Have students practice drawing the letter o with air letters. Make sure that the students are standing far enough away from each other to not hit each other, and then have them use their outstretched arm and finger to draw the letter O in the air. As they draw the letter, they should say “o says aw, O says oh”.
Making an Alphabet Book
Students can decorate their letter O page for their alphabet book any way they like. Drawing the letter O is relatively easy, and they can choose to fill their page with circles or draw just one circle and draw pictures of other things that begin with the letter o. If a student fills the page with o’s, they can then draw faces and other pictures inside each O, coloring some in and even using glitter or construction paper for decorations.
Snacks that Teach the Letter O
Serve Orange Jell-o and Oreos to celebrate O day. You can also cook a hot dog cut into an octopus for each child. To do this, carefully cut the end of the hot dog about a third of the way in like you are splitting the hot dog in half. Now rotate the hot dog and cut another slit, resulting in four “legs” on one end of the hot dog. Repeat on the other side of the hot dog and you have an octopus! Orange slices are another excellent healthy snack option. You can also make mandarin orange salad for a sweet and healthy treat.
Activities that Teach the Letter O
Have students make puppets that represent the letter O. Students can make an owl or an octopus. For an octopus, you can have students cut out eight squiggly legs out of gray construction paper. Glue the legs around the head of the bag puppet, and then cut out a gray blob shaped body to glue on and cover where the legs were glued on. An owl requires a brown or tan oval body. Cut out black construction paper eyes, and an orange beak. See if the children can come up with other great ideas for a letter O puppet.
Teach the letter O with a new page in their alphabet book, snacks and activities. The more active you have the students involved in the learning process, the more they will learn and remember. Remember to teach students both the long and short sound that O makes.
Learn how to teach the other letters of the alphabet.
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