K&UW

 Bee cycle – body parts

Brief of the bee
Overview Role play Book corner  The bees role in our
Investigation laboratory Bee hive world
Weekly question to and  Bee hive construction in
investigation to carry wildlife area and take
out. Visit / trips home task in
PSE Beekeeper/ bee constructing one.
Feeling about bees –
learning farm  Visit/trip????
experiences of bees. Gardener  What plants do they like
Newspaper – grow our own. What
Working together, community journalist colours are their
active
living, workers and the queen
bee. favourite?
learning  Pollination – what is it?
Who will be Queen today?  Bee problems/illness –
Why? What jobs will you set life without bees
the Workers to do?  What has honey in?
EOW – Vote who was the best
Buzz, buzz, buzz!  Cooking with honey
Queen and why? Write  Honey tasting
compliments on ‘Weekly bee  Saving the bee –
achievement sheet and campaign and
produce for ‘celebration educating others. What
assembly’. else can we do? Who
can we ask?
EOT -What makes a good
leader? What attributes should
Physical
you have?
Dance - Linked to Creative, working
towards performance of ‘Dance of the
Bumblebee’ exploring over the weeks
how bees move/ patterns in their
Creative journey. Class to work together each
Clay and Perspex bees, pompom bees, pen and ink watercolours, week building on what they have
bee associated patterns – honeycomb, stripes, flight, etc. 3D hive learnt.
construction large and small scale, designing campaign T-shirt and Games – working together/ teamwork
leaflet, textured bees, antenna hats/ beekeeper hats, wax resist Gym – carrying objects across
art., apparatus to team to build a hive
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Planner Continue with
‘measures’ theme with
WEEK 1 the ‘measure’ play
dough mats
I.C.T.
Use computers in Lab to
learning
research honey.
Where does honey come
from? Who makes it? How?
What does it look like? Taste?
active
Which learning
is best?
Sticking and Making Area
tops for honey jars. What
shape does it need to be? How
do we secure it?
Favourite honeys of the world
– make flag of your favourite.
Performance
Role play
Scientists! We can find
out by …
Numeracy Area
Measures.
Can you fill up the jars?
Can you half fill? Does
each full jar contain the
same the same amount
of liquid? How can we
find out? What do we
do? How can we record?
Data handling
Writing/ graphics Personal/social/emotional Book corner
area Continues to be motivated. Hive – come and read with
Labels for honey To be respect others the cuddly bees
jars. opinions. To be able to Role play – Class Lab
Honey tasting communicate likes and
favourites – write dislikes.
Investigation –
which was yours? Use Lab to research honey.
Can you find the flag Where does honey come from? Who
to match?
makes it? How? What does it look
like? Taste? Which is best? What do
the different honeys taste like? Why
do they taste different? Which
countries do they come from?
Where does honey come from
(bees)? What else comes from
bees?
What foods have honey in? What
Buzz, buzz, buzz can we make with honey? How will
we decide what to make as a class?
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Yummy Honey
Construction Area –
can you construct a
vehicle to carry the all
the honey at once?
How big? How strong?
Art/ painting table
Experiment with wax.
What happens when
you paint over wax?
Outdoor –
Food technology Music
Carrying buckets of
Children to vote on Flight of the Sand area & Water Area
honey over the
which recipe they bumblebee. How Honey coloured water – fill the
apparatus, how much
would like to cook does this music jars up- full, half full, empty
water can you carry
that contains make us feel?
without it slopping over?
honey. What could be
What’s the best level to
happening in it?
prevent spillage?
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Bee addition and
Planner
counting on play
WEEK 2&3 dough mats
I.C.T.
To use mouse appropriately by
learning
colour filling online Bee picture.
What was difficult? What get
happening when working on
piece?
active learning
Sticking and Making Area
Bee construction – How many
legs? Wing? Body sections?
What can we use to represent
parts? Bee sticks – can you
attach your bee to string and
stick? How? What did you
use? What worked best?
Performance /Role play
Scientists! We can find
out by … bees working to
make honey. Workers to
carry out chores for
Queen.
Numeracy Area
Counting and ordering
with formation practice
1:1 correspondence
Writing/ graphics
area Personal/social/emotional Book corner
Label the bee? how we feel about bees? Hive – come and read with
Where can you find How do bees work as a the cuddly bees
key words? community? Who will be Role play – Class Lab
Bee poems from Queen today? What jobs will
poem pot in area, the workers do? What makes
Investigation –
children to attempt to a great Queen Bee? How did
Use Lab to research Lab to
write similar you feel?
research about bees. What do
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How will we find out more about
bees? What do bees do for us?
Why are they so important?
Bee visit to SU – what did you see?
Buzz, buzz, buzz
Construction Area –
Bee Attack!!
Make a hive using the
3D equipment
Art/ painting table
How will we use pen and ink
watercolours to create pictures of
bees? How can we make a 3d bee
using clay and Perspex? Use yellow
and black coloured wool to cover the
card – what do you think it will be?
What textures can we use to make a
collaborative bee collage?
Food technology Outdoor – How do bees Music
Children to vote on move? Can we balance Flight of the
which recipe they and travel on the bumblebee. How do Sand area & Water Area
would like to cook apparatus like a bee bees move what is Help the bee travel across the river
that contains carrying pollen? their flight pattern safely, what can you make that float?
honey. Bee hunt – Where to look? like? Can we How can you make it go quicker?
Who can we ask? reproduce pattern in Find the the different bee and sort
dance? them – Workers, Drones, Queens
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Planner Writing/ graphics
Personal/social/emotional Book corner
WEEK 1&2 Place the pollen on the area
Caring for plants in our wildlife Hive – come and read with
