Week 5 - Letter O

As you probably guessed, our letter last week was O. 

The memory verse was Psalm 118:1 - "Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good."

Activities we did:

We ate an octopus for lunch one day and watched some YouTube videos about octopi.

Jenna's coloring page.  I was busy with Grant, so I wasn't there to remind her to color nicely and to try to stay in the lines.  She's not a big fan of coloring, so although she loves using the markers, she typically likes to get this page over with as soon as possible.

Grant's coloring page

Letter Disk Match - upper and lower-case

Play-Doh mat

Letter O - Octopus puzzle

Tracing page

Cutting page - this one was a little tricky with the circles thrown in there.  She didn't do too bad though.  Seemed to handle the circles better than she did the zig-zags.

Pattern Practice - She's getting better with the patterns.

Of course with it being O week, we had to have oranges for snack one day.

This picture's a little dark, but I wanted to show the capital and lower-case O's she made.  Not bad!  I love her lower-case O...very tiny.  :)

Number Pre-Writing

She glued oatmeal to her letter O for her ABC book.

Color puzzles - Jenna was lining them up and naming them all - Daddy was the blue octopus on the left, while Mommy, Jenna, and Grant were the last three octopi on the right.  I can't remember who was in the middle.

Jenna's Do-a-Dot page - I let her use a few different colors this time since Grant was sleeping when we did school that day...she had a little "too much" fun on this one.  :) 

Letter Search - She found all her O's...as well as a few e's and an m.

Graphing - This time I had Jenna count the octopi, find the correct number card, and then count the correct number of Cheerios.  I also had Jenna put the Cheerios on top of the octopi instead of in the boxes below.  That seemed to help with counting the correct number.

We had some Oreos for dessert one day - couldn't pass up another great O treat!

The O Wikki Stix

Magnet Page - notice how she had to match the pom pom magnets to the octopi on the page.

Poke Page

Clip Cards - She put the correct number of clips on some of the cards, but she had a harder time with them as the numbers got higher.

The finished product

Octopus lacing card

We decided to make some oatmeal cookies also.  Jenna was a bit excited, can you tell?

How Many? - I would put the number card on the page and she had to put the correct number of octopi on there.  Next time I might mix it up and switch the roles - I put the picture cards on there while Jenna finds the correct number. 

Size Sort - This activity was pretty easy for Jenna.  She just had to organize the octopi as small, medium, or large.

Putting the letter O on the coconut tree.

Another letter O craft - the kids used the Do-a-Dot markers to decorate the letter O.

Then we cut them out (Jenna cut the outside of her O, while I cut the inside) and glued the octopus tentacles on them.  Apparently I miscounted and our octopi only have 7 tentacles.  :)