Letter Oo Activities

Here are some of the activities we planned for our two Oo 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 Oo.
-Letter O
-octopus
-orange
-opposite (different)

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

Bible Connections
This week we talked about obedience briefly and learned Colossians 3:20 (ESV) "Children OBEY your parents in everything for this pleases the Lord." (This is included in my Stored In Your Heart Bible Verse Set.) Of course this is a favorite verse in our house so we didn't need too much work to memorize it.

 

Each week we pick a prayer person to pray for. Shortcake didn't have any friends that started with the Letter O, so we prayed for President Obama both weeks. We briefly talked about what a president is and how President Obama needs God's wisdom to make wise decisions for our country.

Phonics Connections
We focused on octopus, ostrich, and ox over our two weeks. With my third pregnancy we didn't get through everything, but I always like to over plan.
-O Toilet Paper roll painting
-Made a large Ox and cart. We filled the cart with letter O pictures.
-snack: orange juice with mandarin oranges
-went looking for orange leaves around the yard
-orange nailpolish


Ostrich
-coloring page

Octopus
-coloring page
-Octopus craft
-Octopus paper bag puppet


Math Connections
We continued to focus on OPPOSITES and OCTAGON over the Oo weeks. We read several books on opposites (see my list of books for the letter Oo).


We talked about what an octagon looked like.
Then, we made little octagon monsters .

We also reviewed the color orange. We talked about different things that are orange (oranges, Jack o' lanterns, carrots, etc.) We sang about how to spell the color orange. See my song list for the letter Oo. We went on an orange leaf hunt. We even painted our fingernails orange!! I love teaching my little Shortcake!



Here are my Letter Oo lesson plans. Download them for FREE!

Here are the books we read.
Here is the music we sang.

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!