The B.e.e. program
child educators use the following information and activities with the children:
Activities:
Activity
1 Activity
6
Activity 2
Activity 7
Activity 3
Activity
8
Activity 4 Activity
9
Activity 5 Activity
10
Other:
Character Critters (Louisiana
State University Research & Extension)
Books:
Activity 1 (color, shape, size, jewelry/clothing):
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest (Steve Jenkins)
Little Blue and Little Yellow (Leo Lionni)
White Rabbit's Color Book (Alan Baker)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Bill Martin, Jr.)
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? (Nancy White Carlstrom)
The Dress I'll Wear to the Party (Shirley Neitzel)
Hello Cat, You Need A Hat (Rita Gelman)
A Hat for Minerva Louise (Janet Morgan Stoeke)
Activity 2 (colors, letters):
Little Blue and Little Yellow (Leo Lionni)
White Rabbit's Color Book (Alan Baker)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Bill Martin, Jr.)
David McPhail's Animals A to Z (David McPhail)
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault)
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z (Lois Ehlert)
Activity 3 (miscellaneous):
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
(Judi Barrett)
Mooncake (Frank Asch)
More Spaghetti, I Say (Rita Gelman)
One, Two, Three, Count With Me (Catherine and Laurence Anholt)
It Looked Like Spilt Milk (Charles Shaw)
Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown)
If You Give a Moose a Muffin (Laura Numeroff)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Laura Numeroff)
Pinkie Leaves Home (Peter O'Donnell)
Each Peach Pear Plum (Janet and Allan Aulberg)
I Spy - series (Walten Wick)
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (John Steptoe)
Rosie's Walk (Pat Hutchins)
Stone Soup (Ann McGovern or Marcia Brown)
Over in the Meadow (Ezra Jack Keats) - based on original version by Olive
A. Wadsworth
One Duck Stuck (Phyllis Root)
1, 2, 3 to the Zoo (Eric Carle)
David McPhail's Animals A to Z (David McPhail)
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault)
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z (Lois Ehlert)
Activity 4 (colors):
Little Blue and Little Yellow (Leo Lionni)
White Rabbit's Color Book (Alan Baker)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Bill Martin, Jr.)
Activity 5 (miscellaneous):
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
(Judi Barrett)
Mooncake (Frank Asch)
More Spaghetti, I Say (Rita Gelman)
One, Two, Three, Count With Me (Catherine and Laurence Anholt)
It Looked Like Spilt Milk (Charles Shaw)
Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown)
If You Give a Moose a Muffin (Laura Numeroff)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Laura Numeroff)
Pinkie Leaves Home (Peter O'Donnell)
Each Peach Pear Plum (Janet and Allan Aulberg)
I Spy - series (Walten Wick)
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (John Steptoe)
Rosie's Walk (Pat Hutchins)
Stone Soup (Ann McGovern or Marcia Brown)
Over in the Meadow (Ezra Jack Keats) - based on original version by Olive
A. Wadsworth
One Duck Stuck (Phyllis Root)
1, 2, 3 to the Zoo (Eric Carle)
David McPhail's Animals A to Z (David
McPhail)
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault)
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z (Lois Ehlert)
Activity 6 (fishing):
My River (Shari Halpern)
In the Small, Small Pond (Denise Fleming)
The Little Fish That Got Away (Bernadine Cook)
6 Foolish Fishermen (Benjamin Elkin)
Activity 7 (fossils, dinosaurs):
Dinosaurs (Gail Gibbons)
Dinosaurs (Gallimed Jeunesse et al.)
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs (Byron Barton)
Dinosaur Day (Liza Donnelly)
The Dinosaur Who Lived In My Backyard (B. G. Hennessy)
The Last Dinosaur (Jim Murphy)
I'm Tyrannosaurus (Jean Marzollo)
Danny and the Dinosaur (Syd Hoff)
Activity 8 (zoo):
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing (Judi Barrett)
Goodnight Gorilla (Peggy Rathmann)
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do Your Hear? (Bill Martin, Jr.)
Animal Parade (Jakki Wood)
Mooncake (Frank Asch)
1, 2, 3 to the Zoo (Eric Carle)
David McPhail's Animals A to Z (David McPhail)
Over in the Meadow (Ezra Jack Keats) - based on original version by Olive
A. Wadsworth
One Duck Stuck (Phyllis Root)
Activity 9 (emotions):
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
(Judith Viorst)
The Grouchy Ladybug (Eric Carle)
There's A Nightmare in My Closet (Mercer Mayer)
I Was So Mad (Norma Simon)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse (Jeanne Modesitt)
Jamberry (Bruce Degen)
A Mother for Choco (Keiko Kaska)
Goodnight Gorilla (Peggy Rathmann)
Jamaica Tag-a-Long (Juanita
Hill)
I'll Always Love You (Hans Wilhelm)
Abiyoyo (Pete Seegers)
Little Rabbit's Loose Tooth (Lucy Bate)
The Tub People (Pam Conrad)
Whose Mouse Are You? (Robert Kraus)
Leo the Late Bloomer (Robert Kraus)
Guess How Much I Love You (Sam McBratney)
Activity 10 (insects, arachnids, annelids, mollusks):
Old Black Fly (Jim Aylesworth)
I Know an Old Lady (Brian Karas)
Miss Spider's Tea Party (David Kirk)
Butterflies (Hidetome Oda)
Butterfly Story (Anca Hariton)
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock (Eric Kimmel)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
The Very Busy Spider (Eric Carle)
The Grouchy Ladybug (Eric Carle)
A House for Hermit Crab (Eric Carle)
*Miscellaneous books can
be used with any of the activities.
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Educators in each county use supplemental resources
(books, activities, etc.) based on the child's needs/interests.
