Making Honey by Rosalind Hayhoe

Red Rocket Readers

Making Honey

Bad dreams written by Rosalind Hayhoe

"Do you know how bees make honey? Bees make honey to eat in the winter when there are not many flowers around.

Beekeepers get the honey out of beehives for us to eat."

Key Words

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• Use Teacher Talk to stimulate discussion of topic.

• Develop research skills based on this topic.

• Use Table of Contents to locate specific information.

• Refer to Glossary to clarify basic concepts.

• Identify soft c sound: cell • Use initial letter plus picture clues to read unknown words.

• Notice compound words: honeycomb inside beeswax • Use captions to expand on text.

• Promote drama, writing or art as follow-up activities.

Word Count = 220

Contents Hives Bees Honeycomb Flowers Nectar Beeswax Beekeepers Honey

Page 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16

First published in 2006 by Red Rocket Readers, an imprint of Flying Start Books Ltd. Reprinted 2007, 2009.

2 Birkdale Road, Verrans Corner, Birkenhead, Auckland, New Zealand. story © Rosalind Hayhoe ISBN 978-1-877435-08-9 Printed in New Zealand Photo researcher Rosalind Hayhoe Photographs on pages 2 and 14 supplied by www.stockcentral.co.nz All other photographs supplied by Jupiter Unlimited This book is copyright. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without permission in writing from the publisher. www.redrocketreaders.com

written by Rosalind Hayhoe

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Bees have been making honey for millions of years!

Honey is food for bees.

They make honey in their homes, which are called hives.

beehives 2

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A queen bee lives in a hive , with some bees called drones.

There are thousands of worker bees, too.

They look after the hive and make the honey.

hive 4

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honeycomb

The bees make a honeycomb to keep their honey in.

It is made from beeswax.

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It has holes in it that are a hexagon shape.

They are called cells.

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nectar

Bees have two stomachs.

One is for food and one is just for carrying nectar.

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Bees fly from flower to flower and suck out the sweet nectar from inside.

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swarm of bees

The bees fly back to the hive when their honey stomachs are full.

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They put the nectar into the honeycomb cells so it can turn into honey.

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beeswax

The bees make their wings go up and down quickly. , That helps to dry the nectar.

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The nectar turns into honey.

Then they put some beeswax over the top of each cell.

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beekeepers

Beekeepers can get the honey out of the hives.

They cut out the honeycomb when it is full of honey.

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Beekeepers have to wear special clothes so that they don't get bee stings!

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We can eat honey from a honeycomb or from a jar.

Honey is our food from the bees!

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Glossary

beeswax

ellow wax that bees use to make y honeycombs

cell

one hole in the honeycomb

hexagon

a shape with six sides

honeycomb

place to store honey made a from beeswax

hive

a home for bees

nectar

sweet juice from inside a flower

stomach

art of the body where food is p held

swarm

a large group of bees

Early Level 4

Non-Fiction Set A Guided R/R DRA Reading Intervention Level G-H

12-14

12-14

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