Bee book

Will you bee reading tonight?

I'm just taking a few minutes to post a few new pages from "The Bee Book" Journal. They are in no particular order, but I just wanted to...

The Wild Bee Handbook is a practical, illustrated guide that will introduce you to the common wild bees you might find in your garden. Through a handy directory, learn how vital wild bees are to the ecosystem and discover how we can garden to offer them the food and habitat they need. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in biodiversity and sustainable gardening, featuring sections on container gardening, the no-dig method, how to maintain soil health, the principles for…

Buzzz into some reading fun with these childrens books about bees! They're perfect for a science unit study on bees or for just for fun reading!

For a full list of resources, scroll to the middle of this blog post. This video showcases the materials we used the second time we did a unit study on bees in 2019. This is how we put together thi…

The Last Honey Bee is a children’s picture book from Wayne Gerard Trotman’s Rhyming Stories series. Manderlee is a very sad honey bee. Humans destroyed the thriving bee colony she lived in with fire and poison. The queen bee, drones, and worker bees perished, but Manderlee survived. She had to travel far to seek a new colony and was almost made into honey bee cake by Kala Kaghee, an angry seagull. As she searches for a new hive to live in, Manderlee explains the importance of bees and why…

It's time for another mini-book! I was reading Erzsi Culshaw's blog recently and it reminded me of hexagon books. As I've mentioned recently, my Year 5 Spaniards are learning how to tell the time in Spanish at the moment. I usually finish this unit with a lift-the-flap book, but the cutting and folding always seems to go wrong (not mine, I hasten to add). So I thought I'd give the hexagons a try to see if the children find the making any easier. The idea is that you unfold one hexagon at a…

The Bee Book is out now! Everything you need to know about bees, why we need them, and how to help them, including making a bee-friendly garden

We put together a list of some of our favorite children's books about bees. It also includes a BONUS section full of hands-on, child approved, ...

You will love this list of bee books for children and yes, all of them have been recommended by parents and educators.