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Here are a few ideas gleaned from the internet for this wonderful, beginning of school book. These are not my clever ideas, and I haven't tried them yet but I thought they sounded like fun.
Take pictures of kids for a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Look Who’s in (teacher's name) Room book.
make coconut trees for b. Board; use newspapers for kids to find letters to add to trees. Do it twice, first time with their names done in teacher font to be cut apart and glued on tree, taken home; 2nd time as above to stay in class. Glue sand around bottom of tree.
Fill a beach pail with sand and mix in some plastic alphabet letters. Have students sit in a circle, placing the pail on a beach towel in the middle of the circle. Let each child take a turn pulling out a letter from the sand. Ask them to hand the letter to you. Then, see if the class knows the name of the letter. Once all of the letters are pulled from the sand, have students help count how many letters there are altogether. Stress that there are 26 letters in the alphabet.
Make a Chicka Boom Boom Tree from celery, cheese whiz, and Alpha-Bits cereal! Yum! (Put on a paper plate, 1 celery leaf makes the coconut tree leaves)
paint centre - use foam letters to paint the alphabet; can be done on a pre-made coconut tree template, or on a tree the children have made from construction paper
graph letters based on curved / not curved lines; how many of each? Each child could make their own graph with prepared letters; what about doing an upper case and lower case graph with the same criteria?
Count the letters - count both upper and lower case together
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