The Queen's Feet
Queen bee!
Story Summary:The book "The Queen's Feet" by Sarah Ellis has a humorous story line that children can easily relate to. Queen Daisy's feet cannot behave royally. They behave in a manner that is not acceptable for a queen. At the end of the story she learns the importance of using self-control, balance and compromise.
Queen Daisy's feet did not like to behave and often got the queen in trouble, until finally one day the royal officials got together and came up with a plan to give the queen's feet one hour a day when they could do whatever they wanted, but for the rest of the day they must behave properly.
Some Learning Objectives:
Compare and contrast - Make connections between the "The Queen's Feet" book with the "Honeybee and the Robber." Think and talk about
how humans interact and communicate with each other and how the bees communicate and interact with each other.
Students will "recognize that people and other animals interact with the environment through their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste,
communication, and behavior.
Materials for an Activity:
Procedure:
Label the plates with the numbers 1 through 12. Place them on the floor, four in a row. (First Row: 1, 2, 3, 4 Second Row: 5, 6, 7, 8 Third Row: 9, 10, 11, 12)
On the chart paper, write "Flowers on the playground: 6, 7, 8, 4, 3, 2, 6, 7, 8, 4, 3, 2," "Flowers by the brook: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 11, 10, 9, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 11, 10, 9, 5," and "Flowers in the field: 1, 6, 11, 8, 4, 8, 11, 6, 1."
If you plan on making this book available for students to read on their own, be certain to review how to use it, as the pop-up tabs tend to be fragile.
Turn to the page where the bee does the dance to show where the flowers were. Talk about how bees uses these dances to communicate.
Have a student use one of the patterns displayed on the chart paper to step on the corresponding plates. While the student is doing the "bee dance," have other students use the paper and pencils to record the pattern. When the dance is done, have students try to identify which dance it was.
LESSON EXTENSION
Try laying out more paper plates to give students the option of creating more intricate dances.
Related Resources
Buzzing a Hive by Jean C. Echols
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/
www.eric-carle.com
www.picturebookart.org
This lesson can be found at the link below: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=1015
Links:
The song "The Queen's Feet" from the Alpha Tunes CD would be used the reinforce the letter sound of "Qq". The children will enjoy participating in the actions within the song and hearing the "Qq" sounding words. http://www.kinderplans.com/content.cfm?pageid=153
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/insects/bee.htm
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3234
http://www.nature-watch.com/the-bumblebee-queen-book-p-1305.html?cPath=142_147
http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/viewWorkDetail.do?workId=1161311&
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/robber_and_the_honeybee.php
http://www.bees-online.com/KidsHoneyBeeBooks.htm
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/showarticle/622
Text-to-Text Connections :
"The Knight that was Afraid of the Dark"
"Rumpelstilskin"
"The Tale of Custard the Dragon"
Queen Daisy's feet did not like to behave and often got the queen in trouble, until finally one day the royal officials got together and came up with a plan to give the queen's feet one hour a day when they could do whatever they wanted, but for the rest of the day they must behave properly.
Some Learning Objectives:
Compare and contrast - Make connections between the "The Queen's Feet" book with the "Honeybee and the Robber." Think and talk about
how humans interact and communicate with each other and how the bees communicate and interact with each other.
Students will "recognize that people and other animals interact with the environment through their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste,
communication, and behavior.
Materials for an Activity:
- The Honeybee and the Robber by Eric Carle
- pencils (one per student)
- paper (one piece per student)
- Sharpie marker
- chart paper
- chart stand
- large paper plates (about 12)
Procedure:
Label the plates with the numbers 1 through 12. Place them on the floor, four in a row. (First Row: 1, 2, 3, 4 Second Row: 5, 6, 7, 8 Third Row: 9, 10, 11, 12)
On the chart paper, write "Flowers on the playground: 6, 7, 8, 4, 3, 2, 6, 7, 8, 4, 3, 2," "Flowers by the brook: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 11, 10, 9, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 11, 10, 9, 5," and "Flowers in the field: 1, 6, 11, 8, 4, 8, 11, 6, 1."
If you plan on making this book available for students to read on their own, be certain to review how to use it, as the pop-up tabs tend to be fragile.
Turn to the page where the bee does the dance to show where the flowers were. Talk about how bees uses these dances to communicate.
Have a student use one of the patterns displayed on the chart paper to step on the corresponding plates. While the student is doing the "bee dance," have other students use the paper and pencils to record the pattern. When the dance is done, have students try to identify which dance it was.
LESSON EXTENSION
Try laying out more paper plates to give students the option of creating more intricate dances.
Related Resources
Buzzing a Hive by Jean C. Echols
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/
www.eric-carle.com
www.picturebookart.org
This lesson can be found at the link below: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=1015
Links:
The song "The Queen's Feet" from the Alpha Tunes CD would be used the reinforce the letter sound of "Qq". The children will enjoy participating in the actions within the song and hearing the "Qq" sounding words. http://www.kinderplans.com/content.cfm?pageid=153
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/insects/bee.htm
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3234
http://www.nature-watch.com/the-bumblebee-queen-book-p-1305.html?cPath=142_147
http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/viewWorkDetail.do?workId=1161311&
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/robber_and_the_honeybee.php
http://www.bees-online.com/KidsHoneyBeeBooks.htm
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/showarticle/622
Text-to-Text Connections :
"The Knight that was Afraid of the Dark"
"Rumpelstilskin"
"The Tale of Custard the Dragon"