The bee [poem]

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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People

Title: The bee [poem]
Creator: Campoy, Angel V.
Language: English
Source: Young Citizen, 7 (9) September 1941
Year: 1941
Subject: Poetry (Literary form); Bee behavior
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Fulltext: 312 THE. YOUNG CITIZEN SEPTEMBER, 1941 FOR THIRD GRADERS THE BEE By ANGEL V. CAMPOY• THE BUSIEST creature I have seen, · So happy and so free, Who hums and· works the whole day long, Is the busy little bee .. Little bee, your ways have taught me How to spend the golden day, And I'll try to be more like thee, Working hard with time for play. A Lesson for. a Good Reader THE BEE is, indeed, a very busy little creature. And he is happy because he is busy. What is the work which he does all the day long? The .bee's work is to gather nectar from the flowers. From this nectar he makes honey. The honey he stores away in a hollow tree or in a beehive. It is very pleasant to hear the hum of the little bees as they go from flower to flower doing their work. Did you know that the bees have a queen? The worker bees will follow their queen wherever she goes., Sometimes bees will leave a beehive and follow their queen to another hive, where they will make a new home. What can you and I learn from the bees? We can learn to be busy and happy. We can also learn to be thrifty. Something to Find Out Find out how the bee "hums." Does he do it with his voice? Or how does he do it? How does the bee get nectar from the flowers? Watch and find out. Also find out how the bee helps the flower. How do the bees store the honey which th13y make? Can you tell what honey-comb is? •Formerly Head T~acher, Maslog Primary School, Sibulan, Oriental Negros.