Letter Oo Books

Here are the books we read for our two Letter Oo weeks:

Our main theme for the Letter Oo was Oo is for Octopus.

The only cute book on octopus that I could find was An Octopus Followed Me Home by Dan Yaccarino. It was such an adorable book though. The little girl takes home an octopus and asks her daddy if she can keep it. Her Daddy points out all of the crazy animals she has already brought home. She takes the octopus back to the ocean and comes home with a dinosaur. This was my daughter's favorite story for the letter O.

Our other theme was Oo is for opposites.




God Must Really Love Opposites by Rondi DeBoer was a really cute story. It talks about how God created opposites in our world like the bunny who runs fast and the turtle who is slow. The pictures were really nice too.

Black? White? Day? Night! A Book of Opposites by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.  This book is a little flip up book. You lift the flap to find the opposite. My shortcake loved picking up the flaps to find the opposite!



We read two books by Jane Katirgis: Over and Under; Front and Back
These books were a little too young for my 4 year old. They repeat the same opposite in almost the same way. I was kind of disappointed.





We read a cute book about a polar bear named Alex and a penguin named Zina. It was called Polar Opposites by Erik Brooks. The whole book focuses on the opposites found in both of them until they end up on vacation at the equator together!


 

Lastly, we read What's Up, Duck? A Book of Opposites by Tad Hills. This is a board book but it was a great book for my 4 year old. She was able to complete the opposites. The pictures are darling too! My 18 month old had fun "reading" it too!

Letter Ll Activities

Here are some of the activities we planned for our two Ll weeks:

ASL (American Sign Language)
We love ASL in our home. We use it all the time. Here are some of the signs we used for the Letter Ll.
-Letter L
-love
-Lord
-leaf
-light

You can find signs here on my Pinterest board: My 2nd Language

We also used the signs for "same" and "different" in our Phonics lesson. I gave her word pairs that were the same or different.

"same"

"different"

Snacks
-ladybug strawberries
-lemonade
-cherry limeade
 
Bible Connections
Our Bible verse for this week was "Love the Lord your God with all your heart." Deuteronomy 6:5a. (This is included in my Stored In Your Heart Bible Verse Set.) My shortcake loved doing some ASL with this verse we did "love" "Lord" "God" "all" "heart" "6" "5". You can find some signs on my Pinterest Board.

Every week we also pick a prayer person to pray for. It just so happened that my daughter has a friend named LeAnna and another friend named Luke. We made them some cards and sent it to them. We cut out a coloring page for a ladybug and a lion and attached it to a construction paper. 

Ladybug Activities
-Ladybug counting rocks
-HUGE collection of Ladybug activities here!
-Egg carton ladybugs
-Ladybug nails

Leaf Activities
-Leaf Fall Garland craft
-1+1+1=1 Tot School Letter Ll
-Sun catcher Tissue Paper Leaves craft


Here are all of my plans for the Letter Ll. You can download them for free!

These are the books we read.
This is the music we listened to.

Letter Ll Books

Here are the books we read for both Ll weeks:

We started the first week focusing on ladybugs. We read Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth. This is a cute story that gives a great practice with counting 1-10. My daughter has been counting to ten for a long time, but this was perfect for practicing one-to-one correspondence. (This means that she practiced pointing to each ladybug while she counted.) The other great thing is my little shortcake loved reading it to her little brother! This also went well with several ladybug activities.




We read a fun poem called Ladybug, Ladybug from Ladybug, Ladybug and Other Favorite Poems from Cricket Books that I found at our local library. I love incorporating poems when I can.





We read Mary Had A Little Lamb nursery rhyme. I used this print off to read it! I had planned a little lamb craft too!




During week 2 we switched our focus from ladybugs to leaves. We read Zero Is The Leaves On The Tree by Betsy Franco. This was a cute story that talked about many things during the Fall that show us the number zero, including leaves that are no longer on the tree.








As we continued to focus on leaves, we read Leaves, Leaves, Leaves by Nancy E. Wallace. It was a cute story about a little cub who goes on a leaf walk with his Mom during all of the seasons. This was a great introduction to fall time. It was a longer book for a preschooler so it could be split into several different reading times. My shortcake didn't seem to mind sitting still for this one.







Another great leaf book is Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert. The pictures are really nice in this book. We had read this last year and we ran out of time, so we skipped this book.













We finished out the two weeks of the Letter Ll by reading Is Your Mama a Llama by Deborah Guarino. This story is about a little baby who is looking to find her mama.











Don't forget to check out activities that went along with these stories and the music we listened to. Thanks for stopping by!