BFIAR: The ABC Bunny

Our next book to row was The ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag. (We did this during the week of April 18, and left for Abilene to see the Zavaletas on Friday, so it was a short week.)  It was a really cute story!  I've read a lot of alphabet books that find an object for each letter.  But this one actually had a plot.

Our companion books were about the alphabet and weather:

• The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature by Stan and Jan Berenstain
• The Z That Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg
• If Frogs Made Weather by Marion Dane Bauer
• Mr. Bear to the Rescue by Debi Gliori 

I found the cutest ABC exercise cards to start us off! Joshua had a lot of fun doing exercises for each letter of the alphabet. I plan to laminate these cards and use them often... PE with a purpose!

Then we talked about order and how God says there is an order for everything (1 Corinthians 14:40). I showed Joshua he has to put his underwear on before his shorts and socks before his shoes or else it looks funny.  He thought doing it wrong was hilarious!

He put together his Eric Carle alphabet floor puzzle.

We watched a video of the song from the back of the book.

It took quite a while, but we found an object from around the house for every letter in the alphabet.  Joshua did the first ten or so by himself, but needed a lot of help to finish.  Instead of thinking about an object that started with a certain letter, he wanted to use everything he saw.

We talked about weather using the Berenstain Bears' book, especially wind and hail because it was mentioned in our book.

We did an alphabet activity gluing the words from the book to their corresponding letters.

And we also played a fun dice game to "Build a Bunny."  Joshua loved this and I wish we had more time to play.

It was a really great week and we got a lot accomplished. And then life got crazy!! I hope to get back on track and finish six more BFIAR books this summer and the rest in the fall. I'm praying as Anchor gets older, he will also get easier.