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.

Math and Literacy Fun!!!

This week in math we worked on demonstrating one to one correspondence and writing numbers 0-5. We created sets to count using play dough, color tiles, and cubes.


We used our lap boards to practice writing numbers 1-5 while singing Dr. Jean's The Numeral Song to help us remember the correct strokes for writing our numbers.

This week we also began our Name of the Day activities by "fixing a name" a day. The students have so much fun trying to figure out the mystery student and putting the letters in their in the correct order. Then students are given a page and a strip of letters to cut apart and put in order on the page. Then they illustrate our mystery student and combine them to make a book.

We also have been working on identifying uppercase and lowercase letters with students recognizing the letter name and if it's capital or lowercase. We have also been working on ordering the letters of the alphabet. The students had a lot of fun working in groups to match and order the alphabet.

We've also started our independent reading time. The students choose a book and spread out around the room in a spot of their choice. Right now we are working on quietly looking at the pictures, carefully turning the pages, and pointing to each word on the page, as well as "reading" from top to bottom and left to right.

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.