- chart paper
- marker
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MA Standards:
Literature/RL.PK.MA.8.A: Respond with movement or clapping to a regular beat in poetry or song.
Literature/RL.PK.MA.9: With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences.
Mathematics/Counting and Cardinality/PK.CC.MA.1: Listen to and say the names of numbers in meaningful contexts.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Print Concepts & Conventions: Recognizes words as a unit of print and understands that letters are grouped to form words.
Literacy Knowledge/Print Concepts & Conventions: Recognizes the association between spoken or signed and written words.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 5: Listen to and use formal and informal language.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 14: Recognize and supply rhythm and rhyme in poetry.
Mathematics/Number Sense 1: Listen to and say the names of numbers in meaningful contexts.
Recite Together: “Who Is In Our Room?”
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Educator Prep: Copy the words of “Who Is In Our Classroom?” on chart paper.
Display the poem chart.
Tell children that you are going to teach them a poem that has some of the silly words from Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Explain that the poem is about the whole group of children. Say, The poem is about our whole group. That means it is about everyone in our group. How many children are in our whole group? (Count aloud.)
- Point to the words on the chart as you read the poem aloud.
- On subsequent readings have children pop up and say their name as you point to each child.
Who Is in Our Room?
Chicka chicka boom boom,
Who is in our room?
Here is <child's name> and <child's name> and <child's name>.
Chicka chicka boom boom,
Who else is in our room?
There’s <child's name> and <child's name> and <child's name>.
Skit skat skoodle doot,
Flip flop flee,
I’m so glad you’re here with me!
Repeat to include every child in the room. You may also want to try this variation:
Chicka chicka boom boom!
Will there be enough room?
Here comes <name of child>
Up the coconut tree!