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    Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

    By Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

    In this rhyming book, all of the lower case letters of the alphabet race to the top of a
    coconut tree. When the tree bends and they all come tumbling down, the upper
    case letters come to help.

    BEFORE READING:
     Show the children the front of the book. Ask them to guess what the book is
    about.
     Ask them what letters they see on the back of the book.
     Ask them if they know what kind of tree is on the front of the book.

    WHILE READING:
     Stop at any time if there is something you or the children would like to talk
    about.
     Ask them questions so that they can connect what is happening in the book to
    things they already know about. Try some of these ideas:
    Where are the letters going?
    Who runs to the coconut tree when the letters fall down?
    Have you ever fallen and hurt yourself? What happened?

    AFTER READING:
    Spend some time talking about the story. Ask the children things like:
    Why wasn’t there enough room for all of the letters?
    What happened to the letters when they all tried to fit?
    What funny words did you hear in the story?

    Read this book several times to the children. Hearing the same story again and
    again helps them learn new words and understand the ideas they hear better. Each
    day, pick a different activity to do with the children after reading “Chicka Chicka
    Boom Boom”.
    Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
    By Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

    MATH AND SCIENCE THINKING SKILLS


    Grow your own tree. Soak a paper towel in Put four socks in a row on the table or floor in
    water and then put it in the bottom of a cup. Put front of you. Take one sock and move it away
    a bean in the paper towel and water it. Place the from the rest. Ask the children which pile has
    cup on a window sill or table where it will get more in it and how they know. Take one more
    sun. Water the paper towel every day so that it sock away so that there are two piles with two
    stays moist, and see if a sprout begins to grow. socks each. Ask the children to tell you which
    Help the children write a journal that describes pile has more, or if the piles are the same. Add
    how the seed changes. more socks and switch them from pile to pile.
    Have the children decide which pile has more,
    READING READINESS which has less and why.
    Ask the children to repeat the words “Chicka
    Chicka Boom Boom, will there be enough ART
    room?” as you read the story together. Go outside and collect different kinds of leaves.
    Put them on a hard surface one at a time, and
    MUSIC AND MOVEMENT place a piece of paper on top. Rub a crayon
    Move to the words you read in “Chicka Chicka across the paper (which is on top of the leaf) to
    Boom Boom.” Pretend to climb to the top of the make a design on your paper. Compare the
    tree, stomp your feet when you ready “Chicka different designs that the leaves make.
    Chicka Boom Boom” and wiggle your hips
    when you read “Will there be enough room?” PRETEND PLAY
    Act out as many phrases as you can in the book. Pretend to be a farmer or gardener. Take turns
    being the seed by curling up in a ball on the
    MOTOR SKILLS floor. The farmer or gardener can prepare the
    Have the children trace the letters from the ground with a pretend rake, plant the seed, pat
    labels on food containers in the cupboards with the seed with dirt, and pretend to water it. The
    their fingers. Say the letters out loud while you seed will “sprout” from the floor and become a
    are tracing them. You can also take the label off plant. See how tall you can grow!
    the can, or cut the letters out of the cardboard, so
    they can try tracing on a blank piece of paper.
    Let them cut the letters out with scissors when
    they are done.

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