We’re on letter B in our Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Letter Series. For our Letter B post from last year, which includes sensory ideas and set-up for an intro to the letter B click here: Letter B. And for my FREE hand-drawn letter B Printables click here: Letter B Printables. If this is the first time you’ve been to Happy and Blessed Home, make sure to check out our FREE Letter A Printables from last week too.
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If you have a preschooler who knows their ABCs and who has expressed an interest in reading, this series of posts will be perfect for you. Subscribers and Facebook Fans will have access to the FREE printables I am creating in regards to the series. To get your FREE printables, please go to my Happy and Blessed Home facebook page and “Like” it. On my page you’ll see a thumbs up symbol with the title “Only Likers”. Click on it and if you’ve already liked my page you’ll see text that includes a web address that you can paste into your browser for the FREE Letter B Printables. There are at least 28 different activities for your preschooler in this bundle. Activities include things like a “bee” and “button” craft, a lace-up soccer ball, 20 flashcards with pictures using short letter “B” words, sight words, coloring, tracing, do-a-dot, and so much more! I spent about four hours putting these together so I think you’ll truly enjoy them!
This post on our Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Letter B is our second letter into “reading” territory. If you would like to assess your preschooler’s readiness in the area of reading, I have a free chart in my post, Advancing Preschool Reading Behaviors.
I spent some time on Pinterest looking for things that might be good for our letter B activities this week. I pinned everything that looked interesting. My goal is to create a board for each letter of the alphabet. Follow me on Pinterest if you want to get copied on all the resources and ideas that I discover via Pinterest.
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Preparing for Kindergarten Series - insight from the book, “Skills for Preschool Teachers”
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Preschool Morning Board Series - an easy visual system to teach basic skills
Montessori Planning Post - with labels, organizational charts & more
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Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Letter B
This week we started our letter B study with a craft. The artwork is included in the downloadable package and I just used a few art supplies that we already had on hand to decorate. We used pipe cleaners for the antenna, glitter glue for the sparkle and google eyes for the eyes.
The “bee” craft is super easy. You just print out the bee onto yellow construction paper and cut out the body and wings. Have the child glue the body and wings to a piece of paper and decorate. Here you can see my 20-month old got in on our craft. Mr. Bee suffered a slight injury when my son tore the construction paper – but it was easy to fix with a little glue.
A heavy emphasis is being placed on reading in our preschool at home efforts this fall. So I checked at our local library and they have some wonderful books for preschoolers and they color code the books based upon the level of reading required to read the book.
If you’re looking for books for an emergent reader you may want to try:
Biscuit (My First I Can Read)
by Capucilli and Schories – Biscuit is a yellow puppy who would rather play than go to bed. Will Biscuit ever go to sleep?
Boats (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)
by Corey and Reed – A delightful book about all kinds of boats.
In My Backyard (Rookie Ready to Learn)
by Curry and Brown – My boys love the outdoors and our backyard so this story kept their attention.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
by Carle – A children’s classic. See my FREE Printables to create your very own Brown Bear Book Box at home.
Belly Button Book
by Boynton – A fun and lighthearted look at belly buttons through the eyes of a hippopotamus.
In my downloadable FREE printables you’ll find flashcards for 20 words with pictures as well as sight words for your preschooler. For information about what sight words are appropriate for pre-K, kindergarten and up through grade 3, please see my post, sight words.
We start our preschool day with our preschool Morning Board. You can follow the links to access about half of the printables online for FREE. The other half are for subscribers only and as a subscriber you have many of the morning board printables at the bottom of your RSS feed. Click the links for the printables. For a complete list of our morning board printables click here: Morning Board.
To supplement our letter B activities for the week, I also use God’s Little Explorers. Our letter B coincides with week 17 in GLE. In God’s Little Explorer’s the bible story for the week of letter B study is the story of Jesus calming the storm; from Matthew chapter 14. My favorite activity (used to emphasize the story) is one where you make boats out of aluminum foil and place them in the bathtub. Test different shapes to see which floats best. Try adding objects to the boats to see which sinks last. Stacie has some wonderful ideas. Click here to learn more about God’s Little Explorers.
I’ve created a Learn to Read Letter B Preschool activity pack with an emphasis on vocabulary, reading and fine and gross motor activity. The FREE pack includes 28 activities for preschoolers (54 pages):
7 Coloring Pages
6 Tracing Pages
Button Craft
Bee Craft
Ball lace-up card
Cutting Practice
Align and Count
20 Flashcards with short words that start in “b” with pictures
Hop-to or Wall-ID Game, The game works just like the “jumping beans” featured in this post: Letter J
Bees in the Bee Hive Game with words and numbers
4 Do-a-dot Pages
Flashcards with letter “B” sight words – focus on the shorter words first
We laced up our letter “B” soccer ball lace up card.
We used a q-tip and glue to align and count our letter “B” words.
We reviewed flashcards, traced the path for our letter “B” words, and learned how to use our Bees in the Bee-Hive game.
As I mentioned there are at least 28 activities in the FREE Letter B download from liking my Facebook Page. Subscribers – just to make it easy for you, I’ve included a link in your subscription feed too.
In addition, this week you will find my Christmas Fun for Preschoolers Activity Pack inside a wonderful bundle of inspiring eBooks, kid’s activities, recipes, planners and more to help you get ready for the holidays. To learn more about the Inspired Holiday Bundle, please click the image below.
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