Early learning #nurseryrhymes #literacy #number #UTW #minibeasts |#EYFS #areasoflearning

#WORLD BEE DAY and beyond

THESE IDEAS CAN BE USED FOR WORLD BEE DAY OR CAN BE ADAPTED TO SUIT MINI BEAST TOPICS ACROSS THE YEAR

THE FOCUS HERE | Early learning | Knowledge and Understanding of the World | Mini beasts | In the Garden #outdoor learning

With a focus on hearing language in order to develop speaking and listening and then linking it to all areas of the #EYFS curriculum the focus is on knowledge and understanding of the world

Rhymes and their content
Can be used every day
To bring learning to life
In so many ways

WIZZY’S WORDS RHYME PRESENTED HERE | For World Bee Day and everyday learning (with accompanying resources)

R22 ‘Thanks!’ Say the Flowers! (Tune – Pop Goes the Weasel…)
Video and resources sheet

PLANNING IDEAS (Take outdoors if at all possible and link to the plants and flowers that the children can see)
COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE | Listen to the rhyme/Say the rhyme together/Make the sound effects/Say the words/Look out for phoneme sounds that the children know whilst focusing on the rhythm of the words and presenting appropriate new phoneme sounds/Discuss what bees do and why?
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT | Discuss who protects us and why bees need our protection too
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT | Practise being bees and buzzing and flapping around/ Link to outdoor literacy and number/Act out and count the number of bees buzzing around/ Bees ‘waggle dance’ to communicate to each other - pattern/sequence - can we make our own waggle dance?/
LITERACY | Rhyming - Can we hear/spot the words that sound the same?
MATHEMATICS | How many? Can we count along? Can we count on? Can we count the stripes on the bees? Can we make that pattern with paper? What else could we use?
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD | Link the rhyme to nature and everyday/yearly events| Discuss what bees do and why?
EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN | Create pictures of bees or of the bees’ stripes | Count the stripes |Make or add the numerals | Use Playdoh to make bees and their hive and discuss and make the bees some honey?

This rhyme is taken from:
Wizzy’s Words | 70 #earlylearning rhymes for today | 0 to 5+ | Published by Troubador

To find out more about the story of Wizzy’s Words and the research it is based on visit www.wizzyswords.co.uk and/or
https://wizzyswords.co.uk/blog/52/the-story-of-wizzys-words-book-of-rhymes-now-including-ael-freeresources/

Link for all Wizzy’s Words AEL #freeresources on Times Ed Resources https://www.tes.com/member/Jaxxie

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