Alphabet book with coconut tree

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Chicka chicka boom boom Chicka chicka boom boom Chicka chicka boom boom Chicka chicka boom boom Chicka chicka boom boom A told B, and B told C, “I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.” “Whee!” said D to E, F, G. “I’ll beat you to the top of the coconut tree.” Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room? Here comes H up the coconut tree, and I and J and tag-along K, all on their way up the coconut tree. Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room? Look who’s coming! L, M, N, O, P! And Q, R, S! And T, U, V! Still more—W! And X, Y, Z! The whole alphabet up the—Oh, no! Chicka chicka BOOM! BOOM! Skit skat skoodle doot. Flip flop flee. Everybody running to the coconut tree. Mamas and papas and uncles and aunts hug their little dears, then dust their pants. “Help us up,” cried A, B, C. Next from the pileup skinned-knee D and stubbed-toe E and patched-up F. Then comes G all out of breath. H is tangled up with I. J and K are about to cry. L is knotted like a tie. M is looped. N is stooped. O is twisted alley-oop. Skit skat skoodle doot. Flip flop flee. Look who’s coming! It’s black-eyed P, Q, R, S, and loose-tooth T. Then U, V, W wiggle-jiggle free. Last to come X, Y, Z. And the sun goes down on the coconut tree. But chicka chicka boom boom! Look, there’s a full moon. A is out of bed, and this is what he said, “Dare double dare, you can’t catch me.” Chicka chicka BOOM! BOOM! (Chicka BOOM!) Chicka chicka BOOM! BOOM! (Chicka chicka BOOM! BOOM!) “I’ll beat you to the top of the coconut tree. ” Chicka chicka BOOM! BOOM! (Chicka BOOM!) Chicka chicka BOOM! BOOM! (Chicka chicka BOOM! BOOM!) “Dare double dare, you can’t catch me.”

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"A told B, and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree." In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no; Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

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Let’s Make a Palm Tree!

Recreating important images from a story give children a little memento from the story and a way to help them remember what happened!

Use the materials in your bag to help your child arrange their own palm tree! Look back through the book for examples and talk about the parts of the palm tree, such as the tall trunk, the green fronds and the round coconuts! Don’t forget to name the letters you find in your bag!

Remember that children learn best when they do and try things for themselves! Every child’s palm tree will look a little different, and seeing how your child arranges the pieces of their palm tree is part of the fun!

The Big Five ideas for this book:

Talk: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is a repeated phrase in the story. Invite your child to help you read the story by finishing the phrase with “boom boom” when they hear you say “chicka chicka.” Make it more fun by challenging them to match the tone or volume of your voice (like whispering or shouting).

Play: Whenever possible, help your child connect new information with a movement. For example, have them stomp or clap when you say “chicka chicka boom boom!” in the story!

Sing: Find the upper and lower case alphabet letters in the very first pages of the book. Touch the letters together as you sign the ABC song!

Hear the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom song here! 

Write: All artists sign their work! Encourage your child to practice writing letters by signing their name on their drawings and artwork.

real world connection

Who do we know?: We know that children learn best through experiences and their relationships. Finding a connection between new information and their lives will also help them better understand that information about their world! To help your child make a real-world connection to letters, play a game and think of someone you know for every letter in the alphabet! For example: A is for sister Amanda, B is for cousin Benny, C for our neighbor Charlie, and so on!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is an alphabet book. Alphabet books help children recognize letters and notice that letters are used in writing.

Learning the names of letters, and the sounds that they make, is one of the first steps in learning to read. However, children do not need to learn the letters of the alphabet in order, nor all at once!

Try starting with the letters your child’s name, since their name is a word with special meaning and one that they likely see often in school or at home!

Coconut. Cultivation and care | Gardener ABC

Nut-bearing coconut (Cocos nucifera) is the only representative of the genus Coconut. In nature, it reaches an impressive size, up to 30 m in height with a trunk diameter of up to 60 cm. At home, they mainly contain young specimens due to the limited size of the room. Plants above 2.5-3 m are suitable only for high greenhouses and winter gardens.

Coconut palm has large, feathery, elegantly curved leaves that form a rosette at the top. At the age of 4-6 years, a real trunk begins to form in plants, the lower leaves gradually grow old and fall off, at about 10 years of age, the palm tree begins to bear fruit, forming its famous nuts.

In nature, the coconut palm lives for 100 or more years, but in room conditions, unfortunately, it will not be a long-liver, despite the slow growth. For good health, she needs a lot of sun, an abundance of fresh air and high humidity. It is problematic to provide her with such conditions in the apartment.

Origin

The coconut palm is native to the Sunda Islands and neighboring islands of Polynesia. It spread over the islands and coasts of the tropical zone in two ways. From palm trees growing in the coastal zone, the fruits fell into the water and were carried by the current over long distances. So the plant settled on the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Another, no less important factor was human activity. It is believed that the palm tree was brought to Africa by Indian traders, to America by the Polynesians. And Spanish sailors discovered a coconut palm on the coast of Central America at the end of the 15th century.

