Octopus Hunt and the O-lympics!!

we started off our letter O week with an Octopus hunt!  instead of a lion hunt, we put on our letter O goggles and hopped in the Ocean to go on an Octopus hunt.  we took a huge breath and jumped into the Ocean, smush-smush-smushed our way through a sandbar, 

swish-swish-swished our way through seaweed,

splash-splash-splashed our way through some big waves,

and then found the Octopus cave in which our Octopuses (Octopi?) were hiding!  

after being captured, the Octopi were pretty hungry, so we brought them back to the activity table for a snack.  we traced around the letter O, then we brought out an alphabet soup.  the Octopi only wanted to eat letter O's, so the kids had to find all the O's in the mixed-up letters on the table and only glue O's on the Octopi's tentacles.

then we read "Oliver Octopus Takes a Job" from the two-minute stories book and counted all his arms and legs (8!)

then we used our four fingers on one hand and four fingers on the other hand to make our own little Octopi swimming in the Ocean.

on day 2, we had the O-lympics!!  first the kids had to paint their noodle letter O's.  once they finished painting, they would go down the slide and get a bike to ride around the big letter O on the ground.  after that they would go to the bowling lane and knock down the letter O (monsters were extra points...), and then back to the table to put together a letter O picnic plate--only foods that started with the "O" sound were allowed on the plate!

i seriously thought these activities would take us until 1015, at the very earliest, but these smarty-pants whizzed through all the activities!  they had more time to play!  everyone loved the slide, riding bikes, and coming back to paint more and more.

say "O"!!

Mm is for ....

We talked about the letter M.  We started out by looking for pictures around he house that started with M.  We found a monkey, money, moon, and mermaid.

 We then talked about the five senses using a Marshmallow

Sight- They said it looked round and white.

Smell- They all took a good whiff and said it smelled yummy and also like a flower.

Touch- They then felt the outside and said it was soft and they we opened up the marshmallow and felt the inside and it was sticky

Sound- We then took the marshmallow and squished it in our hands to see if we heard anything and we didn't

Taste-  This was the last and best sense to talk about.  I asked what it tasted like and they decided it was yummy and tasted like a marshmallow!

 

Max

 Calvin

Jessa

Lynlee

 After we finished the marshmallow sensory we read the book "Five Little Monkeys Go To The Store" about the momma monkey missing little monkeys as she has to find things in the store.  We then colored a picture of a monkey and finished up with a marshmallow treat.

 On Day two we started by playing with magnets.  We had fun putting the letters on the pan and then tipping it upside down to see if it would fall.

 We then read the story, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" and then went to the table to make a mouse with the letter Mm.  For a snack we talked about mud.  We discussed how when dirt gets wet it turns into mud and how you can find worms in the mud.

So, for the treat we had chocolate pudding that looked like mud with gummy worms and smashed Oreos for the dirt on top.