State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will make a birthday cake for Buzz the Bear and will practice saying the /b/ sound in words that start with the letter B, such as big, berry, butter, birthday, and bear.
 
Literacy Activities
Find ingredients for Buzz's birthday cake

• Place the picture cards around the room.
• Write the uppercase letter B and lowercase letter b on the whiteboard, and point out that the letter B makes the /b/ sound.
• Explain to the children that it is Buzz the Bear's birthday and that he wants a cake made with only ingredients that start with the letter B. 
• Tell the children that they need to find those ingredients (the picture cards), which are hidden around the room.
• Have the children find the pictures and help them decide whether or not each word starts with B as in bear.
• When the children find a word that begins with the /b/ sound, ask them to say, “The letter B says /b/,” and have them circle the letter B in the word on the card.
• Ask the children what other words they can think of that start with the /b/ sound, write them on the board, and have the children circle the B or b in their word.

Beat the batter

• Let the children put the picture cards in the bowl and tell them they can pretend that the cards are cake batter.
• Allow the children to take turns beating the batter, then pretend to bake it.
• Have the children pretend to feed Buzz the Bear the baked birthday batter.

More Practice
Read target words in a text

• Display the Buzz’s Birthday Batter target text so that all of the children can see it.
• Read the text as a group.
• Have the children underline the letter B throughout the text and have them say the /b/ sound each time they underline the letter B.

Writing the target letter

• Create a hopscotch-like game by drawing bubbles in a hopscotch formation on a large piece of paper or by taping circles of paper on the floor.
• Invite the children to write a B and b on each bubble.
• Have the children say the /b/ sound as they bounce from bubble to bubble.