LOW - B

B also ended up being a 2 week letter, there are so many good words out there that the kids know that start with B!  The first week was a butterfly, bee, and black focus; the second concentrated on boats, buttons, and blue. 
For black we did our standard color collage followed by a black scavenger hunt.  I think Faith's favorite part of this was making the pepper in the shape of a B.

Next we made a Bumblebee B, that I found on No Time For Flash Cards.  We also sang the Bumblebee Song which of course the girls just loved!  And yes, we did pre-school this day in our PJs, just one more reason I love homeschooling :)

 

I used another idea from NTFFC and made some hand print butterflies, monarch butterflies to be exact.  I also found a great butterfly song there which we sang and Faith remembered it when we were reading our butterfly book during reading time each day.

 

The girls had a good time making Play dough Bs with Daddy one day as well.

 





Our books for this week of the letter B were Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons, an author from whom I am learning nearly as much as the girls :), and Buzz, Buzz, Buzz Went Bumblebee by Colin West.  Next time we get around to this letter, I would also like to look for Buzz by Elieen Spinelli.

For the second week of B we started with making some lower case b boats.

Next we made probably the girls' favorite craft during this letter, their own boats.  I modified this idea from NTFFC and the girls absolutely loved it.  Their made their sails and the nautical flag of their letter and in the evening Frank and I pushed the girls around, taking them to Faithland, Rebekahland, and everywhere in between.  The next day the girls loved "sailing" their dolls around as well!  What a hit!

The girls have started up gymnastics classes and I am trying to take our crafts on the road with us to have each girl busy learning and creating while the other one is engaged in her class.  This week we glued buttons onto Bs.

 

To reinforce the B, I bought the girls these bathtime sail boats and their both loved them!  For our final craft, Frank made a corn hole board and we tossed the beanbags around.  One craft we never got around to (because of our all day trip to the 2012 LRAFB Air Show and the delay on getting the book from the library with their "new" system) was a sensory tub based on The Deep Blue Sea.  I was going to have the girls fill a tub with blue water, add a red brick for the rock, make a green tree, use an avocado pit for the brown nut, make a purple parrot, and then re-use their orange butterflies from the week prior.  I was excited about it but it is just, another idea for the next time this letter comes around!

Our books during this portion of B were Boats! Speeding, Sailing, Cruising and the always popular Belly Button Book.