Letter of the Week Theme: B is for Beach
Next up in our letter of the week preschool plan: B is for Beach. Find the complete A-Z outline on the letter of the week preschool plan page. Each week explores a new weekly focus on letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and a theme.
Read A is for Animals to start at the very beginning! Exposure to a variety of words, concepts, and information is our goal, not insistence on your child doing it “right.”
Print the one-page Preschool Weekly Focus and fit in activities throughout the week. Have FUN with your kiddos!
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Preschool Plan Weekly Focus Areas
Letter of the Week = B
Theme of the Week = Beach
Number of the Week = 2
Color of the Week = Yellow
Shape of the Week = Circle
Letter Activities
- Identify the letter B: look for B in books and on signs
- Color, stamp, or decorate the letter B (download a free printable HERE)
- Practice writing the letter B (download a free printable for letters A and B HERE)
- Use fingers to trace the letter B on a cookie sheet covered with salt
- Go on a letter sound hunt around the house (look for items that start with the letter of the week)
- Look at a picture dictionary and talk about words that start with B
- Letter B activity at www.starfall.com
Number Activities
- Identify the number 2 (what do you have 2 of?)
- Practice writing the number 2 (download a free printable for numbers 1 and 2 HERE)
- Number sticker book – add stickers corresponding to the number of the week (download the free printable HERE)
- Talk about the way we use 2 sounds that they will recognize (beep-beep, choo-choo, honk-honk, gobble-gobble, woof-woof)
- Counting to 10 Preschool Beach Theme video
SHAPE AND COLOR ACTIVITIES
- Go on a shape hunt around the house, outside or in books
- Practice drawing and coloring circles (download a free printable HERE)
- Use a yellow crayon to trace and color this week
- Talk about things that are yellow
Letter “B” and Beach Theme Activities
- Play with beach balls
- Sit on beach towels or beach chairs for storytime (bonus for an umbrella and sunglasses!)
- Sing You Are My Sunshine
- Dive under the ocean: hide plastic sea creatures under a sheet and have your child “dive” under to find one at a time, then discuss them. You can ask them to find specific creatures, or let them choose. Print out pictures of sea creatures for them to find if you don’t have any plastic toys. Look up information about what they eat, where they live, and pictures (Google is your friend!)
- Make a sensory bin using cornmeal and hide plastic creatures for your child to find and play with in the “sand”
- Work on helping your child learn their birthday
- Bear crawls
- Blow bubbles
- “Balance beam” walking (use a wood floor or tape paper down, approximately 4-inch width)
- Play a bean bag game
- Baking together (brownies, blueberry muffins, banana bread)
Items You Might Use this Week
Letter “B” and Beach Theme Books
- At the Beach by Anne Rockwell
- Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
- Stan and Jan Berenstain’s “Berenstain Bears” series, including “Berenstain Bears Go on Vacation“
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle
- Curious George Goes to the Beach by Margaret & H.A. Rey
- Not the Piano, Mrs. Medley! by Evan Levine (We did a YouTube video read-aloud for this one. You can view it HERE.)
Arts & Crafts
- Beach sand art: Find a great tutorial for this at Smart and Snazzy Kids
- Cupcake liner fish from Fun Family Crafts
- Letter B bear craft from Rowdy in Room 300
Letter “B” Snack and Food Ideas
- bacon
- bagel
- banana
- beans
- bread
Use a set of cookie cutters to cut letter shapes from foods, like a B from a slice of bread this week! Or let your child form the letter using slices of banana, or individual beans.
Letter “B” Field Trip Ideas
- bakery
- beach
- birdwatching
- bowling
**You may need to try a virtual field trip at this point in time. Here are a few possibilities:
Beach Field Trip/New Words (YouTube – KidVision): Super short video of beach environment and introduction to words associated with the beach perfect for preschool age children.
All About Birds for Children (YouTube – Free School)
Use empty 2-liter soda bottles as bowling pins and set up your own bowling game for your preschooler. Grab a beach ball, a tennis ball, or anything in between and let them bowl!
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Preschool-on-a-page: B is for Beach
This one-page plan lists all the ideas we covered for letter, number, shape, color, and animal activities for the week. Intentionally engage with your child and more than anything READ, READ, READ with them.
Preschool Learning Plan
All 26 weeks provide activities promoting letter, number, shape, and color recognition and formation. In addition, you’ll do projects and play games to develop fine and gross motor skills, encourage imagination, and learn new concepts. Your child will learn songs, play games, and work on tasks that require multi-step instructions.
It would be impossible to list all the book options for each weekly letter and theme. The recommended reading selections are comprised of both “newer” books and award-winning, classic works to expose your child to a variety of authors and well-known titles. Feel free to add to the suggested titles as desired and make your own choices based on your preferences or availability of material.
Visit my Preschool Letter-of-the-Week Page to find the complete list of A-Z weekly themes
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