{"id":5853,"date":"2012-07-24T17:29:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinkoddy.wordpress.com\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2013-03-03T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T10:02:30","slug":"o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/o\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our<a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/?page_id=8174\"> letter learning journey<\/a> has brought us to the <strong>Letter O<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I actually discovered that I have to be careful that the words of the things I pick don&#8217;t just start with the letter but the sound I&#8217;m trying to teach. I did do <strong>Owl<\/strong> &#8211; (see<a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/2012\/07\/11\/home-made-owl-biscuit-bags-present\/\"> Owl bags<\/a>) but it doesn&#8217;t actually start with O but Ow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"o\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/o-224x300.jpg?resize=224%2C300\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Instead we made <strong>Oranges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There was talk of how the letter was a circle &#8211; and we looked at other objects of that shape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/createwaytoholdapen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"createwaytoholdapen\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/createwaytoholdapen-300x224.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We made leaves to go with them. Concentrating on <strong>how to hold<\/strong> the pen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/orange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"orange\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/orange-300x224.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then we decided to make an<strong> Octopus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopussticker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"octopussticker\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopussticker-300x230.jpg?resize=300%2C230\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We talked about how many legs they have and what other animals etc have the same number.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopusmaterials.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"octopusmaterials\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopusmaterials-300x229.jpg?resize=300%2C229\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We used a toilet roll holder, a circle and counted out 8 strips for legs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopusface.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"octopusface\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopusface-300x285.jpg?resize=300%2C285\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We made a face with the circle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octofacestuck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"octofacestuck\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octofacestuck-300x298.jpg?resize=300%2C298\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then we glued it to the toilet roll holder<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"octopus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopus-211x300.jpg?resize=211%2C300\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then we coloured in the legs and glued them on<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopus2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"octopus2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/octopus2-224x300.jpg?resize=224%2C300\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I also found this great<a href=\"http:\/\/decoratingwithbarbara.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/07\/fun-time-snack.html\"> Octopus Snack @ 21 Rosemary Lane<\/a>.\u00a0I also saw this great <a href=\"http:\/\/librarystorytimeabcs.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/07\/flannel-friday-once-i-saw-octopus.html?m=1\">Octopus Post<\/a> over on Librarystorytimeabcs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our letter learning journey has brought us to the Letter O I actually discovered that I have to be careful that the words of the things I pick don&#8217;t just start with the letter but the sound I&#8217;m trying to teach. 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