Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Literacy & Math Activity

Two colouring-and-counting worksheets built around the picture book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom pair a name-letter colouring page with a coconut-counting page.

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Grades: Preschool–K
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Sep 27, 2022

Subject: Reading, Math, ELA
Topic: Literacy, Math Station
Resource types: Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation: Print ready

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About this resource

This is a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Literacy + Math Activity.

On the first page, students will write their name and color the letters in their name.

On the second page, students will count the coconuts and write how many.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Recognize and colour the lowercase letters that appear in one's own name from a full alphabet set.
Write one's own name on a practice line after identifying its letters.
Count a small set of objects (coconuts) and record the total using a number.
Connect a counting task and a letter-recognition task to a shared picture-book theme.

Teaching tips

Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom aloud before handing out the pages, since both activities are built around the book's coconut-tree imagery.
Have students spell their name aloud before starting the colouring page, since they need to locate each letter individually among all 26 circles.
Use the counting page as a quick formative check of one-to-one correspondence for numbers up to five, since only five coconuts are drawn despite the trunk showing numbers up to ten.

Skills covered

Letter recognition
Name writing
Counting

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Why does the palm tree trunk show numbers 1 through 10 when there are only five coconuts to count?

The trunk's 1-10 markings appear to be decorative background rather than a matching count — only five coconuts are drawn on the page for students to count and record.