Children explore the life of an octopus. They listen to a story, answer prediction questions and share their prior knowledge of animals. Young scholars observe the defense mechanism of the octopus. They create an imaginary defense...

Oodles of fun and opportunities for learning are overwhelming in this Letter O activity series, which features printing practice for letters and numbers, connect the docts, and lots of cute octopi for your learners to color.

A hands-on activity brings the alphabet to life in your kindergarten! Fill tubs with items that begin with the same letter or end with the same sound, and let kids make the connections between the items. 

In this making an octopus activity, students follow 5 steps to make an octopus. Extra materials are needed to complete the product. Students may use the finished product for various classroom activities.

Who knew an alligator could have so many different looks? For this activity, youngsters choose a set of eyes out of eight choices and cut and paste them onto an alligator. They color their creatures after the eyes have been attached.

Beautiful sea creatures help teach young children about colors in a simple cut-and-paste activity. After looking at fun illustrations of fish, dolphins, crabs, and octopi, youngsters must cut out and match a series of colored...

An activity challenges scholars to sort picture cards based on the number of syllables they count as they say the item's name on each card. Depending on how many syllables they count, they place the card in the corresponding box...

Here are some cross-curricular activities whil should help your kids understnad weight measurements and grammar. In this grammar and math lesson, students read the book Skittles Riddles and practice counting and balancing skittles. They...

Students participate in activities designed to help them connect the words to the animals they are studying. Octopus is reinforced through playing a game, "Octopus Tag." Students play a cooperation game of passing bean bags from student...

Learners recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...

Using letter boxes and a series of activities, young learners will identify the /o/ sound. Give them the fun tongue twister before having them manipulate letters in the letter box, and then read In the Big Top. Can your learners...

Learners learn to print the upper and lower case DeNelian letter Oo in this language arts worksheet. Students trace several examples before forming their own letters in the unlined boxes. Also included is a Connect-the-Dot and counting...

In this kindergarten English learning exercise, students look at a picture and make checks next to correct statements, then identify animals, using a drop down list.

Students examine the different types of marine life and participate in an activity to show the many arms of an octopus.

Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' and the short /o/ sound. They recite short /o/ tongue twisters, practice writing the letter 'o', and listen to stories, identifying words with the short /o/...

Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' as it makes the short /o/ sound. Like a doctor would, they look at each other's throats as they say "ahhh" and make the short /o/ sound. They say and make...

In this animals worksheet, students choose where the animals live and the names of the animals. Students complete 2 activities.

For this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, students learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the elephant, lion, octopus and sun on the page and choose from the letters in a box associating...

In this early childhood beginning sounds worksheet, learners learn to recognize beginning letters of words as they look at the pictures of the ball, goat, money, octopus and zebra on the page and then draw a line to the letter each item...

Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter O. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word containing the short /o/...

In this letter recognition worksheet, students circle all of the words in a word bank that begin with the letter O. They circle all of the pictures that begin with the letter O at the bottom of the page. They see black line pictures of...

Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through listening and decoding activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students match the phoneme and letter in words they read on index...

Students study letters. In this letter identification lesson plan, students practice recognizing and making the sound for the letter "o." They work as a class to actively participate in various drills the teacher takes them through. This...

Students review short vowel sounds. They complete a variety of activities as they discover how to say the short /o/ sound, write the letter 'o', and pronounce words with the short /o/ sound. They read stories with short /o/ words in them.