Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree

Here's the coconut tree Mrs. Loftus, Mrs. Reed, and my class made. We painted paper plates brown and used construction scraps to make tear art letters on our coconuts. We made the letter our first name begins with.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

The students had so much fun learning with the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. We practiced identifying and locating letters and words. We practiced matching capital and lowercase letters. We worked with sequencing the letters in our names. We also made our own coconut trees and sequenced the letters in our names.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

We read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and we watched the scholastic video which is the story put to music and the students LOVED it! We did several letter and name activities with the story.

We found the first letter of our name somewhere in our room and then we cut out coconuts and wrote the first letter of our name on them. We put them on our coconut tree we made with Mrs. Guntorius' class.

We also colored and cut our own coconut trees and mounted it on construction paper. We wrote our names and then count and wrote how many letters are in our names. We will make these into a class book.

We also explored a coconut using our five senses! The students loved this, however only a couple liked the way the coconut taste.