State the Objective 

Tell the children that they will feed brown bugs to a baby black bat and listen for /b/ in words such as bat, bug, big, bag, and brown.

Literacy Activities

Bring the baby black bat big bugs

• Draw a simple bat with a big mouth at the bottom of a piece of paper (example below)
• Cut out the bat’s mouth and fold the paper so it stands up.
• Show the children the baby black bat and say that he likes to eat big brown bugs.
• Read the Bugs for Baby Black Bat text (see below) to the children.
• Let the children find the Bs in the text. 

Feed bugs to the baby bat

• Have the children write the letter B on small pieces of paper.
• Show the children how B can become a bug by drawing antennae and legs (see example below). 
• Let the children follow your example and turn all the Bs into “bugs.” 
• Have the children say, “/b/, /b/, a big bug for Baby Bat!” as they “feed” the bugs to Baby Black Bat.