Will There be Enough Room?

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr., and John Archambault

While working on the letters of the alphabet with my kindergartners last week, I was thinking of a better way to introduce alphabetizing words. We had been using letter magnets on the chalkboard in the front of the class, but the children seemed to get a little lost after a few minutes. I remembered this classic book from when I was a little girl. This book is about the 26 letters of the alphabet as they try to climb up the coconut tree without falling out, and as they attempt to pile into the tree, the letters tell one another in order to meet in the coconut tree. The children will love the quirky words and sounds that the book allows them to make, and I really think this will grab their attention. This is the kind of book that doesn’t make sense to me NOW as an adult, but will always speak clearly to children so it seems, and something that they can really have fun with. Hopefully, using this book in my lesson will either show me to keep it in my book list as I become a teacher, or show me that I need to rethink my class library.