Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom

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                                             Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom

                                         By Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault

 

 

Concepts and Themes

  • Alphabet
  • Coconut/ coconut tree

 

 

Expanded Core Curriculum Activities

 

Compensatory Skills

  • Use food coloring and alcohol to color/ die alphabet noodles.  Glue the colored alphabet noodles to a "tree"

 

  • You can also use alphabet stamps (A thru Z), stickers (Braille stickers available from APH), label tape to create an alphabet tree. 

 

  • Make a Large Coconut Tree!

Make palm tree from 4/5 empty fruit/vegetable cans from cafeteria.  Remove bottoms from 2/3 cans, leave bottoms in 2.  Put cement or plaster of paris in bottom can to weight.  Begin stacking cans with tops 7 bottoms removed. Tape together with duck tape. Top can will also have a bottom.  Spray paint brown.  In a smaller can put styrofoam/plant foam and insert a palm-like artificial plant.  Use tree for children to place magnetic letters.

This idea from: Teachers.net

Teacher: Beverly, North Ward Elem., Clearwater, FL

 

  • Sand Table:  Of course hide letters in your sand table for your students to scoop out!  You can use plastic or foam letters ... even magnetic letters!  A sand pail, shovel, sea shells, or coconut shells wouldn't be too out of place either

 

  • Coconut Play dough: Create some coconut scented play dough.  Make your favorite play dough recipe and add a few drops of coconut extract, or add the coconut extract to commercial white play dough.
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                                                Making Coconut Playdough

 

 

Social Interaction

  • Beach Party: Have a beach party either inside or out.  Or go to a local beach area if available.  Even inside, the children will have a great time.  Have them wear appropriate beach or summertime apparel, including the sunglasses.  You can spread beach towels on the floor to sit on, put on tanning lotion for sense of smell (check for allergies ahead of time), and reread the story.  Afterwards,  listening to the story, play games: roll and catch a beach ball,. throw around a Frisbee, etc.

 

 

Independent Living Skills

 

  • Taste Test a Coconut:  Purchase a couple of coconuts from the produce section of your grocery store.  Put one in your Discovery Center for individual observation later.  Before opening the other, pass it around to your students and let them observe what the coconut looks like, feels like and sounds like.  More than likely, they've never seen one.  Then have them help to complete a chart such as the one below:

 

  • Make a coconut fruit salad, using oranges, coconut, pineapple, bananas, cherries.  You can even add miniature marshmallows.
  • Drink fruit juice (orange, pineapple, banana)

 

  • Serve coconut pie or coconut cake

 

  • Using a set of alphabet cookie cutters, make ABC cookies from a sugar cookie recipe.  The alphabet cutters can also be used on Jell-O jigglers.

 

  • Create an edible tree using celery, peanut butter, ABC cereal and malted milk ball coconut trees.

 

  • Taste the coconut in an Almond Joy candy bar, can get the small candy bars at Halloween time.

 

  • Cereal snack: Instead of making Rice Krispy treats, use the same recipe with alphabet cereal and coco puffs.  The coco puffs are the coconuts.