Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

I admitted to Allegra when she told me this was the next book that she wanted to share that, not only do I not have this book, I only read it a few times to the Kindergartners in whose classrooms I found myself. A quick Google search, however, revealed this lovely video. I watched it twice and found myself bopping around to it. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KpW5oWxRto

An additional at-home activity has to do with matching the upper and lowercase letters. This book features the lowercase letters which may be new to some pre-schoolers as many other alphabet books use the capital letters. Print and cut out a set of letters in their upper an lower case forms. 52 cards in a Memory style game is too many (it's too many for adults...even the game I play on my DS only uses 32 cards). Try using just the vowels or maybe the letters in their name. It's a quick and, I think, fun game. I used a similar idea with numbers and pictures to represent the number (ie: 3 matched a card that theree stars on it). Great for developing 1 to 1 correspondence.

Happy Reading!