Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

We are nearing the end of the school year and students are getting a chance to show what they know.  One activity we did this week was we read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  The pre-k students loved that they knew the letters in the book.  They had a grand time pointing out the letters they knew and repeating chicka chicka boom boom, will there be enough room?  In small groups they made a coconut tree and wrote letters they knew on the coconuts.  Below are some examples of the completed trees.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar today in pre-k.  So many students are familiar with the book, but they all love it.  I let them chime in and say but he was still hungry each time it was repeated.  We counting the fruits the caterpillar ate.  One of the small group activities we did was to make a caterpillar using 2 different color dots and count how many of each color dot was used to make the caterpillar and how many dots there were all together.  Below are the pictures of the end product.

Parts of a Flower

We are learning about flowers in pre-k this week.  We have read books about flowers, we are planting and caring for flowers, and we are learning about the parts of a flower.  I taught the children the parts of the flower through a poster and a song.  Then the students used some stamps with the flower parts (root, stem, leaf, flower) to create a plant.  At another table the made flowers on a board and talked about each part of the flower and what it did.  Below is a picture of the flower part boards...

The song is sung to Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Roots, Stem, Leaves and Flower, Leaves and Flower
Roots, Stem, Leaves and Flower, Leaves and Flower
Roots, and Stem, and Leaves, and Flower
Roots, Stem, Leaves and Flower, Leaves and Flower

I used the song to review the parts while we were working with the flower parts board.  We also sang it and pretended we were a flower and our feet were the roots, our upper leg and torso were the stem, we stuck our hands out to the side for leaves, and then we put our hands next to our face for the flower.  The kids really took to the song and it helped them remember root and stem, which for most of them were new vocabulary words.