Letter Bb | The Runaway Bunny

Last week we began our study of the Letter Bb and the book the Runaway Bunny.

The Runaway Bunny

 by Margaret Wise Brown

The book is about a little that tells his mother he wants to runaway, but mother bunny assures him no matter where he runs, she will be there.

 Inside of the lapbooks have printables from the story.
I cut bunnies and carrots with my Cricut for counting and name recognition fun.

 Here, cut and paste we used to match pictures from the story.

Cut and paste things that start with the Letter B.

Do a Dot page

Pre-Writing practice

 Butterfly Craft Snack

Letter B Lacing

I cut with my Cricut and laminated

Resources: 

Homeschool Share

Homeschool Creations

Lori

Spring Bird Unit

Today we began our "Bird Unit" by reading the book Beaky. Love this book and it kept the children very engaged.

Beaky

by: Jez Alborough

An egg tumbled to the rain forest floor and out popped Beaky! He was uncertain of what kind of creature he was but very determined to find out.

After reading Beaky went over our lap book and then began the unit curriculum.

Learning Warm Colors. Color the bird house Red, Yellow, and Orange. 

 Learning Cool Colors. Color the bird house Blue, Purple, and Green.

 Coloring the Letter Bb

Although we completed our Letter Bb, I consider this reinforcing this letter. 

 Pre-writing tracing the letter Bb

Count the leaves on the tree and circle the correct number in the box.

Bird Unit found here and here.

Spring Theme | Bird Unit

This week we have finally begun our Spring Unit. We are beginning with Birds.

 On the left and right of the lap book are pictures of things about birds.

 Here is a bird color book. Each page is to color the bird a certain color.

 Here the children had a cut and paste to separate birds from the bird houses.

Pre-writing, Help the birds find their homes. I laminated these so they could reuse.

I made them a "Our Backyard Birds" book that we read and will identify as we see them in our yard or neighborhood.

And that was our day, thanks for visiting us!
Lori

Unit from Here

Dinner at the Panda Palace | Letter Bb week + Product Review

I love this book! I purchased this book over the weekend for $1.50 at an antique store along with several others. I couldn't get over the reasonable prices there, I was so excited!

This book is a counting book from 1-10, about a panda bear who has to make room for several patrons at his restaurant. The children loved it! And so did I.

Before I show you our craft for today, I want to tell you about a product I was contacted to review. 

Craft Project Ideas contacted me to do a review on their Kids Crafts products that are available at 

Wal-Mart. It's from their Rainy Day Survival Kits.

Here are the products we are reviewing below...

The Ultimate Fuzzy Kit-Included 300 pieces, pom poms large and small, glitter poms, googly eyes, fuzzy sticks, glitter sticks,and wild animal fuzzy sticks.

Six pack of brightly colored washable finger paints.

Today we used the blue and red finger paint mixed together to make purple.

Googly eyes

Large pom poms

Items from home used

Card stock cut in different sized circles

tacky glue

scissors

marker

clothes pins

Panda Bear Craft

Here we gathered the supplies and placed in the center of the table. Notice the green fuzzy sticks, we didn't use. Didn't have enough room.

We used the clothes pins to clip the pom poms on and used as paint brush. 

They began by painting the panda's ears.

Good and messy fun!

Super cute! They added all their pieces, googly eyes, and drew a mouth after it dried.

Now what do I have to say about their products. Well I have used their craft supplies before and have always love them. They are reasonable priced, that's number one when searching for craft supplies like I do having a daycare. We go through supplies like crazy. They are good quality and I have never had a problem with them. 

The finger paints are washable as stated. They washed right off the children's hands at clean up time. The package they sent to us was a sample package. We use all of the red and blue containers. But I will keep those two containers, they will come in handy for something. I believe in recycling! 

Now stay tuned I will be having a giveaway real soon! My first anniversary for my blog will be here soon, so I though it would be nice to have a giveaway!  

Disclaimer: I received these products from CraftProjectsIdeas.com for free for trying their products out for the purpose of this review.  This review is my honest opinion of this product and I was not paid for this review or my opinion.   

• Read here about our Letter Bb Bear 5 A Day Books post here
• Letter Bb | Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?
• Bear Sensory/Discovery Bin
• Letter Bb | We're Going On A Bear Hunt

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We're Going On A Bear Hunt | Letter Bb Week

I read the book 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen and when I heard the children say "AGAIN, "AGAIN"! This is what I did, I showed them a video of the author telling the story which I knew they would love. I posted it below.

At first they looked at the video strange, then they started laughing, never taking their eyes off of him! LOL

After the video I asked them if they would like to go on a bear hunt, and they replied "YES!"

I made twenty of these teddy bears the night before out of cardstock, drew the faces, numbered, laminated. The next morning I went outside and hid them around the yard.

Not in very hard spots.

She found a few.




When we went back inside we played a matching the bear game with his family.

They would match the colors as we sang a tune.

Example: Brown Bear, Brown Brown where's your family? repeat

or Yellow Bear, Yellow Bear where's your family? repeat

Some kids would place their bear down with it's family right away. One child would do a dance, turn around and then place his bear down. This was really a fun, fun game!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lori

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Letter Bb Week | Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?

This week we are on the Letter Bb and we are focusing on bears.

We started by reading the book 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?'
The book is about a variety of different colored animals and a teacher looking at them. 
This has to be one of the favorite of books here! After I'm finished reading the book I hear "AGAIN!, AGAIN!" 

After reading the book they made a B is for bear craft. 

This craft will go in their ABC Binders

Note: the 4 yr.old said the bear looks like a beaver! LOL

Then they began to work in their lap books.

 This is the lap book for the tots. Not much different from the one below, except they do not have a tracer sheet yet. To the left is a list of bears I googled and printed. The right side is a short list of what bears eat.
The Bb bear sheet came from First School. 

This is the three and four year olds lap book.

 Here I found a Brown Bear 'Coloring Animals' book from 1+1+1=1, cute book huh?!

Also in their lap books is a

Teddy Bear Rhyme:

Teddy bear, teddy bear turn around.
Teddy bear, teddy bear touch the ground.
Teddy bear, teddy bear find your nose.
Teddy bear, teddy bear wiggle your toes.
Teddy bear, teddy bear jump up now.
Teddy bear, teddy bear take a bow.
Teddy bear, teddy bear slap your knees.
Teddy bear, teddy bear sit down please.

Love it!

And finally for today they colored a bear page from Kids Soup. It's a free color sheet, so go grab one!

Thanks for stopping by!
Lori