To celebrate the National Education Association’s Read Across America, volunteers are invited to United Way Success By 6 partners to have fun reading and counting along with the childhood classic, Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3, and then help the preschool students count while acting out the story!
Valeska Hinton's ECEC Success By 6 classroom has been provided a copy of Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 and a prop kit:
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In the prop kit you will find a copy of the book Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin Jr., a set of 21 number cards shaped like apples (0-21), and an apple tree to be used as you retell the story.
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Please read the story with the students once before acting it out using the props provided in the bag.
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Once you are ready to act out the story, hang the apple tree up or place on the floor in a large open space (like the circle time carpet). Have the children sit around the apple tree. Explain to the children that they are going to help you act out the story. Next pass out number card apples to children who are willing to participate.
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Then read through the story again. This time children will bring up their number as it is read in the story and they will make the number apple go up the apple tree trunk and place it somewhere in the tree. You may want to use tape to make the apples stick in the tree. As the numbers in the story count come back down, the children can come up and take their numbered apple off the tree. The number "10" should not be removed from the tree ... it needs to stay at the top until the end of the story so it can have the number "0" added to it to make the number "100".
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Feel free to act out the story as many times as you like to include all of the students.
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Have fun and don’t hesitate to get creative with the story line!
