"Here is the Beehive" rhyme
"Here is the Beehive" rhyme
Singing and saying the "Where is the beehive?" rhyme
Materials Required
- A clear and comfortable place to sit and enjoy the rhyme with your child.
Bees stuck to a glove or finger puppets.
Play experience profile
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Ages:
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Min Playtime5 - 15 Minutes
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Skills
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Energy LevelTransition
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Messiness Rating
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EYLF Outcomes
Play Experience Preparation
Prepare a space to enjoy this rhyme with your child. Share the rhyme using below link.Experience Steps
- Sit down beside child or sit your child on your lap.
- Sing/say the beehive rhyme or watch together using below link.
- Use simple hand actions to carry out the rhyme.
- Close hand for the bees in the bee hive. Say or sing the rhyme: 'Here is the beehive, where are the bees? Hiding away so nobody sees. Watch them come flying out of the hive. One, two, three, four, five. Buzzzzzzzzz!
- When the bees fly out of the hive tickle your child and let the "bees" (your fingers) fly as they buzz around near you.
- Have fun and repeat as much as you like!
What to talk about, or questions to ask during the experience
- Onomatopoeia: buzz
- High, low (e.g. when the bees fly high raise your fingers up high and sing in a high pitch voice)
- Speed: fast and slow
- Where do bees live? What do they eat?
- Talk about bees and research all about them with your child.
Build on this...
- Invite your child to make their own bee puppets.
- Research bees and the process of making honey.
- Look for bees in nature whilst on a walk.
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This is a quiet activity but could become more physically active by 'flying' around the house like a bee and involving your whole body in acting out the rhyme.
EYLF Outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators.
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The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators. View PDF
- Children feel safe, secure, and supported
- Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
EYLF Principle
Principle 3: High expectations and equity. Children progress well when they, their parents and educators hold high expectations for their achievement in learning.
EYLF Practice
Practice: Intentional teaching. Intentional teaching is deliberate, purposeful and thoughtful. They use strategies such as modelling and demonstrating, open questioning, speculating, explaining, engaging in shared thinking and problem solving to extend children’s thinking and learning.
https://supersimple.com/how-to-teach-super-simple-songs/how-to-teach-here-is-the-beehive/
https://www.nurseryrhymes.org/here-is-the-beehive.html
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