Highlights from "B" Week

Learning Along the Alphabet Path

~ Letter Formation ~

Letter B out of Modeling Wax

They also made a darling Basket of Blueberries!

Hidden Letter Worksheet 

Decorated a Letter B with Things that start with "B"

(The boys didn't want to miss out on the fun!)

~ Bugle Flower Coloring Pages ~

From this Coloring Book (while listening to this CD!)

~ Picture Book Science :: B is for Birds ~

The Best Nest
Have You Seen My Duckling?
Owl Babies
Owl Moon
Gulls...gulls...gulls
Soaring with the Wind: The Bald Eagle
Make Way for Ducklings
Our Yard Is Full of Birds
A Nest Full of Eggs (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1)
A First Look at Bird Nests
Wild Birds

Reading Rainbow: Birds of a Feather DVD

Our favorite ABC Bird Picture Books:
The Bird Alphabet Book 
Roger Tory Peterson's ABC's Birds: A Book for Little Birdwatchers

What are the parts of a bird? Worksheet and Exotic Birds Toob

Bird Dot-to-Dot and Bird ABC Dot-to-Dot

~ Picture Study :: Thomas Eakins' The Champion Single Sculls ~

From Museum ABC
I also was excited to find/order these Museum ABC Nesting Blocks 

to add to the ABC picture study!

~ B is for St. Bernadette ~

An Alphabet of Catholic Saints 

(I decided to paint an Alphabet of Saints, instead of making them out of felt, last year.  I posted about them here.  My children have really enjoyed playing with all of our little wooden saints, even though I ended up having to postpone the Alphabet Path till this year!)

St. Bernadette Coloring Page

We took a little virtual pilgrimage to the grotto and walked in the footsteps of St. Bernadetteand then watched a couple of our favorite movies about St. Bernadette: Bernadette: The Princess of Lourdes and The Song of Bernadette.

~ B is also for Bible and St. Brendan ~

A Is for Altar, B Is for Bible
Letters from Heaven: An Illuminated Alphabet
Saint Brendan And The Voyage Before Columbus

~ B is for Blankets ~
(They even have Bumblebees and Birds on them!)

We weren't able to make Chiquita's blanket until Saturday morning:

The girls LOVE their new blankets!

~ B is for Blueberries ~

Blueberries for Sal
Peter in Blueberry Land
Blueberry Pie Elf

(I have to add that I was so, SO, SOOOO very excited to see that they printed a "facsimile edition" of the old version of the Blueberry Pie Elf and I immediately ordered a copy!  I already owned a copy of this version, which I purchased at a used book sale, but the illustrations just didn't compare...  I have such wonderful memories of my dad reading this story to me as a child and the illustrations in this book bring back those memories so clearly!)

Blueberry Matching Cards

BlueBerry Faces for Breakfast

Blue Banana Boats
(here's the recipe )

and Blueberry-Strawberry Cobbler!

And "B" Week just wouldn't be complete without a Birthday Celebration, or TWO !!