Flee from the Bees!
Lesson Plan
Target Words:
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bee
- see
- tree
- flee
- need
- wee
Materials:
- A real tree, a tree made out of paper,* or a picture of a tree*
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Flee from a Bee target text*
*Items and examples included below.
State the Objective
The children will play a game called Flee, Bee! and will read and write words spelled with ee, such as flee, see, bee, and tree.
Literacy Activities
Flee from the bees
- Hold three fingers together like a bee and tell the children that you will be the "bee.
- Take the children to a tree, a tree made of paper, or a picture of a tree (see below).
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Buzz like a bee and approach the children. When you come near, have them wave their arms and say, "Flee, bee!:
Read target words
- Read the Flee from a Bee target text (see below) as a group.
- Underline all the ee words found in the text.
Write about the activity
- Have the children write ee words from dictation (e.g., peek, feel, need, seek, greet, meet, flee, see, bee, need, tree, free).
- Let the children help fill in sentence frames:
- I ___ (see) a ___ (bee).
- The ___ (bee) is in a ___(tree).
- I don't want to ___ (meet) a ___ (bee).
- I ___ (need) to ___ (flee).
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SEEL Target Texts
Flee from a Bee
I see a tree.
Up in the tree, I see three bees.
I see a big bee.
I see a wee, little bee.
I see a bee with fuzz!
Up in the tree, I see three bees.
I see a big bee.
I see a wee, little bee.
I see a bee with fuzz!
I flee from the tree!
I flee from the bees!
I flee from the bees!
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Standards
SEEL lessons align with Common Core Standards. Please see the standards page for the code(s) associated with this lesson.
http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/
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Flee from the Bees!


