‘‘Buzzzzzzz’’ Goes the Bee!
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Rationale: A student must recognize phonemes in spoken words before they can
match letters to phonemes. This lesson’s focus is on the letter /b/. Students
will understand representation of the letter /b/ after completing this lesson.
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Materials:
Primary Paper
The Honey Bee and the Robber
by Eric Carle
Pencils
Crayons
Class set of laminated bees
http://www.coloring.ws/bumblebee1.htm
Worksheet for assessment
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/alphabet/circlewordsthatstartwith/b.shtml
- Procedures:
1.
‘‘Today, we are going to focus on the mouth move /b/. With practice, you will
find /b/ in lots of words.’’
2.Have you ever dribbled a basketball? The sound it makes sounds sort of like
b-b-b-b.’’ Dribble a pretend ball against the floor for the students. ‘‘Do you
hear the b-b-b-b sound?’’ Say the phoneme sound /b/. Ask the students, ‘‘How
does it feel to say /b/? When we say /b/ our lips push together and let out a
puff of air. A word that has the /b/ sound is the word ball. Stretch the
/b/ sound so you can hear the /b/ dribble in ball. B-b-b-b-ball.’’
3.
Now let’s try our tongue twister on the chart. I’m going to say it once for you
and then I want you to say it two more times with me. The bear brings bundles of
branches to Bobby. Repeat twice with group. Great Job! Now lets say the
tongue twister one more time and sound out those dribbling b’s each time it
begins a word. The bbbbbbear bbbbrings bbbbundles of bbbbranches to Bbbbbobby.
Good! This time let’s separate the /b/ from the beginning of each word that
begins with /b/. /b/ ear /b/ rings /b/ undles
/b/ ranches /b/ obby
4.
‘‘Take out your pencils and (primary) paper. Now that we’ve learned what the
letter B sounds like, we are going to write the letter on our paper.
Demonstrate on the board and talk the students through the steps. To write
the uppercase B we start at the rooftop and draw straight down to the sidewalk,
around for his big chest, and around for his big tummy. For lowercase b, start
at the roof, go down, b-b-bounce up and around. Once everyone has drawn your Bb,
I am going to come around and see and put a stampon your paper. Once I put a
stamp on your paper, I want you to write Bb across the next few lines 4 more
times.’’
5. ‘‘Listen for /b/ in the words that
I am going to call out. Tell me which word has the /b/ in it. When I say a word
that you hear the /b/ sound, everyone needs to hold up their picture of the bee.
For example, when I say grab and car, I hear /b/ in grab, so hold
up the bee when I say gab. Do you hear /b/ in black or white? Cat or bat? Tab
or tar? Now I want you to clap
to show me when you hear /b/ in a word I say or see the mouth move /b/. I am
going to say each word slowly and pause. If you heard /b/ in the word, I want
you to clap twice, if you don’t hear /b/, I want you to keep your hands still
together. Blaze the bear bakes cakes for the birthday party..
6.
Read The Honeybee and the Robber by Eric Carle with the class. ‘‘Today we
are going to read a book about a honeybee and the robber. Let’s read this book
and see if a honeybee really gets robbed!’’ Talk about the story with the
students. Read the story again, and have students hold up their bees when they
hear a word with /b/. List the words on the board. Have the students write a
message about what they would feed a beast. Encourage them to draw a picture and
use invented spellings.
7.
To assess the children’s knowledge of /b/, give them the picture page and ask
them to circle the pictures that begin with /b/ with their crayon. Tell them to
write a b above each picture that they circled. You can also refer back
to their letter writing in #4 and their clapping responses in #5. If children
are still having problems with /b/ and writing the letter Bb, then they can be
given extra instruction.
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References:
The Honeybee and the Robber by Eric Carle. Philomel
Books. (1991).
McGill, Leslie.
Sid the Silly Slow Sloth. Auburn University. 2004.
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/guides/mcgillel.html
Jackson, Marie.
Bouncing Basketballs! Auburn University.
2005.http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/connect/jacksonel.html
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