B is for Bicycling!

  Last week, I decided to take the challenge of blogging a different letter of the alphabet each week, hosted by Ben and Me.

 

Again, this a perfect opportunity for me to blog about our life from last fall.  I have all these super cool family fun adventures, homeschooling crafts, and day-to-day life activities just sitting in my Pictures Folder, patiently waiting to be shared.  

We love to take the girls down to the Greenway by the river with their bicycles.   It is such a wonderful way to spend a fall afternoon.

 

In addition, we took some time that weekend to help Izzie complete her American Heritage Girls' Cycling Badge. 

Be sure to ride over to Ben and Me to see other fun Letter B activities, crafts, fieldtrips, etc!

Storytime From A to Z: Letter B

This particular week at Coop, the Storytime From A to Z letter was "B" and the book was Big Red Barn. 

 

 The girls completed these adorable paper plate chickens!  

  

Here are a few more farm ideas from Pinterest!

Paper Plate Cow 

Paper Plate Pigs

Letter B

Since Izzie is practicing her "B" sounds this week, I decided to have her do some activities with buttons. First, I made a letter B for her and had her place buttons on it, while trying to say "button" each time (I need to add a button picture to the felt board).


Then, she sorted buttons by color. She gathered up all the buttons of the same color at the same time.
Finally, she organized the buttons by size (big and small) in different bowls.

Letter B

Izzie has a speech delay and has been in Speech Therapy for the last year. She has made some progress, but still isn't at age-level. I've been trying several different techniques with her and she seems to like the "flashcards" the best. However, she does get a little overwhelmed with the flashcards since there are several different sounds at one time, so I decided to focus on one letter each week. This week, we are going to focus on the Letter "B". Izzie has the most success with the letter B, so I thought this would be a good place to start. I printed off simple everyday picture cards and few more challenging ones for her to practice. Each day, we'll spend about 30 minutes repeating/attempting to repeat the different words. I placed the pictures on the felt board, so she has access to them throughout the day. She has been at the felt board several times today by herself...organizing the pictures and even pointing and identifying several of the pictures with words!!

Letter "B" Words Include:

• bow
• bus
• bone
• bye
• birthday
  
• bread
• boy
  
• bee
• baby
• brown
• big
  
• bed
• bat
• broken
• bunny
  
• bug
• blanket
• butterfly
• bean
• black
• bubbles
• book
• ball
• banana
• bear
• balloons
• bath
• bird
• boat
• blocks
• bike
• boot
• bowl
• boo boo