This week we did a lot of fun activities with the book, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." It is a fun story about lowercase letters that all run up a coconut tree. The tree gets too heavy and they all fall out and hurt themselves. After getting bandaged up from their capital letters, they try again.
After reading the story, I told the kids there was an alphabet that ran away from our class and hid all over the school. We quietly hunted down all of the letters using clues to help us know where to look. They were so good at silently pointing when they found some of the missing letters. After we finished finding the whole alphabet, we went back to our classroom and looked for a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree. That led us to a cabinet where a treat was waiting inside!
There were graham crackers, green apples, and Whoppers waiting for us! We made our own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom trees! (We were going to have letters going up our trees with Alphabet cereal too, but they don't make it anymore)! :(
We watched an animated version of the story while we ate our yummy trees. You can view the video with your child here:
Since we focused on learning our shapes this week, we made our own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom trees using shapes. Squares for the trunk, rectangles and triangles for leaves, and circles for the coconuts.
The letters of our names ran up the coconut tree this time! The kids had to count how many letters were in their names to see if there was going to be enough room in the tree for their name. Luckily, nobody's coconut tree tipped over! :)
We have now reviewed all four of the basic shapes: circle, square, rectangle, and triangle. The difference between a square and rectangle can be the most tricky for the kids. Each day, we had a mystery bag. I pulled things out of the mystery bag and we had to guess what was the same about all of the objects. They enjoyed this game and it helped them start to see shapes in their environment.
One of their favorite centers was this huge shape sorting activity. They worked together sorting shapes of all different sizes and colors. Here are some fun videos we did in class that helped us learn about each shape and practice forming each shape. While we were off track, I went to a technology class and received an iPad and Apple TV for our classroom! Being able to show songs and online stories has been such a fun addition to our learning!
We had some special friends this week!
Parker was our Star Student. He had fun telling us about his special blanket that keeps him warm.
Happy 5th birthday to Oliver! Thanks for the yummy cupcakes!
And happy 6th birthday to Cameron! He shared some Skittles with our class and everyone loved them!
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