Every February our boys' elementary school celebrates "I Love to Read Month!" One of the festivities is "mystery reader" day, when parents, unbeknownst to their kids, volunteer to show up one day dressed in full costume to read a book to the kids! Each parent is assigned two classrooms to visit where they read their book, and afterwards the costumed parents go on a little parade throughout the building. Naturally, this year I just had to volunteer to read a bee-related book! This was also a great excuse for me to get the new shirt/veil that I've been wanting to get, since mine was a little grimy, and a new pair of gloves because one of mine somehow became ripped after I put them away last season!
I borrowed
this cute book called "Bee and Me" from my parents to read! It was just the right length for the 10-15 minutes I had, has some fun moving images as the pages turn, and in the back has a couple pages of interesting bee facts that the kids enjoyed! And of course, EVERYONE has a story of being stung by a "bee," so it was a great chance to talk about how friendly honeybees actually are! I could spend an hour at least teaching kids about bees, but this was a fun event and I had a great time!
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| Showing the kids how much honey one bee makes in her entire lifetime! |
I brought along my smoker and the kids really loved smelling the smoky puffs of air that came out if it!
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| All the readers dressed up! |
I really wanted to show a few pages from
"Bees: A Honeyed History" which is an AWESOME book, super huge and gorgeous illustrations of all things bees!! But, time just went too quick....maybe next year!
