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The Bumbles of Honeywood Resources

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‘I am brave’ Poem template

Use the letters in the word brave to inspire the children to write their own acrostic poem.

5&6

Activity

Hornet Scramble

‘I have courage’ Poem template

Use the letters in the word courage to inspire the children to write their own acrostic poem.

5&6

Activity

Hornet Scramble

Act it out

Children to express themselves creatively in teams partiscipating in drama activities/games.

7&9

Lesson Plan

Festival of Fun

Act it out

Use this presentation to explain the drama games in the Act it Out lesson plan.

7&9

Presentation

Festival of Fun

Act it out Cards

Use the senses cards to play the drama games stated on the Act it out lesson plan.

7&9

Activity

Festival of Fun

Activity Pack

Children to be creative and devise an activity pack for the bees, to help them pass the time in a fun way.

7&9

Lesson Plan

Betsy and Bertie Save the Bees

Advertising – Keeping Fit and Healthy – Presentation

Use the presentation to show examples of advertising for fitness classes. Discuss in groups what each of the posters had in common and what they liked. Make a list of the things they will need to remember when doing their own advertising posters.

5&6

Presentation

Bumble Buzz

Advertising – Lesson Plan

Challenge the children to advertise Betsy's and Blue's fitness class. They will need to create a leaflet or poster in order to spread the word far and wide.

5&6

Lesson Plan

Bumble Buzz

An inventive child

Look around at your home and your recycling items that you were going to throw away. Collect them and clean them, and think about what you can invent. Use the materials to create your prototype for a new invention.

5&6

Free Activity

An Inventive Child

An unexpected eruption

Watch the video of a science experiment. Follow the method and create your own science experiment at home. Research and learn about why the lemonade bottle exploded and what reaction happened.

5&6

Free Activity

An Unexpected Eruption

Application Form

Children to look at the world of work and recognise their own skills and set appropriate goals using an application form.

7&9

Lesson Plan

Bertie Bumble's Exciting New Job

Are you up for a Challenge

Use this presentaion to set the challenge and criteria for the children to create an activity pack for the bees while in isolation.

7&9

Presentation

Betsy and Bertie Save the Bees

Back-to-Back Drawing – Activity

Children to choose a picture and describe it in order for a partner to attempt to draw their description as accurately as possible while sitting back to back.

5&6

Activity

The Bumbles of Honeywood

Back-to-Back Drawing – Lesson Plan

Use the picture cards to describe the image to a partner.

5&6

Lesson Plan

The Bumbles of Honeywood

Become a film reviewer

Decide on a film to watch with the whole family, ask the children to complete the template and review the film you decide to watch. Ask them to explain the story line, who was their favourite character and what their favourite part was.

5&6

Free Activity

Become a Film Reviewer

Bee Bot Activity – Lesson Plan

Children to place a soft toy on a square on the Bee Bot mat and give instructions for a partner to direct Beebot to reach the toy.

5&6

Lesson Plan

The Bumbles of Honeywood

Bee Bot challenge

Use our Bee Bot mat to take your bee bots on their very own adventure through Honeywood. Download the challenge cards and challenge your class to code their Bee Bot around the mat.

5&6

Lesson Plan

Bella Bumble's Waggle Dance

Bee Bot Challenge – Bee Bot Challenge Cards – Activity 1

Download our challenge cards. The cards have various different levels so use as many as you want to challenge your class to move around the Honeywood bee bot mat.

5&6

Activity

Bella Bumble's Waggle Dance

Bee Bot Challenge – Bee Bot Mat – Activity 2

Download the Bee Bot mat to print and download so you can have Honeywood come to life in your classroom. Use this with your Bee Bot challenge cards to move around Honeywood.

5&6

Activity

Bella Bumble's Waggle Dance

Bee Bot Challenge – Bee Bot’s Journey – Activity 3

Draw your own Bee Bot grid on the worksheet provided and take your Bee Bot on its very own adventure.

5&6

Activity

Bella Bumble's Waggle Dance

Bee Bot Challenge – Lesson Plan

Use our Bee Bot mat to take your bee bots on their very own adventure through Honeywood. Download the challenge cards and challenge your class to code their Bee Bot around the mat.

5&6

Lesson Plan

Bella Bumble's Waggle Dance

Bee Bot challenge cards

Download our challenge cards. The cards have various different levels so use as many as you want to challenge your class to move around the Honeywood bee bot mat.

5&6

Activity

Bella Bumble's Waggle Dance

Bee Bot journey worksheet

Draw your own Bee Bot grid on the worksheet provided and take your Bee Bot on its very own adventure.

5&6

Activity

Bella Bumble's Waggle Dance

Bee Bot mat

Download the Bee Bot mat to print and download so you can have honeywood come to life in your classroom. Use this with your Bee Bot challenge cards to move around Honeywood.

5&6

Activity

Bella Bumble's waggle Dance

Bee exercising

Children to recall the key events in the book 'Bumble Buzz'. Betsy and Blue organised a daily Bumble Buzz Fitness Class for all the bees in the hive to help them stay fit and healthy. Discuss with the children what keeping fit means.

5&6

Lesson Plan

Bumble Buzz

Bee fact file

Encourage the children to learn about bees. Use their digital skills to conduct some online research about honeybees, what they do and fill in the fact file with their findings.

5&6

Lesson Plan

Hornet Scramble

Bee fact file (HA)

Use the template to fill in the Honeybee fact file. Research different topics for each of the boxes.

5&6

Activity

Hornet Scramble

Bee fact file (LA)

Use the template to fill in the Honeybee fact file. Encourage the children to add the facts they learn into the honeycombs surrounding the bee. They can draw a picture rather than write if they wish.

5&6

Activity

Hornet Scramble

Bee Healthy – Bee Healthy – Presentation

Use the presentation to think about what it means to be healthy. Learn about exercise and a balanced diet and how important these are to live a happy and healthy life.

5&6

Presentation

Bumble Buzz

Bee Healthy – Exercise Record – Activity 1

Complete the exercise record, make a prediction of how many of each exercise you can do in 3 minutes. Calculate the total they completed and the difference between their prediction and total.

5&6

Activity

Bumble Buzz

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