Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Book Companion September PreK K 1st 2nd Special Ed

About this resource

One theme, one week. Read the same alphabet story every day at circle time, and pull one simple activity after the read-aloud each day: sort, count, find the letter, a get-ready-for-bed life skill, then build a craft. Every student page has one short instruction with a picture, so a paraprofessional can run the room from it too.

This week pairs with **Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault** (or any alphabet story you already have). Not affiliated with the authors or publisher. You need your own copy of the book; nothing from it is reproduced here, and the craft is our own generic palm tree, not the book's artwork.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (54 pages)

• 1 Start Here week plan: what to do after the read-aloud each day, plus what else it practices
• 1 book-and-words page naming the read-aloud, an original circle-time chant ("Climbing High," written for this unit; no song or story text is reprinted), and the 9 circle-time vocabulary words
• 1 how-to page and 9 smartboard slides for whole-group circle time on a projector or interactive board: name the pictures, sort, count (3 slides), the letter hunt, the life skill in order, and the core word
• 9 circle-time vocabulary cards to cut out and use at the carpet (tree, sun, moon, star, book, pencil, school, backpack, notebook)
• Day 1, Sort (school thing or not?), at 3 levels: Level 1 errorless matching, Level 2 the standard two-group sort, Level 3 a third group added (sky, school, or nature). 10 cut-and-glue pieces on every level
• Day 2, Count and glue the number, at 3 levels: Levels 1 and 2 count 1–5 (a 5-piece numeral strip to cut and glue); Level 3 counts 6–10 and writes the number, no cutting
• Day 3, Letter A, at 3 levels: Level 1 glues 5 matching A's, Level 2 finds A and a among 10 look-alike letters, Level 3 says 10 pictures aloud and glues the 5 that start with the /a/ sound
• Writing, at 3 levels: Level 1 traces the big letters, Level 2 traces letters and the word, Level 3 writes the letters and the word independently
• Day 4, a life-skill sequencing page: 5 picture pieces (4 real steps to get ready for bed, first/next/then/last, plus 1 that does not belong)
• Day 5, a book craft: color and cut a palm tree, a sun, a moon and six letter blocks A to F (9 pieces, every cut a straight line), then glue the letters up the trunk on a coloring scene
• 2 fine motor pages: a tracing-paths page and a cutting-practice page
• 2 core-word pages for the word of the week, "up": a big word card for the talker or core board and a 12-word find-and-circle grid (6 of the 12 are the target word)
• 1 "Who Did What This Week" data page (one row per student, a prompt-level code for each day, handy for IEP notes and progress reports)
• 1 family letter to send home on Day 1
• 1 credits page (art and font licenses)
• Ink-saver twins of 18 picture-based student pages (the two craft pages are color-only) in outline art for a photocopier, so the color pages above are optional, not required

Three Levels On Every Academic Task

Sort, count, letters and writing each come in three levels, marked with a small shape instead of a number so children don't compare theirs to a neighbor's: a circle for starting (errorless matching), a square for building (the standard task), a triangle for ready for more (a real step up: a third sort group, 6–10 counting with writing, or beginning sounds).

Cutting Built For Small Hands

Every cut-and-glue page carries 5 or more pieces, lined up edge to edge so each cut is one straight line. Pre-cut them yourself for students who are not cutting independently yet.

Color Or Ink-Saver

Print the color pages, or use the ink-saver twins at the back on a photocopier. Most picture-based student pages have both (the craft pages are color-only by design).

Who This Is For

Any teacher starting a self-contained preschool or early childhood special education classroom who wants a whole week of circle time, ready to pull and go: one theme, a different simple activity every day.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A print-and-go weekly theme unit built around an alphabet theme. It is not a claim about any student's age, diagnosis, or rate of progress, and it does not reproduce any book, its text, or its artwork.