Author: Bill Martin Jr and Joch Archambault Illustrator: Lois Ehlert Age Range: 1 - 4 years Grade Level: Preschool and up Lexile: AD400L Publisher: Little Simon (2012) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1442450707 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is one of those books that small children will love. It is a book about the alphabet. This story gives each allows kids to view each letter with a personality trait. Some of the letters even have some conversation. For example: A told B and B told C,“I’ll meet you at the top, of the coconut tree.” When my children were younger we read this book over and over. I also found a YouTube video that turned the book into a song. I found my children singing the song in the car or at the dinner table. This is book is a must in your collection because it’s a book about the alphabets but there are plenty of resources that you can do at home to make connections. ACTIVITIES: Activities that you can use for this book would be: Have your child create a “Palm” Tree using their hand prints. I would paint their entire hand with green paint and then place their hand on the paper. They could use their footprints as the tree trunk. (Make sure to have paper towels, and baby wipes handy) Next you can use Dollar Tree alphabet stickers for the letter. Or you can draw the letters and have your child trace the letters. You can glue a palm tree cut out onto an old cookie sheet and use refrigerator magnets to teach letter identification. “Nyla can you put an E on the palm tree.” This works on fine motor skills as well as reinforces site words. My favorite activity was when I places sight words around the house and my daughter would run through the house with a fly swatter smacking the letters. So how fun would it be if you went to the dollar tree during the summer months and get some Luau decorations and create your own tree in your house. You could start with letters and then progress to small words. Like red, yellow, blue, etc. I did this before they could read. I would write the color red with a red marker. Eventually the words became black. Finally I would write the word red in an orange marker. That was super funny to watch. Also you could make snack fun by creating a palm tree using graham crackers as the trunk. Green apples as the leaves, and blueberries as the coconuts. You can use alphabet cereal sprinkles on the plate. Finally here are several websites that you can print out for your children to use: http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/chicka-chicka-boom-boom-theme/ http://www.makinglearningfun.com/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.makinglearningfun.com/Activities/chickachickaboom/CCBBletterAssessments/CCBBLowerCaseAssessment.gif https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-Cutting-Skills-Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom-1377980 http://krogerskindergarten.blogspot.com/2012/09/chicka-chicka-boom-boom-sale-and-some.html YouTube Videos: If you love Chicka Chicka Boom try:
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 (Chicka Chicka #2)by Bill Martin Jr., Michael Sampson, Lois Ehlert (Illustrator) Boom Chicka Rock (Chicka Chicka #3)by John Archambault, Suzanne Tanner Chitwood (Illustrator) Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?(Bill Martin's Bears #1)by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle (Illustrator) Professional Reviews: "In this bright and lively rhyme, the letters of the alphabet race each other to the top of the coconut tree. When X, Y and Z finally scramble up the trunk, however, the weight is too much, and down they all tumble in a colorful chaotic heap: ``Chicka Chicka . . . BOOM! BOOM!'' All the family members race to help, as one by one the letters recover in amusingly battered fashion. Poor stubbed toe E has a swollen appendage, while F sports a jaunty Band-Aid and P is indeed black-eyed. As the tropic sun goes down and a radiant full moon appears, indomitable A leaps out of bed, double-daring his colleagues to another treetop race. This nonsense verse delights with its deceptively simple narrative and with the repetition of such catchy phrases as ``skit skat skoodle doot.'' Ehlert's bold color scheme, complete with hot pink and orange borders, matches the crazy mood perfectly. Children will revel in seeing the familiar alphabet transported into this madcap adventure." [Review of the book Chicka chicka boom boom, by B. Martin, Jr. & J. Archambault]. (1989, October 13). Publisher "Rhythm and rhyme are at the heart of this beguiling alphabet book. The title sets the tone and the first stanza grabs your ear: "A told B / and B told C, / `I'll meet you at the top / of the coconut tree.' / `Whee!' said D to E F G, / `I'll beat you to the top / of the coconut tree.'" A semblance of a story involves all the little (lower case) letters, who scramble up the tree trunk, which tips over, spilling all onto the ground. Then, "Mamas and papas / and uncles and aunts20/ hug their little dears, / then dust their pants." The bright colors and crisp, stylized shapes, that are rapidly becoming Ehlert's trademark put plenty of visual zing in the pages. This begs to be read aloud, an experience that should make learning one's ABCs a highly palatable exercise." Wilms, D. (1989, October 15). [Review of the book Chicka chicka boom boom, by B. Martin, Jr. & J. Archambault]. Booklist. Retrieved from http://www.booklistonline.com/
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