The Alphabet: "B" -- 1/11/22

Join us weekly on Tuesdays for an online Story Time featuring books read by Miss Amy.  The video will be available to view for a week before a new online is uploaded.

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Birds by Kevin Henkes
Where Is Bear? by Jonathan Bentley

Books: 

Baby Bedtime by Mem Fox
Bears in the Bath by Shirley Parenteau

Big Bad Bubble by Adam Rubin

The Button Book by Sally Nicholls

Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Maryann Kovalski

Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert
Where Is My Balloon? by Ariel Bernstein

Craft: B Is for Butterfly

- Draw a letter "B" on heavy paper or cardstock and cut out.  (Do not cut out the centers of the B.)

- Glue the B's back to back to make butterfly wings and color.

- Cut out a long oval for butterfly's body.  Color.

- Glue body to center of wings.

Extension Activities:

- Enjoy a "B" snack -- Bugs on a Bed.  Use a piece of toasted Bread for the bed.  Spread nut Butter on the bread for the sheets.  Then add Blueberries for the bugs.

- Make a drawing using only colors that start with the letter B -- brown, blue, black, etc.

Virtual Story Time: I Am Bear by Ben Bailey Smith -- 2/16/21

Join us weekly for an online story time featuring a book read by Miss Amy on Tuesdays at 10:00 am.  The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.

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I Am Bear by Ben Bailey Smith

Where Is Bear? by Jonathan Bentley

Books: (Bears)

A Bear and His Boy by Sean Bryan

The Bear Came Over to My House by Rick Walton

Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson

Bears on Chairs by Shirley Parenteau

More Bears by Karen Nesbitt

My Friend Bear by Jez Alborough

Old Bear by Kevin Henkes

There's a Bear in My Chair by Ross Collins

The Very Cranky Bear by Nick Bland

A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker

Craft: B Is for Bear

- Print template and cut out pieces

- Color pieces of bear

- Glue pieces together to make a bear  (Use picture as guide.)

Extension Activities:

- Practice letter recognition by asking your child to point to all the Bs as you read.  

- I Am Bear is all about rhyming words.  Play a rhyming game.  Go back and forth with your child to see how many rhyming words you can come up with.

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Building Blocks Nominees Story Time: Week 4: September 30-October 1, 2019

Books:
Hello Hello by Brendan Wenzel *
I Just Ate My Friend by Heidi McKinnon *
Where Is Bear? by Jonathan Bentley *

Craft: CD Teddy Bear
The kids colored cardstock cutouts of bear's head and paws before gluing to a used cd-rom.




Extension Activities:
- Hello Hello introduces aspects as animals throughout the book.  Ask your child to come up with their own "Hello's" based on the aspects they see in the illustrations.
- Play a game of hide and seek with the CD Teddy Bear craft you make.  Hide the teddy bear and see if your child can find it.

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