Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

Last week we did a unit on the book, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom". I have TONS of pins on my Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Pinterest board and used them for inspiration.

We made headbands-

First the children glued the letters to the headbands. We have young three year olds so this was more one-to-one correspondence of matching the letter tile to the dot of glue while the teacher named the letter but older children can create the names themselves.

Then I traced the children's hands and cut out five of each, using two different shades of green construction paper.

I stapled the headbands together and stapled the hand cutouts to form the leaves. The children wore them home proudly!

Making Plans...

Hello! I just wanted to post an update and let my readers know that I will be posting more often this school year. my assistant teacher and I have decided that we are going to document our school year and I thought my blog would be a great landing place for the photos and ideas that we come up with! I am looking forward to another fun year!

FREE Printable Kissing Hand Class Book

It's been about a year since I have been on here posting and I apologize. So much happened last school year that I didn't get a chance to create things that I planned to create. I am preparing for this school year (starting Tuesday!) and I am making this adorable class book for the first week of school. I thought this would be something others would be interested in, too. I got the idea from Chalk Talk via Pinterest.

Enjoy!!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

Among the books that I am crazy about is "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom". It is a simple children's book that teaches letters. We used this book for our theme the entire week last week! Here are some highlights:

We created our own coconut trees using apple slices, piroette sticks (those coffee sticks in the $ Tree!), malt balls, and letter shaped animal crackers (found them at Kroger)

Our theme this month is Language Arts so we decided to stretch the weekly theme onto our board!

I forgot to get a picture of our handprint coconut trees! We used the children's handprints to make the leaves and we drew a trunk. They glued foam letters onto the tree.

Last but not least, we listened to this catchy tune all week! My children still don't want to sit for story time so we let them dance while we hold up the book.

FREE Kindle Book: Organized Teacher, Organized Classroom

I haen't read this yet but I just downloaded it to my Kindle! It is a free book worth checking out!

http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B005307N0W/F50-20/KINDLE/