Bradley Making Honey 1

“Making Honey” School Journal Part 2 Number 4 2000

Finish these sentences using words from the story

Jessie’s mother is a beekeeper

Her hives produce mainly pohutukawa

A beehive is a community of honeybee

The queen bee’s job is lay eggs

Some worker bees collect nectar & pollen

Honeybees may fly up to 8 kilometres from their hive

To show where the best flowers are, they do a special dance

The time to collect the honey is when the trees stop flowering at the end of summer

The guard bees job is to protect the hive

Fill in the spaces.

	Add ‘s’ or ‘es’	Add ‘ed’ or ‘d’	Add ‘ing’ (you might need to take off the ‘e’)
love	loves	loved	loving
taste	tastes	tasted	Tasting
produces	produces	produced	producing
lay	lays	laid	laying
collect	collects	collected	collecting
fly	flyes	flyed	flying
dance	dances	danced	dancing
protect	protects	protected	protecting
sting	Stings	stung	stinging