Happy Friday, Last day of Octopus Ollie!

We are Octoterrific!

We enjoy this entertaining book at circle.

Then we made clay octopus.  Tactile activities are wonderful for engaging more parts of the brain making it easier to retain information.  As we made our Octopus Ollies we sang our Oo~Octopus Ollie song.

Singing/music also engages different parts of the brain.  The more parts of the brain engaged during an activity the more information is retained!

Tactile learning is VERY important.

J's Clay Octopus Ollie

S's Clay Octopus Ollie

Time to link all this Octopus learning fun more concretely with our letter of the week. 

Ocean O's

Cutting

Painting

gluing

J's ocean O.

S's ocean O.

They are always so proud of their work.

We had so much fun creating these oceans.  We named and talked about the different animals who live in the ocean, then we got busy creating an ocean of our own.  We used oatmeal for the sand. 

Painting our ocean

Cutting and gluing our ocean animals

Oh so proud of our work!

One last octopus art activity before lunch.

How do you make a paper bag octopus?  

First you

stuff it...

Then you,

stamp it~

And there you have it

a very cute paper bag Octopus Ollie!

Lunch we enjoyed octopus stew

S's Recipe for Octopus Stew

Octopus

Jelly-Fish

Fish

Salt and Pepper

Put everything in a pot

Cook it at 3 degrees

for

2 days

ENJOY!

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J's Recipe for Octopus Stew

Octopus

Broth

Pepper

Rice

Beans

Put everything in a pot

Cook at 50 degrees

For

2 hours.

ENJOY!

After nap we practiced writing our names and did this octopus fact worksheet

Then we enjoyed watching Finding Nemo!

Happy Friday, Everyone!

Ms. P