I always enjoy opening the school year with my Chicka Chicka Boom Boom unit! It gets the kids to dive into literature, while going beyond a simple "read aloud". This week we focused on recognizing the repeating pattern that is in Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and practiced reading aloud together. It was fun to see all of their faces light up when they realized they could read too!
We made our own version of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, but we called it Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Look Who's in our Room! Can you spot your child's name and face :)? We will add this book to our classroom library so all the kids can practice reading on their own.
We experimented with a coconut as well! We sat in a circle and held, smelled and shook the coconut prior to forming a hypothesis about whether the coconut would sink or float in water. We talked about the word "hypothesis" and what it means. The students really enjoyed listening to the swooshing sound coming from inside of the coconut!
Here is our prediction chart. We had a lot of "floaters" :).
Below is a picture of student documenting his hypothesis...attempting a writing lesson is always a real stretch the second week of school, but the class did such a great job!
Check back in for a video that documents our experiment :)!
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