What do bees make in the hive?
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.
What do bees make in the hive?
- milk
- bread
- honeyCorrect answer
Why “honey” is correct
This follows a sequence — flower, nectar, hive, honey — and following steps in order is the real demand of an informational talk. Replay the talk and count the steps on your fingers together, one finger per step. If your child answers "nectar", they have the sequence right and stopped one step early, which is much closer to correct than it looks, so tell them so and then ask what happens to the nectar once it reaches the hive.
Why the other answers are wrong
- milk — Milk is not mentioned and does not come from bees. Children pair it with honey because both are things we drink or eat.
- bread — Bread is made by people, not bees. This choice catches a child who is thinking about food in general rather than the talk.
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