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How do you spell octopus?
octopus
O-C-T-O-P-U-S
In your language
Русский
осьминог
Español
pulpo
العربية
أخطبوط
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This is an octopus.
I can see an octopus.
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Use it in class
- I spySpread the picture cards around the room and say “I spy with my little eye something beginning with O!” The first child to point at the octopus card and name it spies next.
- Move like itCall “octopus!” and everyone moves and sounds like it around the room until you say “Freeze!”
- Swat itStick the cards on the board and give two children a flyswatter each. Say “octopus”: the first to swat the right picture wins a point.
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Questions and answers
- How do you spell octopus?
- O-C-T-O-P-U-S. Octopus has 7 letters and starts with O.
- What is octopus in Russian, Spanish and Arabic?
- In Russian: осьминог. In Spanish: pulpo. In Arabic: أخطبوط.
- What is the plural of octopus?
- Octopuses: one octopus, two octopuses.
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