Ryers Readers - A Very Greedy Bee

Episode Date: January 12, 2024

The very greedy bee has a hard time sharing. Will anyone help the greedy bee when he can’t find his way home?!

Let's do this! Thank you so much for tuning into today's story. Don't forget to rate and follow, so you never miss out on all the rires, readers, fun. Before we get into the story, do you want to know a fun fact? Did you know that bees are basically tiny little chefs? They love to make honey in their beehive. They collect nectar from flowers and mix. it with some special juices and store it all in their honeycombs. Then they fan their wings super fast and it dries all out. The special mixture becomes honey. Pretty cool, huh? Okay,

story time. Today we are going to read The Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman. In a busy, buzzy beehive lived a very greedy bee. All the other bees worked hard making honey and cleaning the hive, but the greedy bee spent all day gobbling up pollen and guzzling nectar. Slurp, slurp, burp. Slurp, slurp, burp. The greedy bee wouldn't share his nectar with anyone. He wouldn't even let the tired, lark.

ladybug sit on his flower. Find your own flower, he shouted. This one is mine. Mine. And when one day, the greedy bee found a meadow full of the biggest, juiciest flowers he had ever seen, he decided not to tell anyone. Yummy, he buzzed. Lots and lots of flowers, and they're all for me.

Wow. The greedy bee whizzed and bized from flower to flower, slurping and burping and growing fatter and fatter and fatter and fatter. At last, his tummy was full, and he settled down on a big pink flower in the warm yellow sunshine and fell fast asleep. When the greedy bee woke up, it was dark. He had tried to fly, but his tummy was. so roly and so polly that biff bang thump he went down instead of up and crashed biff bang thump to the ground cried the greedy bee and i don't know how to get home

then he saw two glowing eyes in the long grass he cried a monster's coming to eat me But it wasn't a monster. It was two friendly fireflies, their bottoms glowing in the dark. What's wrong? they asked. I'm too full to fly, wailed the greedy bee, and I can't walk home in the dark. Follow us, said the fireflies, and they all set off on the long, long journey home. Through the forests of flowers and squishy mud, over the hills and under the stars,

trudged the greedy bee. He had never walked so far, and he was very tired. Nearly there, called the fireflies. Then they heard the whoosh of rushing water. I'm almost home, cried the greedy bee excitedly. It's the stream. And it was, but his hive was on the other side.

Oh, no, said the greedy bee, sadly flopping down on the grass. How will I ever get across? We'll help you, said a tiny ant with a big leaf. The ant and his friends flipped the big leaf into the water. Jump on, they cried. Helped by the fireflies, the greedy bee and the ants made their way splishing and splashing to the other side of the stream. Cheered the greedy bee. Where have you been? asked the other bees.

I overslurped, said the greedy bee. I would never have made it home if my new friends hadn't been so kind. Now I'm going to share my best honey with them. Would you like some too? Yes, said the other bees. Let's have a party. Everyone enjoyed a midnight feast of yummy, runny honey. All except for one very sleepy, very happy, but not so greedy bee.

The end. Get to stick around to see if you can answer today's paying attention question. Before you go, do you think you can answer today's paying attention question? Who helped the very greedy bee see where he was going in the dark? If your answer was, the fireflies? You did it! Great job! You sure were paying attention! I hope you enjoyed that story. I wonder what we're going to read next.