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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Unit and Centers

Last week we did our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom unit. It’s always so much fun!! The kids just love this story!!

This year, I used Deedee and Deanna’s Guiding Readers Unit for August and September. I just LOVE this unit!! It’s so easy to implement, it’s VERY thorough and has such fun and meaningful activities included!

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This lesson was on Problem and Solution. We talked about the problem in the story (that the letters got hurt) and what possible solutions were. The kids never cease to amaze me! Look at these smart and creative solutions taht they came up with!!! Throwing coconuts out of the tree so that the tree wouldn’t be as heavy?!? I never would have thought of that! BRILLIANT!!!!

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The lesson below is also from Deedee and Deanna’s Guiding Readers unit! It is on sequencing the events of a story. So…..I kind of FAILED at making a nice, pretty sequencing chart. Ha!!! This is called last minute improvising! 😉 I just wrote the numbers on the board and they had to select the next picture and hang it up with a magnet. Hey, it works…right?!

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After sequencing the events as a class, it was time to sequence them on our own. We cut out the pictures and glued them in the correct order on a brown strip. I thought, hey! Why not make sequencing hats! So, we added some leaves and turned our sequencing strips into Chicka hats! So cute!!!

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I couldn’t let the week go by without doing this favorite activity with a real coconut! We talked about our 5 senses and did this adorable activity from Deanna Jump!!

Next, we read this story. (Click HERE to find this adorable book!)
In this story, a storm blows up and the coconut falls into the ocean. We talked briefly about what the pictures show and what happened to the coconut.
Later on that day, it was time for an experiment.  You can grab the response sheet for this experiment from Deanna Jump’s blog.  First we predicted whether we thought the coconut would sink or float.
I know, you’re thinking I can’t do that with my class!!! It’s way to early in the year!! All I did was project this page up on the white board so I could show them exactly what to do and where to do it ?
Some students predicted that the coconut would float and some said that it would sink. When I asked why-they had FABULOUS answers!!! The child that I asked who said it would sink said it was “because when we felt it-it was heavy.” So, great prediction!!! The child that I asked why they thought it would float said “because it floated in the story.” Yay!!!! Another great prediction!!!!
Here goes…….
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Here’s what we found out….
And here are some of the centers we did this week!! You can find these centers in my Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Math and Literacy Center pack. All Centers are Common Core aligned and come with “I can” statement task cards to help promote independent work. Most of the centers in this pack include different options to differentiate to meet all of your students’ needs.
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The kids have so much fun with our pattern block activities!!! In the picture below, one student has built Pete and the other student is working on a Chicka Tree. These fun and colorful mats and coordinating activities definitely bring some added fun to our math centers!!!

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You can find these pattern block mats in my Pattern Block Puzzles for August and September pack!

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  1. Sara

    September 16, 2015 at 10:48 am

    What an awesome post!! I LOVE that you did a post with the guiding reading units from Wills and Jump! I have been wondering about them. It is so great to see those products in action from other teachers. I have your Chicka unit and I LOVE it! I also have ALL your pattern block units and LOVE them! We did the pencils and school houses just yesterday! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO!

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  2. Linda

    September 16, 2015 at 7:43 pm

    I love DeeDee and Deanna’s Guiding Readers Units as well. I love how they really focus in on those key comprehension skills that need to be learned in kindergarten!! I love what you did to integrate science in this unit!! I will do that next year because it falls right during our unit on the 5 senses!! Thanks again for the great post!! Linda Groce

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