O is for Octopus!

I taught Brennan's preschool this week. For science we read an octopus book and made these cute octopuses. Notice their little "o" suckers.

First they cut out the tentacles. They all got about halfway done before their hands got too tired and I had to finish for them.

Then they put the stickers on one side and the face with googly eyes on the other side.

I stapled them together, attached yarn handles (which all fell off by the time they went home) and curled the tentacles with a pen. Super easy and cute, and the kids had a lot of fun playing with them.

For snack we had orange slices one day and olives the other day. They're even shaped like O's.

For math we learned about octagons and ovals, and they made popsicle stick signs with a red octagon on one side and a green oval on the other. Then they played red light/green light with their signs. We also had an obstacle course in the living room, read small "o" words, colored a little "o" book, watched a Sesame Street skit about opposites and talked about the importance of being optimistic.

But everyone's absolute favorite part of preschool is always lunch. They have these routines they do every single time, and they laugh so hard they can hardly eat. They start out saying, "You can't guess what's in my lunch." One by one they guess and take out each thing in their lunch. This takes awhile, as you can imagine.

They tell each other they have spiders in their hair/on their food. "Ahh!" they all scream and laugh.

Then there's lots of phone calling. "Calling Eric, calling Eric!" Followed by quick conversations, setting up play dates and telling knock knock jokes.

More screams and laughter.

It never gets old, and it's a riot to watch. I've learned to leave plenty of time for lunch.