The Honey Bee
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KS1 Music The Bee Song 1 The Honey Bee Time to work and time to travel Black and yellow honey bee. Time to search, must leave the beehive And start working busily Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz honey bee, Counting crotchets busily Always busy never lazy Pollinating merrily Sitting, sipping Tasting nectar lazily Pollen, gathering In our sacks contentedly Buzz, buzz, honey bee, Counting minims drowsily, Honey bee just keeps on working Pollinating merrily Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry tell the others, Waggle dance so merrily Quickly quickly tell them where to find the nectar Make the honey for our tea. Buzzy buzzy buzzy buzzy honey bee Quickly counting lots of quavers rapidly Honey bee just keeps on working; yes he really keeps on working Quickly counting lots of quavers merrily
Transcript of The Honey Bee
KS1 Music The Bee Song 1
The Honey BeeTime to work and time to travelBlack and yellow honey bee.Time to search, must leave the beehiveAnd start working busily
Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz honey bee,Counting crotchets busilyAlways busy never lazyPollinating merrily
Sitting, sippingTasting nectar lazilyPollen, gatheringIn our sacks contentedly
Buzz, buzz, honey bee,Counting minims drowsily,Honey bee just keeps on workingPollinating merrily
Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry tell the others,Waggle dance so merrilyQuickly quickly tell them where to find the nectarMake the honey for our tea.
Buzzy buzzy buzzy buzzy honey beeQuickly counting lots of quavers rapidlyHoney bee just keeps on working; yes he really keeps on workingQuickly counting lots of quavers merrily
KS1 Music The Bee Song 2
Introducing the CROTCHET
KS1 Music The Bee Song 3
Introducing the MINIM
KS1 Music The Bee Song 4
Introducing the QUAVER
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KS1 Music The Bee Song 6
Rhythmic Examples
KS1 Music The Bee Song 7
Teachers NotesThis delightful song has been composed for a variety of uses.
For a music lesson teaching Key Stage 1 children to discern the basic three note values (Crotchet, Minim and Quaver)
For this purpose the teacher demonstrates the crotchet beat and verse and chorus one are sung to a strict pulse. The teacher then demonstrates the minim beat and verse and chorus two are sung to a strict pulse. This is repeated with the quaver beat. If drumsticks are available, the children can tap the note value for reinforcement.
The teacher then plays the Rhythmic Examples in a random order, as a guessing game. After four bars the teacher asks for the note value to be identified and the delighted children join in.
This song can be used during a themed week to enhance science week, environment week, 'honey week' etc.
This song can be learnt as part of a colourful production or assembly with costumes or head dresses to suggest a bee/honey theme. A simple but effective dance could be devised to reflect the note value differences.
