This book is a non-fiction book loaded with science content on honey bees. The illustrations grab your attention because they look as if a child has colored them. Each page has pictures that relate to the topic being discussed.
Honey bees travel to and from their hive. They form colonies of over fifty-thousand bees and they all have specific jobs. They like to make their homes in cold, dark places. A hole in a tree is a great place to make these homes. Sometimes a bee keeper has a wooden box that is made like a hive to keep bees in. In these hives lives one queen, one hundred males and thousands of female workers. The ladies do all of the work! The bee has three body parts. The parts are the head, the thorax and the abdomen. The queen is the largest of all of the honey bees and she will live the longest. All of the other bees will live about two months. There are cells in the hive where they bees will store honey. In some of these cells the queen will store her eggs since she will lay up to two-thousand eggs a day. The book goes on to tell each individual job of the bees in detail. It also says that bees get sweet nectar from flowers. They also collect pollen and carry it from flower to flower. This process is called pollination. This book is packed with useful information!
Having this book in your classroom has many benefits especially if you live in a farming region. Around south Georgia where I am from, many classes visit farms and strawberry patches. At these places there are always bee keepers and the students get to visit the bees. These experiences make this book relevant for the children. It is always fun to taste the honey that the bees have made. It has also been said that if you struggle with seasonal allergies, having a taste of honey from bees local to your environment will help cure this! This is a fun insect to study during the spring when you can see them in action!
Wow this book seems to a great book that has so much information on bees that we may all never know! I love how you described how the book goes into detail on how the bees make honey and how each bee has a specific job in the hive. This book would be great to show children that bees aren't just insects that will sting you, but they provide us with honey. So many times we focus on the negatives of these insects that we miss the benefits of them! I would definitely like to incorporate this book into my classroom library! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this book with us. I plan to use such books in my future classes to help teach the kids about the benefits of all living creatures. You are correct, bees are very misunderstood little creatures. If not for them, our crops would not grow because they could not get pollenated. Thanks again and excellent book choice.
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