Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

One of the most important skills we practise in kindergarten is learning to work together with our peers. Working together is sometimes tricky because we can't always have or get everything that we want.  We have to take turns and listen to our friends thoughts and feelings.  To help us practise working together, we read two stories:

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is silly story about lower case letters trying to climb a coconut tree.  When they all reach the top, the tumble out of the tree.  The uppercase letters help the little letters and work together to make it to the top of the coconut tree.

Scribble is a simple story about three shapes and scribble.  The scribble wants to be friends with the shapes, but the shapes don't want to. After a little while, the shapes realize that they can create beautiful pictures when they work together.

With this in mind, we were challenged to work together to create our own version of a coconut tree. With a partner, we had to figure out what different materials in our classroom we could use to make a coconut tree.

After we created our tree, we had to share our thinking with our friends.  

We are very creative kids!

Another way we worked together is when we made a class Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree.  First, we made textured hexagons by glueing yarn, fabric and crepe paper to each cut out shape.

We glued all the hexagons together and then added a scribble to the top to make a crown of leaves.

We painted each others hands and then glued on letters that we made earlier in the week.

Look at what we can do when we work together!

To finish off another great week, we made and ate our very own Chicka Chicka Snack.  YUM!!