Purple Day Podcast #36: LaQuisha & the Honeybees

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About this Episode

This podcast episode includes a spring-themed circle time with songs, poems, and fingerplays, followed by a gentle, nature-based story.

In this week's episode of Purple Day, we will sing songs about flowers and bees and hear a story about a little girl who loves to pick flowers. This Storytime episode will teach you and your child seasonal songs, poems, fingerplays, and a nature-based story. Enjoy Storytime with your child and deepen your connection to each other and the world around you.

Spring Circle Time Highlights

Here is a beehive, unknown

Here is a beehive, but where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch, and you’ll see them come out of the hive.
One, two, three, four, five.

Here is a beehive, but where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch, and you’ll see them come out again.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

About the Story: LaQuisha & the Honeybees

After circle time, we hear a story together. In this episode, we hear the story of LaQuisha & the Honeybees. LaQuisha loves flowers and loves picking flowers for her mother. She loves them so much that she wants to pick them all! However, by the end of the story, LaQuisha realizes she can leave the flowers growing, still enjoy them, and share them with hundreds of honeybees.

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