The Letter O & a Science Day

#1 - Coloring in the letter of the day. I use these templates.

#2- A letter maze for upper and lower case recognition practice.

#3 - Tracing practice. I create one line with 5 capital letters and another line with 5 lower case letters from here. The bottom, empty portion of this page is used for our letter activity of the day.

(I print the letter maze and tracing activity on opposite sides of the same page to save a bit of paper.)

#4- A letter related activity or two. I try and do a paper/crafty activity as well as something for motor skills.

Octagon Octopus in the Ocean

#5- ABC journal. I look through our stack of magazines and pull out pages with letter of the day words and pictures on them. He cuts them out and glues them in his journal.  

The letter O, Ocean, Orange and Odor

He's such a perfectionist though and doesn't like this activity very well cause he can't "cut things out perfect", but scissor work is great for fine motor hand skills used for writing, so this activity remains.

#6 - ABC animal tracks.
Probably his most favorite, unless of course there's a food related activity which obviously trumps anything and everything else.

For O he learned about Opossum.

I thought I'd share the science project we did that day as well.

One of the two books we're using is titled Incredible Edible Science, and I decided to experiment our way through the five senses first, using mostly things we already have in the house. (I'm all about using what you've got on hand.) Our first project was using our sense of sight, or observation skills.

Step 1 - At the beginning of the school day, fill small jars to the tippy top with dried beans, then fill to the toppy tip with water and record your observations with words and/or drawings in your science journal.

At the end of the school day bring out the jars of legumes and observe the metamorphosis.

We were only focusing specifically on the sense of sight, but my enthusiastic scientists wanted to employ their sense of taste...

...and sense of touch as well. Who am I to squelch exploration enthusiasm?!

Bre's journal entry.

Wes' journal.

They can't wait for the next science day to come around, and are constantly trying to get me to spill the beans *hardy har har* about the next project on the roster, but I like to keep it a secret to heighten the excitement factor.

P.S.
Here's the next 5 chapters of The Tale of Jolly Robin comprehension questions and copywork.