Grade 3 · Week 2Main idea
Bees and the Food We Eat
Grade 3 week 2. Bees and the food we eat: main idea and supporting details, regular plurals with the es rule, and verbs.
On screen - your kid, alone
- 1Day 1 - Meet the story
- 2Day 2 - Word work
- 3Day 3 - What it means
- 4Day 4 - Fix & re-read
- 5Day 5 - Show what you know
Offline - with you
Print the pages for offline work together; the answer key is for you.
Watch for this: children read boxes as boxs because they see the ending and not the extra beat. Clap the beats together, one clap for box and two for boxes. On day 5 your child reads their sentence to you and you ask them one question, which is printed on the screen. Listen to how they read branches.
Bees and the Food We Eat
Look at your lunch. An apple, some almonds, a bowl of berries. Every one began inside a flower. Deep inside a flower sits a fine yellow dust called pollen. A plant needs pollen before it can make a seed, and every crop starts with a seed. A bee lands on a flower to drink the sweet nectar. Pollen sticks to the hairs on her legs. When she flies to the next flower, some of that pollen brushes off. Now that flower can make a seed too. Bees visit hundreds of flowers a day, and they are not even trying to help us. Farmers depend on bees. A farmer who grows apples may set wooden boxes of bees along the edge of the field. Each box holds a hive. A beekeeper looks after the hives all season. She lifts the frames, checks for pollen and honey, and sweeps the bees home with soft brushes so nobody is hurt. Without bees, our dishes would look plain. No apples. No almonds. No berries. Much of our food depends on one small insect.