{"id":696,"date":"2008-01-11T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=696"},"modified":"2009-10-17T15:24:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T22:24:03","slug":"start-and-more-chicka-chicka-boom-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"stART and More – Chicka Chicka Boom Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read <\/span>Chicka Chicka Boom Boom<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> by Bill Martin Jr. (Author), John Archambault (Author), Lois Ehlert (Illustrator).\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>In this bright and lively rhyme, the letters of the alphabet race each other to the top of the coconut tree. When X, Y, and Z finally scramble up the trunk, however, the weight is too much, and down they all tumble in a colorful chaotic heap: “Chicka Chicka . . . BOOM! BOOM!” All the family members race to help, as one by one the letters recover in amusingly battered fashion. Poor stubbed toe E has a swollen appendage, while F sports a jaunty Band-Aid, and P is indeed black-eyed. As the tropic sun goes down and a radiant full moon appears, indomitable A leaps out of bed, double-daring his colleagues to another treetop race. This nonsense verse delights with its deceptively simple narrative and with the repetition of such catchy phrases as “skit skat skoodle doot.” Ehlert’s bold color scheme, complete with hot pink and orange borders, matches the crazy mood perfectly. Children will revel in seeing the familiar alphabet transported into this madcap adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Questions to promote discussion:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Do you think all of the letters will be able to fit up in the top of the tree?\u00c2\u00a0 Why or why not?<\/li>\n
  • Have you ever climbed a tree?\u00c2\u00a0 What was the experience like?<\/li>\n
  • What might happen as more letters climb the tree?<\/li>\n
  • Why do you think the letters all fell out of the tree? What happened?<\/li>\n
  • Have you ever fallen down?<\/li>\n
  • What happened when you fell?<\/li>\n
  • Did someone come and help you? How did they help?<\/li>\n
  • What happened to the letters when they fell down?<\/li>\n
  • Where do you think the letters are going as their families help them get up form the letter pile? Why do you think this?<\/li>\n

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    Art: First, I painted the trunk of the tree. Next, the fun begins when you start painting little toes. Warning: giggling will occur, this is normal:) Stamp your child’s foot on the paper to create the top of the tree. After you clean off your child’s foot, make a few coconuts with their thumbprint. Last, glue on a few letters and you have a “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” coconut tree.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Printables<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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    In the Kitchen:\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Make coconut trees from celery stalks (with leaves), peanut butter and Alpha-Bits Cereal.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Or bake coconut tree cookies with a palm tree cookie cutter.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Frost and add halved malted milk balls for coconuts and alpha-bits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. (Author), John Archambault (Author), Lois Ehlert (Illustrator).\u00c2\u00a0 In this bright and lively rhyme, the letters of the alphabet race each other to the top of the coconut tree. When X, Y, and Z finally scramble up the trunk, however, the weight is too much, and down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,58,34,35,15,49,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}