Balls

This week is all about the letter B!  We could spend a month on this letter.  There is so much you can do. Yesterday we spent the afternoon outside playing with all different kinds of balls!  Set up the yard in stations and let your children play!  Great Gross Motor Activity!  Baseball, basketball, golf ball, kick ball, big ball, little ball, bowling ball, bouncy ball, beach ball, soccer ball, and the list goes on.  Who doesn’t have balls around the house?  I am thinking a great language activity would be to fill a bag full of different kinds of balls.  Have your children reach inside, take one out, name it, talk about what you do with it, describe it.  You have just worked on naming, object functions, verbs, associations (what goes with a baseball—a bat, etc) and concepts (big/little, heavy/light)!  Add in some Wh-questions and you have a great language lesson.  What do you do with a basketball?  Where do you play with a beach ball?  Who likes to golf?  Why don’t we throw a bowling ball?  Here are my girls in action.  You can’t even tell that one of them is sick.