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Where the Octopus Lives

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this letter O worksheet, students color a large picture of an octopus. Students analyze two pictures of habitats and circle the one that shows where an octopus would live. Students trace and practice upper and lower case letter Oo.
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Octopus Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 4th
Children explore the life of an octopus. They listen to a story, answer prediction questions and share their prior knowledge of animals. Students observe the defense mechanism of the octopus. They create an imaginary defense mechanism...
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Octopus Legs

For Teachers K
Students have oceans of fun transforming a wienie into an octopus they can eat! After counting, cutting halves and fourths, observing steam and the effects of heat, they mix colors as they create a yummy dipping sauce from mustard and...
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Fish, Fish: Teaching K Students About Things That Live in the Sea

For Teachers K
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...
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The Cinder-Eyed Cats - Storybook Theater

For Teachers K
The students listen to the story "The Cinder-Eyed Cats." The students then chose individual parts to play in a theater like production. The students move like their character, be it a fish, an octopus, a lobster, a cat, etc. Water music...
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Say /o/

For Teachers K - 1st
Ollie the octopus is occupied! Use this tongue twister to help youngsters learn the /o/ sound. After practicing the target sound, learners should print the letter. When they are familiar with the letter and its sound, the group will...
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Ollie the Octopus Is Holding An Oval

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this ovals worksheet, students learn to recognize and draw ovals. Students trace three ovals and draw some on their own. Students analyze a row of shapes and color the ovals.
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Hungry Ollie Octopus

For Teachers K - 1st
Students 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...
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Reach and Grab

For Teachers K
Students examine the different types of marine life and participate in an activity to show the many arms of an octopus.
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Hop Scotch

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the letter sound of o=/o/. They encounter Elkonin Boxes to assist them with their task as well as the tongue twister "Oliver had an operation in October, and Oscar gave...
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Ah Ah Ah! Don't Do That!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students become familiar with the alphabetic principle that letters stand for phonemes and spellings map out the phonemes in spoken words. They focus on identifying the short /o/ sound in spoken words and the tongue twister "Oscar Otter...
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A Weigh we Go!

For Teachers K - 2nd
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...
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Introduce /o/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The best way to get your scholars familiar with the alphabet is to expose them to each letter in multiple contexts. This strategy incorporates letter recognition, sound, word examples, and pronunciation, and emerging readers will feel...
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Reintroduce /o/

For Teachers Pre-K - K
There are many words that begin with the /o/ sound; scholars study this letter in multiple contexts including intial phoneme examples, pronunciation, and letter recognition. Write the letter on the board to see if learners can identify...
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Introduce Vocabulary: I See Animals Hiding (Arnosky)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Animals are amazing at disguise! Explore the different ways they escape view as scholars learn vocabulary-in-context through Jim Arnosky's book I See Animals Hiding. Prepare pupils to raise their hands when they hear the words by...
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Say Aaaah

For Teachers K - 1st
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 find the...
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Open Up And Say Ahh

For Teachers K - 1st
Who has a word that has an /o/? Teach kids this fun song (sung to the tune of "Skip to My Lou") to remember the /o/ sound and words that contain the target sound. Then have learners identify the sound in various words before reading In...
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Pre-School

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars draw their hand, and color their drawing. They count the number of fingure on thier hand. Students count the number of arms on the marine animal in the picture. They count the number of legs and claws on the marine animal...
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Seashell Homes

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils listen to a story about seashells. They discuss shelled animals. Learners describe the function of seashell. Pupils relate the function of a seashell to their own dwelling. They differentiate between shelled animals that make...
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Something Fishy Going On

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a video animation of how Swimmy gathered his fish friends together to form a great big fish that would frighten the predator tuna away. In art class each child create a small red fish which gets displayed in the ocean...
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Developing Friendships

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students listen to the book Friends and discuss how to make friends and the characteristics of good friends. In this friends lesson, students listen to the story and practice role playing on how to make friendships.
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Short Vowel Movements

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils use gestures to recognize the short vowel sounds.  In this cvc lesson, students use a cue to recognize the vowel sound.  Pupils practice various words with the cues. 
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Suppressing Short O

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars 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...
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Emergent Literacy Design: Going to the Doctor

For Teachers K - 1st
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...

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