Where do bees get nectar?
Listen to an Oral Presentation · ELPAC Kindergarten listening. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
A presentation on an academic topic, followed by three or four questions.
Sit with your child. This is a short talk about bees, like one a teacher would give. Before you play it, tell your child that nectar is the sweet juice inside a flower. Then play the talk and read each question and its three answers aloud.
Bees
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Bees are small. Bees can fly. Bees go from flower to flower. They get food from the flowers. The food is called nectar. Bees take the nectar back to the hive. In the hive, bees make honey. We eat the honey. Bees help flowers grow too.
The question
Read the question and the three answers aloud to your child.
Where do bees get nectar?
- from rocks
- from flowersCorrect answer
- from rain
Why “from flowers” is correct
An oral presentation at this age is just a short factual talk, and this question turns on one word your child has almost certainly never heard: nectar. That is why the instruction asks you to explain it before you press play — pre-teaching a single key word is what a teacher would do, and it is often the difference between a child following the talk and a child lost in it. If the answer does not come, replay the talk and ask "where do the bees go first?"
Why the other answers are wrong
- from rocks — Rocks are never mentioned, and nothing sweet comes out of them. This answer usually means your child did not catch the word nectar at all.
- from rain — Rain is a familiar word that sounds like it belongs with plants, but the talk says nectar comes from flowers.
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