The Letter B

Week 2. The letter B.

Bee and Butterfly 

Our creative activity for the letter B is making bees and butterflies. Again this project required our preschoolers to practice cutting and gluing. Children are shown a pre made butterfly and bee but are not instructed while making their own. We let them use their creativity and imagination to piece the project together. I found this activity on Pinterest. At this link http://www.pinterest.com/pin/151363237446563585/ and this link, http://www.pinterest.com/pin/476537204291063793/

*Instead of using paper to create the eyes on the bumblebee we instead used googly eyes. Our kids really enjoy placing those on their projects. For the lower case b we used tissue paper to create the colors on the butterfly's wings. The students enjoyed the different colors they were able to glue onto their butterfly.



This activity required

-glue
-scissors
-pre outlined capital letter B 
-pre outlined lower case letter b
-pre outlined wings and black 
-pre outlined antennas
-tissue paper variety of colors
-googly eyes

We pre-cut the middle out both of the middles of each letter.

B is for Button and Beans 

This activity is an additional craft activity for the letter B. In this activity we gave students a page size letter B. We had students fill in the capital letter B with both beans and buttons. This is an example from I pulled from Pinterest. http://mineforthemaking.com/2011/08/preschool-at-home-letter-b.html



This activity required

-glue
-assorted buttons
-beans
-pre printed capital letter B


Bear Cave

Our students were asked to bring in their favorite bear. While their favorite bear "attended" preschool, they were put into a bear cave. The bear cave was made out of a large cardboard box. (I believe a outdoor grill box) the one side of the box was cut to form an opening so the children could put their bears in the cave. Although I do not have a picture of OUR bear cave I did find a bear cave that is very similar to one I found on Pinterest.



Bear Sort 

We have an assortment of different colored small plastic bears. We used these bears to ask children to sort the bears based on color. We assisted in saying, "Please put all the orange/blue/green/etc bears in this pile." And continued on for other colors. 



These are the bears that we have in our classroom. 

Alphabet Soup

The same as letter A. We had a letter can that contained pictures of objects that start with the letter b. This can was shared at center time with the help of our student of the day.

Letter Trace Paper

Same as the letter A, tracer papers are also made for the letter b.