All About Honeybees Research book template, poster, and information pages. Students gather facts from the research pages provided to create their very own All About Honeybees book. They can work in groups, as a class, or each create their own. This is a great way to teach parts of a nonfiction book as it includes a cover page, table of contents, and place to put photographs, drawings, or diagrams.

•Living or nonliving Center with real photographs: students sort living/nonliving pictures.

•Living or Nonliving cut and paste activity pages (2)

•All About Honeybees mini nonfiction reader with comprehension questions: This is also included in my Bugs themed unit

•Honeybee sentence scramble pages (3), students cut and paste the sentence in order, write, and draw a picture to match.

•Color by shape (2)

•Number order cut and paste, 1-10

•Amazing Honeybees emergent reader in black and white

•Save the bees! Plant some Seeds! This activity is a recording sheet for students to grow a flower native to their area to attract and help bees. Check online to find what are native flowers to grow in your area! Where I am, sunflowers are fun and easy to grow and bees love them!

•Bee Poetry Comprehension: A short haiku is provided. Real aloud, students circle the rhyming words, color a picture that shows what the poem is about, and answers a questions about the poem. Really challenge your students and clap out the syllables! A traditional haiku should have the 5, 7, 5 pattern!

•Count and color (2) 1-5 and 6-10

•Rhyming bees puzzle center: students match the rhyming words and write them

•Beginning letter sound center: students match the bee letter to the flower picture. There is a recording sheet included

•Honeybee life cycle hive craft: This is formatted like a traditional flip book, but students have the challenge to match the picture to the correct stage. Layer the pages on top of one another from big to small and staple at the top.

•Honeybee life cycle picture cards: these are for an anchor chart, center or for teaching the honeybees life cycle. I like to mix them up after I teach and have a student help me put them in order several times!

•Honeybee sequencing cut and paste (2 versions)

•Write the room with real photographs of beekeeping supplies

•Estimate the honeycomb: fill a jar with honeycomb and challenge your students to make an estimation! You can also have students see how many they can fit in the jar worksheet page by laying them on top of the jar.

•5 senses recording page for honeycomb cereal or honey

•Greater than, Less than Center with bees on hives and symbols

•Which group has more worksheets (2) Have students draw the symbols and/or color the hive that has more bees

•Skip counting and pollinating center, 10-100, Cut out the bee and put it on a stick, ruler, or pencil and students put the flowers in order. They use their bee puppet to skip count by 10s, and along the way pretend to pollinate the flowers.

•Skip counting by 10s worksheet (2)

•H is for Honey: Students cover the H with honeycomb cereal or color it gold like honey.

•B is for Bee: students cover the B with honeybee stickers or draw them in the bee.

•Aa-Zz & 1-10 Tracing cards: These can be used for a lot of different tasks. You can print double and have students play memory, you can laminate and have students trace with dry erase markers, but I often use them to draw out of a pile and trace them in a sensory bin. Black and yellow rice would make a fun sensory bin for honeybees! Mix in some honeycomb cereal, yellow and black pom poms, and you have a great start!

•1-20 counting clip cards center

•I can draw a bee worksheet: this is also included in my Bugs unit

•Bee and honeycomb paper folding puppets: students can decorate these and use them as a dramatic play center, or to retell the sequence of a honeybee life cycle, or act out typical jobs of honeybees, or just play of course!

Thank you for visiting my shop and I hope you and your students enjoy learning about honeybees! Happy teaching with the littles in your life.

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Best,

Kayla @ Busy Teaching Mom