2nd December 98

Mandy’s Reading ClassMandy’s Reading Class

Who are the characters in the

story?

Arnold

Keesha

Ms. Frizzle

Liz

Carlos Dorothy Ann

Phoebe Ralphie Tim

Wanda

Lesson One1. What did Ms. Frizzle want to do?

2. What had the class been studying?

3. What are ‘social’ insects?

4. Why do bees sting people?

5. Why did the bus shrink?

p6 - p11

Vocabularyob.serve (v) –

an.tenn.ae (n) –

hive (n) –

sur.vive (v) –

so.cial (adj) –

pro.tect (v) –

re.fresh.ments (n) –

To see what happens

To keep safe; guard

A bee’s home

To be able to live somewhere

Talking with other bees;many friends

Snacks or drinks

Help the bee talk to other bees and find food

p6 - p11

All about BeesAll about Bees

antennae

stinger (with barbs)

wings

tongue

Quick Quiz!How do you know that bees are insects?

Because they only have six legs!

1. How do bees “talk” to each other?

2. How will they go inside the hive?

3. Why do we call bees “busy bees”?

4. What do bees take from flowers?

5. Why do both flowers and humans need bees?

6. How do they get inside the hive?

Lesson Two

p12 – p18

Vocabulary (i)guard (v) –

col.lect (v) –

ga.ther (v) –

nec.tar (n) –

pol.len (n) –

pol.lin.ate (v) –

en.trance (n) –

To protect someone. (ex. A guard dog.)

Where you go inside somewhere

To collect from one place

A drink made by flowers

Used by flowers to make seeds.To make a seed in another flower

To get a lot of something

p12 – p18

Vocabulary (ii)grain (n) –

ex.tra (n) –

ton.gue (n) –

crop (n) –

pher.o.mones (n) –

One piece of pollen

Fruits and vegetables we eat

A kind of smell (ex. like a perfume)

More of something

Inside your mouth

p12 – p18

All about flowers

nectar

seed

petalspollen

What Crops do you know?

When a bee leaves pollen on one flower it makes a new seed. This seed then grows into fruit and vegetables that we eat every day! Fruit and vegetables are called crops.

Quick Quiz!How many seeds are in an apple?

Usually between 5 and 10.

1. Why do bees dance?

2. What did the bee on p22 tell the other bees?

3. What was the inside of the hive made from? What is it called?

4. Where does beeswax come from?

5. Did the children make good cells? Why?

Lesson Three

p19 – p25

Vocabularydrone (n) –

ex.plore (v) –

lang.uage (n) –

wag.gle (v) –

wax (n) –

hex.a.gon (n)

comb (n) –

A boy (male) bee who only makes baby bees.

Made from hexagon ‘cells’ inside the hive

How you ‘talk’ to someone

Move your body left and rightMade by bees and used by us.(ex. candles, hives)

To learn about new things by going somewhere

p19 – p25

Bees! Bees! Bees!Bees! Bees! Bees!In this lesson you will learn about different kinds of bees. Which bees do you know?

Queen Bee – there is only one

in every hive

Drone Bee – a boy bee who helps the queen make larvae.

Guard Bee – help protect the beehive.

Worker Bee – girl bees that get pollen for the hive

and look after larvae.

1. How do the bees change nectar into honey?

2. Why didn’t the children eat all the honey?

3. In each cell the queen lay an ___?

4. Why do workers touch the queen?

5. How do nurse bees make new queen bees?

Lesson Four

p26 – p31

Vocabularycell (n) –

add (v) –

s.pread (v) –

plen.ty (aux) –

cozy (adj) –

tend (v) –

molt (v) -

To put inside

A lot of

Comfortable, warm

To look after

To move things to many places

p26 – p31

animals that lose their hair(ex. My dog molts in summer.)

Part of a bee comb (hexagon)

1. How does a larva become a bee?

2. Why did the queen leave?

3. What do we call a place where many insects live?

4. What did the bear want to eat?

5. How will the children save the hive?

Lesson Five

p32 – p37

Vocabulary (i)co.coon (n) –

silk (n) –

meta.morph.o.sis (v) –

pu.pae (n) –

e.mer.ging (v) –

swarm (n) –

Very strong, thin rope made by insects.

When an insect changes its’size and shape.

Thousands of insects

larvae that are changing into adults

p32 – p37

To come out

A covering made from silk that protects a larvae as it changes.

Vocabulary (ii)col.o.ny (n) –

nuptial (adj) –

wedding

p32 – p37

A place where many insects live(ex. An ant colony, a bee colony)

How do larvae become bees?

The Queen bee lays an egg in a wax cell.

The eggs become larvae which are fed by special

nurse bees.

When the larva becomes big, it makes a cocoon and turns into a pupa.

After a long time the pupae become new bees!

From egg to bee

1. What did the bear stop to eat?

2. How does a beekeeper stop being stung.

3. What does the bus turn into?

4. What did the children eat at the end?

Lesson Six

p38 – p45

Vocabularystrategy (n) –

defeat (v) –

dashboard (v) –

instant (v) –

stripes (adj) –

To beat, be the winner

A very short time

Lines, a pattern. (ex. A zebra has many stripes.)

To move things to many places

p38 – p45

A plan, how to do something

Now finish the KWL chart you started when you

began the story!