Create "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" name tags. Provide students with brightly colored paper and have them cut and glue a tree trunk and leaves. Distribute neon dot stickers for the letters in each student's name. Instruct students to write the letters of their name on the dot stickers and then arrange the stickers on the tree trunk, like the letters on the tree trunk in the story. Be prepared to assist students that need help writing the letters to spell their name.
Hollow out a coconut or make a bowl that resembles a coconut. Fill the coconut with alphabet letters. Invite students to take turns retrieving a letter from the coconut. As a class, identify the letter and discuss it. Ask students whose names begin with that letter to raise their hands. Then, ask students who have that letter in their name to raise their hands. Challenge students to identify other words that begin with the letter.
Prepare edible Chicka trees. Provide students with green apple slices for the palm trees, cinnamon sticks for the tree trunk, cocoa puff cereal for the coconuts and alphabet cereal for the Chicka letters. Ask students to recreate the Chicka tree with these materials. Challenge students to spell their names with the alphabet cereal and then let them enjoy this tasty treat.
Draw a Chicka tree on the board that is large enough for all the class to see. Use alphabet letters to arrange words going up and down the tree trunk. Provide each student with a set of alphabet letters. Ask each student to recreate the word at his desk. This activity helps students to recognize the characters of the alphabet.