Materials
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
poster board
scissors
bulletin
board paper
Ticky Tac or tape
marker
pointer or yardstick
Instructions
1. Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom at the beginning of the year.
2. Cut out two large palm trees swaying into each other from poster board. Also
cut out 26 coconuts for the alphabet plus a few others for decoration.
3. Label each of the 26 coconuts with a letter of the alphabet (upper- and
lowercase.)
4. Glue or tape the trees to a large piece of bulletin board paper. Attach it to the
bulletin board or a wall in the classroom. Write the title "Chicka Chicka
Boom Boom These Are the Letters I've Learned in My Room" above the palm
trees.
5. As the children learn the letters of the alphabet, let them attach the coconut
to the tree or near the tree. At the end of the year, the tree will be full.
6. Every time you add a letter to the tree, review the letters already on the tree.
Choose a child to stand by the tree with a pointer (to point to the letter). As
you call out a letter, the whole group says the phonetic sounds for that letter.
Author Note: The children love standing in front of the class and using the
pointer like the teacher. One year, this activity covered half of one of the walls in
the room and the children loved it.
