Suz and the Honey Bee Adventure
About the Book
When a black kitten arrives at the Rescued Cats’ Centre she is given the name Suz. As Suz grows up, it becomes clear a mistake has been made for ‘she’ is, in fact, a ‘he’. One day, a bee goes buzzing by and Suz, being a curious kind of cat, decides to follow him on an exciting adventure.
ISBN 978-0-9941202-9-8
$15.00
About Suz
When a black kitten arrives at the Rescued Cats’ Centre she is given the name Suz. As Suz grows up, it becomes clear a mistake has been made for ‘she’ is, in fact, a ‘he’. One day, a bee goes buzzing by and Suz, being a curious kind of cat, decides to follow him on an exciting adventure.
About the Book
When Suz first comes to the Rescued Cats’ Centre he is mistakenly thought to be a female kitten. By the time it is realised he is a male it is too late – the name has stuck! The story Suz and the Honey Bee Adventure tells how Suz, a ‘curious kind of a cat’, likes to know what is going on. This curiosity leads him to follow the honey bee to the bee hives at a nearby school. There, along with the school children, he learns how honey is processed. This story is a fun way for young readers to learn about the production of an everyday food. This book is an excellent tool for conveying the principles of the concept of ‘from garden to table’ and also the importance of bees to our diet. One third of the food we eat benefits from bee pollination eg vegetables, nuts and seeds, including foraging foods for our life stock.
Teacher Notes
Preschool and Year One and Two
Use the front cover to introduce Suz and the honey bee. Ask questions of the children to find out what they already know about honey bees and why they are important to us. On the inside back cover there is factual information about how bees make honey. Read the story asking questions appropriate to the age group. Help the children to draw their own bees creating a head, thorax and abdomen to which they can attach wings and legs.
Follow-up activity. Make up a chart of all the foods in our diet benefitting from bee pollination. This can be done through use of pictures cut from magazines and making three subtitles – vegetables, nuts and seeds. Discuss the importance of having healthy bee hives and how we can contribute to this. Where possible arrange a visit to a bee hive or look at setting up a beehive at school or develop a vegetable and flower garden and encourage the children to observe the bees at work collecting pollen and nectar.