Germination of fruits is preserved in sea water up to 110 days. During this time, they can swim up to 3000 miles, because they are perfectly adapted for such travel. The embryo in the nut is surrounded by a triple protection - covered with a hard shell, then an interweaving of rigid flexible fibers and, finally, a strong smooth outer skin. This design keeps the nut afloat and protects the embryo from hitting the stones. Purchasing

In stores, young coconut palms are most often sold in the form of sprouted nuts. When buying, make sure that the foliage is in good condition, without dry brown spots, the shoot is strong, and there is no rot at its base. Also carefully inspect the condition of the nut itself - the plant will use the nutrients from it for several more years, so it should not show signs of rot and severe drying out.

Temperature and lighting

The coconut palm is thermophilic. The optimum temperature for it is + 20-23 degrees, almost all year round. Even in winter, it should not fall below + 16-18 degrees. In the room, the plant is provided with the brightest place. In winter, lighting will be needed so that the daylight hours are at least 12 hours.

In summer, it is advisable to place the tub with the plant on the balcony or in the garden, in a place slightly shaded from the midday sun. Keeping a coconut indoors all year is not the best option, in this case, try to provide it with a constant supply of fresh air during the warm season through ventilation.

Watering and air humidity

Coconut requires regular but moderate watering with water at room temperature. The soil in the pot should always be evenly moist, without overdrying or overflowing. In winter, watering is reduced only slightly. Make sure that when watering, water does not fall directly on the nut to prevent it from rotting.

Coconut palm, accustomed to a humid tropical climate, does not tolerate dry air, the optimum humidity for it is about 70%. It is difficult to provide such an indicator in rooms. This is one of the problems with coconut content. To help the plant, there will be finely dispersed daily (and in the heat several times a day) spraying, wiping the leaves with a damp sponge, placing water containers or an air humidifier nearby.

Coconut is fed regularly, every 2-3 weeks in spring and summer, with a complex fertilizer for decorative leafy plants or specialized for palm trees. In winter, top dressing can be excluded or carried out no more than once a month and a half.

Planting

Transplant the coconut tree only in case of emergency, it can be content with a small amount of land. For young specimens, a pot in which the nut is placed is usually sufficient. But if you are going to transplant a coconut, do it in the spring and be very careful not to damage the roots.

The composition of the mixture for planting can be as follows: sand, peat, rotted manure, leaf and clay-soddy soil (1:1:1:2:2), a little charcoal. A simplified version is also suitable: turf, leaf earth, sand (2: 2: 2). The pH value can be in a wide range - 5-8.

Withstands soil solution salinity up to 3%, while other tropical plants die under such conditions. In this regard, the coconut palm has no competitors among cultivated plants.

Reproduction

Plants can be grown from nuts that germinate well in conditions of high temperature (+27-30 degrees) and high humidity (90-100%). Germination mixture - peat and sand (1: 1). The mixture is poured into a wide container and one coconut is planted horizontally, deepening by half. Germination can last up to six months, usually about 4-5 months.

Possible Problems

• Indoor palm leaves often turn brown when exposed to direct sunlight or the room is too dry. Rearrange the plant and spray it more often.
• Brown spots on the leaves may appear from regular waterlogging of the soil or from exposure to low temperatures.
• Excessive watering causes walnut rot. In this case, temporarily reduce watering and, if possible, clean the rotted areas.
• Never use polishing agents. Coconut leaves do not tolerate clogging of pores.
• Regularly inspect the condition of the leaves, nut, base of the trunk as a preventive measure in order to stop the reproduction of pests or the spread of diseases in time.

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Real coconut palms are one of the most capricious. Care at home. Photo - Botanichka

Real coconut palms, surprising in nature with gigantic sizes and a generous harvest of giant nuts, are considered not the most suitable plants for room culture. But, nevertheless, homemade coconut trees can be found in almost every flower shop, and many hobbyists even grow their own coconut trees from purchased nuts. Whichever way you get the coconut palm, you should prepare for trouble: despite its beauty, it is one of the most difficult (if not the most difficult) palm trees to grow. And only experienced and very attentive flower growers can save it, and even then only for a few years. Care for her will require not just regular, but super-careful.

Home version of the coconut

There are so many palm trees named coconut on the market today that even experienced growers can get confused. Consultants often tout Weddel coconuts, and other types of palm trees, as an indoor version of the coconut that is compact, beautiful, and hardy. But such pinnate and fan beauties have almost nothing to do with coconut palms. Most often, under the guise of coconuts, we sell lithocarias ( Lytocaryum ) (Weddel's coconut ( Lytocaryum weddellianum ) and other species of the genus) and butia ( Butia ), whose name is still found as a synonym for coconut. They are also not easy to grow palm trees, but they are very far from genuine coconut. Only one type of palm tree belongs to the genus Cocos - Cocos nucifera . It is simply impossible to confuse this palm tree with any other.

