The Mom I Want to Be

1. Present a capitol and lower case O to your child.  See if she knows the name of the letter and the sounds it makes.  Explain that it’s a letter that sometimes makes the same sound as its name.  Give examples of long o words such as ocean, only and oatmeal.  See if she knows the other sound that it makes.  Provide examples of short O words, such as octopus, owl and onion.

 

2. Read The Big Orange Splot

 

3. Go on a scavenger hunt around the house to find items that start with O for the O bag this week.  You might find pctopus, owl, oatmeal, orange, oil, overalls, onions, olives, etc

 

4. Create an O collage.  Have your child search through magazines for O words, and glue them to paper for his alphabet book.

 

5.  O Filled O’s.  Provide an O cut from orange construction paper, and a sheet of hold reinforcements.  Have her decorate the reinforcements, and then stick them to her O. When done,  glue to a sheet of 8.5 x 11” paper for their alphabet book.

 

6. Provide a worksheet with a line of O’s to trace across the top and a blank spot below, octopus patterns, googly eyes, markers and gluesticks.  Color the octopus patterns.  Glue the octopus head and legs to the sheets.  Count together to make sure they have 8 legs.  Attach googly eyes with glue.

 

7. Other activities: Mix red and orange paint to make orange and paint; have oranges at snack time; eat oatmeal and orange juice for breakfast; Sing “open them shut them”; make an owl paper bag; Marshmallow Octopus