easy,
Making honey is not easy.
Not at all! Not at all!
So we stay the whole day busy,
So we stay the whole day busy
Making thicker a waxy wall.
Let us go or come with us:
There’re more flowers in the grass!
Turning nectar into honey
Turning nectar into honey
Day and night! Day and night!
Our honey’s sweet and sunny,
Our honey’s sweet and sunny.
Clumsy please have a little bite!
Come with us or let us go.
Flowers’re waiting for us you know.
In the meadow
One sunny day a very funny little brown bear – his name is Clumsy – wants to get some honey. He goes to the meadow and sings a song. He is very happy because it’s Monday today and on Mondays he always has some honey for breakfast. But today he hasn’t got any honey at home so he’s ready to visit his friends, the bees, and ask them to give him some honey.
When he comes to the bees’ house he sees a strange note on the door. It says: “There aren’t any flowers near our house so we fly far-far away. If you can draw some blue, red, yellow and purple flowers, we will come back.”
Poor, poor bear… He can’t read the strange note because he is so little. He doesn’t go to school. He can’t read or write but he can sing songs and dance, and he can run and jump in the wood. He doesn’t know what to do and wants to eat, so he sits and cries.
“Why are you crying, little bear?”
“Who is that?”
“It’s me. I’m a butterfly. I’m flying in the sky and I see a poor bear crying on the grass. Why are you crying?”
“Because I wanted to ask the bees to give me some honey but there aren’t any bees at their home. And there is a strange note on the door but I can’t read. Boohoo…”
“Don’t cry, little bear, let’s ask for help.”
My friend! Can you help us? If you can read the strange note, draw the picture. Don’t forget to draw the bees’ house.
Frogs and Fish
When it’s raining cats and dogs,
We are happy, ‘cause we’re frogs!
If there is no rain, we stay
In the river for the whole day.
Splash-splash-splash
Wet-wet-wet,
Dumpy-jumpy never sad!
Wet-wet-wet,
Splash-splash-splash,
Singing our songs in Welsh!
Fish (singing):
Jumpy frogs are my best friends.
Lovely song, that never ends.
They can jump and I can swim,
We are really a team!
(singing as a trio):
Splash-splash-splash
Swim-swim-swim,
By the bank and in the stream.
Jump-jump-jump,
Wet-wet-wet,
See you Clumsy for a chat!
In and by the river
When the bees see the beautiful picture of bright flowers, they will come back and bring some honey for our poor bear.
After breakfast bears usually go swimming in the river. Clumsy goes swimming, too. He likes playing in the water with the fish and jumping like a frog in the grass.
“Why do you swim so fast?” he asks the fish.
“Because we haven’t got any legs or arms to stop us. We’ve got only fins and tails to help us. Have you got any fins?”
“No, I haven’t. But I’ve got a big body and strong paws.”
“That’s why you can’t swim very fast.”
Clumsy is very sad. No, he can’t swim very fast but he can jump with frogs.
“Frogs, frogs, why do you jump so high?”
“Because we‘ve got long legs and we can sing beautifully, too.”
“Ha, ha! You can’t sing at all. Look! The bees can fly far-far away. What do you see, bees?”
“ZZZ…We fly over the city and see a lot of people. They have different jobs. Builders build houses, engineers draw cars, doctors treat people, pupils go to school and teachers teach them. They are busy all day long.”
“So they never play…Poor people. But I like playing very much. Bees, let’s play hide-and-seek. I’ll count up to ten and you hide.”
The bear closes his eyes and counts. When he opens his eyes he can’t see any bees. He begins to look for them.
My friend! Let’s help Clumsy. Draw the bees. One bee is on the yellow flower, two bees are under the purple flower, one bee is by the tree and three bees are behind the bees’ house. How many bees are playing with him?
Owl’s song
My eyes are big and bright as amber.
I have a voice, that you’ll remember.
I’m very old and very clever.
My name is Owl. Forget me never.
Hush-hush-hush!
Make no rush.
Please be quiet
As at night.
My nose is very sharp and hooky,
I know some stories strange and spooky.
But don’t get frightened Clumsy-bear,
You’ll like my favorite story I swear!
Hush-hush-hush!
No need to rush.
Look at the shelf!
(pointing to the raspberry jam jar)
And please help yourself!
In the wood
Hide-and-seek is a very funny game. But Clumsy is tired and hungry. He is sad. He always has raspberry jam for lunch, but raspberries grow only in the dark wood. The bees can’t help him; they work in the meadow. The frogs can give him only flies for lunch. But who likes flies? The fish can give him worms and grass. But bears don’t eat worms. So the bear goes to the wood.
The old wood is dark and spooky. You can’t see the sun in the afternoon or the moon and the stars at night. Strange birds and animals live in the wood. Wicked wolves and cowardly hares live there.
Clumsy is very brave and he has got many friends in the wood. So he goes to an old oak. An owl lives there. The owl knows a lot of different spooky stories and she can make tasty raspberry jam.
“Hey, dear owl! How are you? Give me some raspberry jam.”
“Don’t say “give me”! Say “Can I have” Ah! It’s you, my little bear. Come in.”
Clumsy comes in and sees the mess. The cups are on the floor, the table is on the bed, the chair is in the cupboard, the mirror is behind the armchair.
“What’s the matter?”
“The squirrels often play in my house