Preschool: B is for Bubble Bear

I watch Gabe and Kira on Tuesdays for almost two hours. We had preschool during their time here. But first, they wanted snacks.
Then we went over Humpty Dumpty. Kira and Gabe haven't done Humpty Dumpty before, so it was fun going over it. The main reason why my kids are familiar with nursery rhymes is because of story time at the library.

Then we read Bubble Bear out of the AlphaTales book. After that I wanted them to turn their capital B's into bears. Kira really wanted a bunny instead.

It ended up just having fun with glue.

Then to get everyone familiar with the lowercase b we turned them into boats.

Gabe loved gluing but the bottle was running out and he had a hard time with that. I love his facial expression.

Robert went crazy over gluing! It must be a boy thing.

So here is my example.

While we were doing this, I thought of another way to make a lowercase b with a baseball theme. I tried my hardest to get the ball to touch the bat to look like a b but it was too difficult. Anyways you get the idea.

AlphaTales: Bubble Bear

We read B is for Bubble Bear out of our AlphaTales book. Then I tried to have them turn the letter B into a bear. Then they couple punch out "bubble" circles.

Robert really likes gluing.

Preschool School: B for Birds and Bats

Today for preschool we focused on bats and birds. So we read "Stellaluna". It's kind of a long book but both girls enjoys books and so they sat through it.

Then we made bat puppets. Audrey did great and only needed help with the wings and eyes. Hailey wanted a little more hands on help and Robert just tore everything that that I put together for him.
Then we made birds. The kids were able to color their wings with stamps, while I cut out the bodies for it. They had a lot of fun stamping and also got it on the table a little. Hailey also got some on her mouth by not paying attention to what she was doing.

They got a blast out of flying them when they were done.

Robert, however, tore him up within the first five minutes.

This lesson surprisingly took 55 minutes. So afterwards they played outside.

B is for Butterfly (Part 2)

Today we did the second half of the "B" activities. First, I pointed out that black and blue start with the letter B and she colored the paper with those markers.

Hailey loves markers and gets very messy with them. She has a black stripe down her arm (that you can't see) from popping the lid off.

Here's my happy boy being patient with mommy as she does Hailey School.
Next we talked about butterfly and beans. She would point to which color bean she wants and where she wants to put the bean and I put a drop of glue there. For the beans, I got a bag of mixed beans (15 different types of beans) and separated them into there own bags.
Here is her finished picture.

We then read "From Egg to Butterfly" by Shannon Zemlicka and "See how they grow: Butterfly" from DK which we got from the library. I wanted "Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle but it was checked out.

To finish school, I tried to do bubbles, but Hailey kept trying to grab them and was very fussy at the end.

*Side note: Hailey would not take her nap today (she cried in her crib for an hour and a half) so she was very upset when she didn't get her way.

B is for Books and Bees

Today since Robert was still napping, we started reading books that have a lot of "b" words in them. I have a collection of Alphabooks by Baby Einstein that has 26 books, one for each letter, each book being three pages long. I introduce things that start with a certain letter using that book.

Then we read Stellaluna by Janell Cannon which talks about a baby bat and birds. Following that we read Berenstain Bears' New Baby with has bears, bed, baby, and brother.
For our craft we turned the letter B into a bee. Idea is from http://notimeforflashcards.com/

Materials: yellow and black paper, yellow paint, scissors, glue

Skills: holding a paint brush, picking up small pieces of paper, and cutting black stripes (I did that one)

A good follow up book is "Buzz-Buzz, Busy Bees: An animal sounds book" from the creators of Good Night, Sweet Butterflies. We ran out of time to read this book.