School with Letter B

  Another successful week completed. Another letter set to memory with learning and fun along the way.  Repetition is key and incorporating it in a variety of ways solidifies the word.  After this week he not only points out the letters he sees he will tell me the b words he learned. This is a ball and it starts with a letter b.

  B kept us busy everyday from bike rides to baseball!  We were not in a shortage of ideas to go outside.

  We did 2 miles on the bike this day.  It was not easy and he wanted to turn back which essentially at that point still would have been 2 miles.  Baseball is a work in progress.  He is a lefty so we got the bat accurate but my throw is not always precise.  He does pretty good though and we need to work desperately on throws and catches.

  He had structured computer time for the alphabet song (somehow he skip's letter j everytime), some letter games and to aid in phonics.

  We pulled out beans and did several different things with them.  He needed to find the letters A-Z in the alphabet soup.  Using a pair of tongs he pulled them out and placed them appropriately.

I am not quite concerned with him pulling them out in order or knowing them.  He doesn't know all of them but this is a good way of getting familiar with them. 

We used the same sheet to match bottle tops with the letter.

He can match the letters together.

Here I called out the object on the sheet and he spelled out the words by finding what letter the object was. Such as r was for ring.

We read some great books just like last week.  One book for although it centered around the winter season we used it to our current advantage!

Boot Weather was about a little girl who out her winter boots on and did more then what the naked eye could see. She was climbing mountains and going through tunnels with her boots and yet still close to home.

He put his boots on and checked out the depth of puddles!

Of course writing is a daily thing.  To make it not seem like work we change up from paper, to the chalkboard or whiteboard.  He writes but his favorite thing is to erase.

 A little indoor fun included bowling and block building.  This intentional play is another thing he likes to do.   Normally he may play with his sisters but, I know he really enjoys when I sit down and directly play with him.

  My craft for the week was trying my hand at making a bean bag.  Now I'm not a professional so and because I couldn't find a needle and thread and I'm not a professional I used stitch witch.

Surprisingly it held up at least that day so I'm happy with that.  I made two and they were played with for a good couple hours.

I had to fit a little food art in the week somewhere.  So my food fun was with lunch.  One day his sandwich became the letter B!

Cheers, to another good week and bring on a new week of adventure, fun and learning! 

Week 2 letter B

The letter b made for a fun letter.  We were able to get outside and take advantage of some b focused activities as well as our indoor work to include computer time as well as worksheets, and crafts.

We made a boat this week using a paper plate, popsicle stick, toilet paper roll and a scrap of paper.

One of our sensory bins has more then enough beans for us to borrow some to glue to our big letter b.

Changed up our folder for a small white board to practice letters, numbers and shapes.

B is also for bubbles so I told him he could wash his trucks.  I filled up the sandbox with water and soap and let him loose.  

One one trucks clean you just move on to another one.

  A little bike ride to finish our b week off.

Along with our building for the week of boxes!

I chalk this up as practice for when it comes to robots and I need to use another object like metal.  We used all my review boxes ad two lids from shoe boxes.  He came out kind cute.  He was taller then my youngest kids so that made him impressive and I had my daughter make his face.

B was anything but boring.

Letter B at Preschool

  Although we just started last week we are on a new week with a new letter.  I am going to play it by ear as to when we stay on a new letter and when we move on.  We will also review if not daily weekly on what we have learned so far.


  Little man has been informally in and around school at home for a couple years so I expect him to pick up things quicker.


  He knows colors so we won't spend a lot of time on that but knows the names of shapes but maybe can't identify all of them; so we will work on those.

 His vocabulary is beyond his years so we will work on phonics and letter recognition.

This week will be fun as the letter B is plentiful in our home.

Tracing is the best way to learn! B is for butterfly.  Learning shapes along the way to make pictures is fun too.

  Adding pictures of b items to his little B book.  These are perfect for his hands and based on the pictures he can read it himself.

Even simple tasks such as scissor skills need to be taught.  This will be a more interesting challenge for me as he is left handed and all I can do is show him finger placement and wait till he finds a comfortable position.  For this activity though he kept changing his hands.  I don't know what that was all about.

  I think we will finish the week with letter B as there are plenty of things for us to do outside.  We have yet to take advantage of biking, playing ball, bouncing and badminton!