The letter B

These are videos about the letter B and a review of the books we borrow this week.







The Berenstains' B Book
A cute and silly book which started really easy enough for Sean to read on his own. Halfway the words became more challenging though, so I have to read it out to him. He's managed to read up to " Big brown bear, blue bull, beautiful baboon blowing bubbles biking backwards, bump black bug's banana boxes...." He still has difficulty with 'biking' and 'black', but he loves it. It's usually his first choice from this week's library borrowings.




Bear's Adventure
A lovely story about what happened to a teddy bear who was washed out by the wave, floated in the sea, caught in a fishing net, picked up by a seagull, dropped off into the sea again, and then washed off ashore, and finally found by familiar hands.





Busy Beavers
A great poem about what beavers do. I love the illustrations, they are so accurate that when I show Sean a YouTube video about beavers he can immediately associate it with the beavers in the book. In fact, he was wondering why there was no wolf in the YouTube videos.... he he he.. He really thought the book and the video was the same.








Bartholomew and the Bug
A wonderful story about Bartholomew the Grizzly bear and bugs. It's about how Bartholomew help a bug visit the bright lights of the city so that he can party for the only day which he lived. We learn that Daddy-Long-Legs only live one or two days at most.



The video is about bears catching salmon. This is one of my favorite.








Big Bully Hippo
A story about good manners. Hippo was a big bully who finally learn to say 'please', 'thank you' and 'I'm sorry' and became a perfectly polite hippo.










Billy's Beetle
A really cute story about a boy asking others to help him find his beetle, when all along the beetle was on them. The beetle is so small that Sean had a lot of fun looking for the beetle which moves from one character to another in each page.








Bread Bread Bread
Lots of great pictures about what type of bread people from all over the world eat. It's a great reference book. I love it.


The video is about a tour of a famous bakery, to see how breads are made.










Inch by Inch
A little inch worm outsmart birds by inching his way out of danger. A great way to introduce the measurement of inch. I showed Sean the ruler and got him to count. I think I'm going to get him to measure things when he wakes up from his nap.







Not a story about B, but it's lovely story about a small house by the sea and the animals who live in it.