Chica Chica Boom Boom! by Bill Martin, Jr.
Circle Time
- Use Kid Pix to re-enact the story. Select the palm tree stamp and enlarge
before stamping by clicking on OPTION-SHIFT. Then choose the letters of
the alphabet and have the children bring the letters up the tree. Later,
erase the letters along with the story. This can be adapted to numbers
and even to pictures related to another unit. --Submitted
by Cyndee Smith who learned it from Naomi Zott
- One day, instead of reading the story to the children yourself, use
Davidson's CD "Chica Chica Boom Boom!" to let Ray Charles read
the story to the kids.
- I used this communication board
to let M - who was non-verbal and not ready for letter identification -
be an active participant in an activity where the other children could
identify letters and count. M used the board to give a direction to the
class - either "Roger, go get a letter (or number)" or "Everybody,
go boom!" If he said "go boom," we would all say "Chicka
Chicka Boom Boom" while slapping our knees twice, clapping once, and
then slapping the floor with our hands on the last "boom!" If
he said to get a letter, the child called would pick a magnetic letter
from my hand and place it on a tree drawn on the chalk board. I could ask
the child to identify the letter or a word beginning with that letter depending
on ability. If M said to pick a number, the child called would choose a
magnetic number from my hand, place it on the board, and then draw that
many coconuts on the tree. You could make the letters they chose from spell
a word if the kids are ready for that. When the class goes boom!, you can
slide all the letters down the chalkboard as if they are falling off the
tree and then start over.
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