Letter O Week- Lesson Plan

We were sticking with the short /o/ sounds this week.  That is the beginning sound in the word "on".  We stayed away from the long /o/ sound like in "overalls" as well as other /o/ sounds like the /ou/ sound in the word "owl".  It is way to confusing to introduce all those sounds at once to little ones.


How to decode our weekly plan- 

(2)- Things I have planned for my two year old
(4)- Things I have planned for my four year old

Yellow- Things to print out (some black and white that students will either cut or color, and some color printed items that I have laminated and ready to use year after year)

Green- Activities that will need some prep time or prep materials.  


My Oo Pinterest Board


Our Oo Lesson Plan (complete with project pictures and 3 shape activities)

Our Weekly Plan- Letter Oo (octagon, making orange, opposites)

PRESCHOOL	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Centers	Letter O Handwriting page   O tracing (2 yr old)	Octopus puzzle	Octopus cutting page	Writing on the easel
Letter of the  week	O is for octopus (cheerios activity)	Opposites cards Cheerio birdfeeders	Octopus Opposite File Folder game	Letter O ring toss game	O is for Olive
Story time		Mouse Shapes	Tickly Octopus
Art	Painting with letter O toilet paper rolls	Otter craft	Octopus toilet paper roll craft	Make the color orange with red and yellow (put colors in gallon bag)	Octopus hand prints
Math	Read shape book  and review shapes Make shapes with sticks (see below)	Make shapes with Bendaroo sticks (See below)	Poke around the shapes with push pin (See below)	Octopus pattern	Octopus size graphing
Color time			Octopus coloring page	Ostrich (pg3)	Octonauts
Food	Orange		Omelet		Olive

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Other Week 1 activities

So week 1 we cover the Letter A and these are the additional activities that we added in during the week...

Prewriting Practice - My son is still at the VERY early stages of writing. (He did the 3rd row.)  So instead of practicing writing the Letter A on paper... which would have been way stressful for him... we practiced lines going from left to right.  If your preschooler is ready for Letters, try this printable.

We found this little puzzle in the $1 section of Target (although it was $2.50).  It is a great easy activity to get preschoolers thinking about the order of things and even how their body is lined up!

We also painted.  Just for fun...

I got this activity from a friend of a friends blog (thanks Rachel!).  

The xylophone was also a Target $1 spot find. He enjoyed matching the colors but wasn't a fan of the coloring part.  

We worked on an opposites puzzle (not sure where I got this one). Although, with his short attention span, I had to divide this activity up and only take out about 7 matches.  

Can you tell we like puzzles around here?!  ABC review...

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