bee week

BEE WEEK
As we continue to study bugs we will focus on bees this week. We will add Bee Week to get us back on
schedule for the month of May. We will read The Bee at circle time. This story gives the children the
opportunity to guess what comes next. This is one of the pre-reading skills we have been working on.
To be able to guess what comes next the children need to be engaged in the story, able to stay focused
and to follow a story line.
Another pre-reading skill to learn rhymes – to hear the sounds of words. As children develop listening
skills they hear how some words sound the same and how some sound different. Children enjoy rhymes
and the humor that comes with some of these rhymes. They enjoy saying the rhyme over and over
again.
There are five early literacy practices: sing, play, talk, read,
https://www.clel.org/fiveearlyliteracypractices
As we sing songs, learn rhymes and read stories we are working on early literacy skills. They are building
their vocabulary as they learn the words in the songs and poems. Reading books during Circle Time and
at home encourages a love of reading and print awareness – seeing the written words that are spoken
to them as you read the story. As we re-read stories or do the song/rhyme/flannel story for yet another
time it is to encourage your child to hear the words/sounds and be able to re-tell the
story/thought/word sequence. They need to practice this skill. Repetition of the songs and stories is a
way they can practice this skill. Singing songs is also a way for the children to hear cadence, syllables
and tone as you sing. They can pick out the words that rhyme and are able to recite words back to you.
These songs and stories are the beginning introductions to the written word which is the start of the
development of their early reading skills.
Insects All Around
Ladybugs and butterflies
Buzzing bees up in the sky
Teeny tiny little ants
Crawling up and down the plants
Many insects can be found
In the sky and on the ground
FIVE BEES
Five little bees
Up in the trees
Busy, buzzing
bumblebees
First, they go to a flower
Then they go to the hive
Then they make some honey
What a busy family of five!!