Author: Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson
Title: Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3
Illustrator: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Year: 2004
Format: Audio
Genre: Counting
Reading Level: Emergent
Interest-Level: Pre-School, Elementary
Topics: Numbers, Counting, Sequence
Summary: “Will there be a place for me? 1 told 2 and 2 told 3, race me to the top of the apple tree!” begins Chicka, Chikca 1, 2, 3. This story is great for children learning numbers. The flow and repetition of numbers and words will have the children counting and singing along with the story by the end of the book.
Extension Activities:
-Give the children a bingo card shaped like a tree with circles on the leaves to represent apples. Read off numbers and they have to dot/color that many apples in on their bingo cards. When a students colors in all their apples they have “bingo!”
-On a giant poster write the numbers 1-20 and from there count by tens to 100. Cut out the corresponding numbers on construction paper. Hand out a couple numbers to each student and have them match them on the poster board to the numbers they have.
-Let them play around with magnet numbers on the chalkboard. Have them create double digits, like 10, 11, 12, 20, etc by using a one or a zero.