flower dice and board Label the flower
pots with plant area. Growing our own flowers the cuddly bees
game using dough
names and their own from seeds. Role play – Class Lab
pieces
sunflowers. What do they need to stay
Sequence the healthy? What do we need to
I.C.T. growth of the stay healthy? Investigation –
Flower pictures on Dazzle sunflower. Use Lab to grow plants that bees like.
Labels for flower pictures ng Ask School gardener to instruct them on
what to do with the seeds
What colours do they like best?
How will we grow our own flowers?
What do they need to grow? How do
we care for flowers/plants? What are
the different parts of a flower? Can
Sticking and Making Area we sort the seeds? What are the best
Can you make a flower? What conditions for growing flowers? How
sections do you need? What Buzz, buzz, buzz will we grow our sunflowers?
do they look like? Can you
place them making good use
of the space?
Flower Power Construction Area –
Can you build a mini bee
garden? What has your
garden got in it?
Performance /Role play
Plant grow – link in with
Art/ painting table
Physcial. What position
Can you use chalks and pastels to
should we start with?
draw the flowers? What happens
Why? Do we move
when you smudge the pastels?
quickly? Why? How
What is Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting
should we move?
of? Can we focus on a small area of
a flower like her? What colours do
bee love?
Numeracy Area Outdoor –
Counting and Food technology Planting in our outdoor area Music
addition/subtraction Children to vote plants that attract bees. To Flight of the bumblebee.
into flowerpots – can on which recipe maintain ‘sensory garden’ How do bees move what
you place the right they would like to and to weed the area. is their flight pattern like? Sand area & Water Area
amount of bugs in the cook that contains Planting sunflowers and Continue to build on Containers with hole in –Which
plant pot? honey. caring for them. dance. Introduceflowers of the containers empties the
Visit park for bees and for on the hall floor quickest? Why? Which empties
flowers that attract bees. slowly?
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Make pupa, and bees
Planner
for hive, place inside –
WEEK 4&5 how many are in
there?
I.C.T.
Find out on the computer how
learning
we can help the bee. Is there
anything we can do?
active learning
Sticking and Making Area
Beekeepers hat – what design
does it need to be? Protection
– where, how?
Mini hives – can we join them
together to make a
collaborative hive?
Performance /Role play
Become a bee keeper.
Look after the Queen and
Drones. Control the
workers are they happy?
Well? What do you need to
do?
Numeracy Area
Patterns and 3D shape
– what patterns are
there in a hive? Bee?
Can we reproduce?
Writing/ graphics
area Personal/social/emotional Book corner
Key words that they Who will be Queen today? What Hive – come and read with
have learnt about jobs will the workers do? What the cuddly bees
from the start of makes a great Queen Bee? How Role play – Class Lab
topic. did you feel?
Make a bee cycle Vote the best each week and
Investigation –
book – the cycle write why on their special
Use Lab to research Lab to research
with the info. certificates
about bee keepers. What is a
Beeman/keeper? What is his job?
What special clothes does he wear?
ng Why? What other questions would
we like to ask the Beeman? What is
a bee hive? What does it look like?
How many bees live in a hive? Can
we build a hive using 3d construction
toys? Can we build a bee nest?
Should we be worried about bees?
Buzz, buzz, buzz Why? What can we do?
Construction Area –
The Bee Man (Bee Lady!) building hives small and
large hive using different
3D media what works
best? What was easy?
What was hard?
Art/ painting table
What is the shape found in bee
hives/honeycomb? Can we
print/stencil and keep it still as we
stencil?
Can we make a 6 sided pattern -
Can we copy and carry on a
pattern?
Food technology Music
Grandma’s honey Outdoor – Flight of the
muffins from The Bee keeper visitor to bumblebee. How do
Bee Man. What advise children on what bees move what is Sand area & Water Area
else could we they can do in their their flight pattern 3D junk building hives –
add? outdoor space to attract like? Continue to Patterns in the sand
bees. build on dance. Fill your honey jars here?
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Planner Clay bee paper weight
Writing/ graphics Personal/social/emotional Book corner
for selling on the stall.
WEEK 3,4&5 area To evaluate who was a Hive – come and read with
What do we want to good leader. To discuss the cuddly bees
say? What have we what makes a good Role play – Class Lab
learnt about? Which leader? What attributes are
info do we need to necessary? .
I.C.T. make people ngaware
Stall decoration - clip art - can of?
Investigation –
learning
we add clip art to compliment
What can we do to help save the
the stall? What should we
bee? Who can we tell? How are
enter when we search for a
we going to tell them? What
picture?
questions will we ask our visitor
active learning (newspaper) about being really
persuasive?
What will we include on our leaflet
to tell people why we should help
Sticking and Making Area the bees? Are there any charities
Making large scale sign for Buzz, buzz, buzz
that help bees? Could we raise
stall and table cloth design – some money? How?
can we work together on What do we need to include in our
choosing a design? What Save the Bee! letter to the local MP/newspaper?
should it look like?

Construction Area –
Performance
Role play Construct flower and
Reporter / campaigner - bee coasters to sell
what questions to ask? for the campaign.
What do we want t know? constructing frames
for their flower
prints.

Numeracy Area Art/ painting table

Problem solving – how Outdoor – T-shirt design and
Food technology Planning in the front Music
may T-shirts, leaflets, leaflet logo.
The most favourite outdoor area where we Flight of the
honey jars do we need? What should it say?
recipe to be made can have most impact bumblebee.
How can we find out? How will we decide on
and sold and for our bee awareness Complete dance
Record the growth of the main logo?
school campaign. campaign. and perform to the
sunflowers – who’s was
whole school.
the tallest? Shortest?