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Showing posts with label Letter B. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Letter B. Show all posts

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

For our letter B week I had lots of activities planned but we didn't get to alot of them. I am figuring with the way Drew is participating lately we will be revisiting all these letters again anyway so I might as well save a few ideas for later. We have moved some of our learning time to the mornings so Brodie can participate too. I think he was starting to feel a little left out and he really loves reading and doing crafts.

Our main theme for the week was Brown Bear, Brown Bear. The kids have always loved this book and it is picked frequently to read. I planned alot of our activities around this book. I made this great Tot book last year. You can find all the downloads for it here. Drew really enjoyed this. He is very much a hands on kid.We did sequencing with these bears.We painted an upper case B on the easel. Another favorite activity we did was this. I placed number cards on the floor in front of him. He would tell me the number and then place the appropriate amount of bear cookies on each card. At the end he got to eat them. He loved it.We made these cute teddy bears. I used a brad to attach the head so that it could move. Drew's is on the left, Brodie's on the right. Drew was really insistent on cutting out his own bear. And he is always wanting me to help him color, so I colored the head.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Butterfly Wall

Now that the big boys are back in school I am trying to get the little boys back into a routine as well. We are working on the letter "B" this week. We are learning about butterflies. We made this fun craft and replaced the scene on our wall. I loved the watercolor flowers but it was time for a change! I used this template here for the butterflies. We painted them with watercolor paints. For the tree I just taped 4 pieces of green construction paper together and cut out the tree. So the kids could be involved, I gave them green markers to draw leaves on it. I cut the trunk out and did the same, giving them brown markers to color it making it look like bark.
Linked to Showcase Friday at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.