Coconut palm ( Cocos nucifera ) is not only a tropical palm, but also usually found only in coastal areas. Nut-bearing coconuts are classified as feathery palms and are quite large in size. In room conditions and even greenhouses, coconuts can grow up to only 3 meters. But since it is very difficult to keep a palm tree until adulthood, coconuts are limited to much more modest parameters. Considered a fast-growing palm, the coconut develops as a slender, bushy plant with a tall trunk and an asymmetrical crown-top of broad and unevenly pinnate leaves, the number of which in an adult palm can reach up to 35 wai.

The trunk is formed and "stretched" gradually, it has vertical cracks and rings from falling leaves, the expansion at the base is small. The slope of the trunk is determined by the growth of the walnut, it is more or less pronounced. The leaves of the coconut palm change with age. Young they are almost whole, but gradually the cuts on the leaf plates become deeper, and the wide leaves turn into pinnate and long. In indoor coconuts, the leaves are often divided into just a couple of segments. In the coconut palm, the leaf plates and their lobes, like the petioles, are very rigid. The length of the leaves is up to 2 - 3 meters. Flowering of nut-bearing coconut is impossible not only in room conditions, but also in greenhouse conditions.

Coconut palms look very attractive: the contrast between a half-buried nut, from which rises at first a slender and small, and then more and more elegant and interesting palm tree, adds to its decorative effect. Palm nuts are lost at such a significant age that it is almost impossible to wait for this in a room culture.

Coconut palm care at home

It is believed that indoor coconuts can "last" - even with very good selection of conditions and the most careful care - only 2-3 years. This palm is indeed very difficult to grow and is more likely to be planted for experimentation or if you want to test your skills. As a stable ornamental palm tree, it would be a very big mistake to buy coconut nut. Firstly, because of the sun-loving nature, it cannot be placed in the interior. And, secondly, the risk of loss is always higher than the probability of success. But if you want to try, get ready for relentless care.

Lighting for the coconut tree

The need to provide the coconut tree with very bright light throughout the year is one of the main difficulties in growing this plant. Nut-bearing coconut is not just a photophilous plant. It needs long daylight hours all year round. And the only lighting option that will suit this palm tree will be a sunny place on the southern windowsill or places with artificial lighting. In winter, lighting is welcome anywhere.

Comfortable temperature conditions

This is one of the most heat-loving palm trees, for which the minimum allowable temperatures are limited by the value of short-term drops to 16-17 degrees Celsius. Throughout the year, the coconut tree will prefer the heat over the subdued temperatures. In summer, coconut feels best at a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius, but if the indicators remain above 21 degrees, then there should be no difficulties with the selection of premises.

The coconut tree will need constant access to fresh air, regular ventilation. But it will not be so easy to carry them out with the dislike of palm trees for drafts and sudden changes in the environment.

Coconut Watering and Air Humidity

To maintain your coconut tree, you will need to keep the substrate moist. Even a single drying of an earthen coma, and even more so the lack of stable watering or prolonged drying, can lead to the rapid death of a palm tree. The soil for coconut nut must always remain moist. Allow only a few inches of soil to dry out between waterings. Coconut is afraid of excessive watering and dampness, so for this crop it will be necessary to constantly control the degree of drying of the substrate. The approximate frequency of watering is about 3 times a week in summer and once a week in winter. In summer, abundant watering can be carried out, and from autumn to spring, less water is used.

But if the difficulties with watering are well known to everyone who grows exotics and various beautiful flowering beauties, and they are almost standard for any demanding plant, then the coconut palm will surprise anyone with its intolerance to dry air. This species needs very high humidity levels - from 70% and not lower. Even a slight decrease in these values ​​leads to a loss of decorativeness. And we are talking not only about the dry tips of the leaves of the coconut palm, but the fronds themselves gradually dry out and disappear. And the lower the humidity, the faster the palm tree dies. To create optimal conditions only by spraying, you will have to carry out these procedures not only in the morning and evening, but also up to 5-6 times a day. For a coconut palm, it is better to install large pallets with wet gravel, moss or expanded clay, and even better - to maintain air humidity with special humidifiers.

Both spraying and irrigating coconut palms can only use settled, soft and warm water.

Nut Coconut Nutrition

The coconut tree needs very specific nutrition. For this plant, it is best not to use fertilizers for ornamental foliage plants or special preparations for palms, but mixtures of fertilizers for bonsai or citrus fruits. Top dressing is applied only during the period of active development with a frequency of 1 time in 2 weeks in summer and 1 time per month in winter (reducing the dose of fertilizers by 2 times). You can refuse winter dressings of the coconut palm, but then the risk of losing decorativeness increases. You can carry out top dressing according to the principle of garden plants: apply fertilizer at the beginning of spring growth, then 2-3 times in summer, and carry out the last top dressing in mid-autumn. But in this case, highly concentrated fertilizers are used, which increases the risk of death.

Coconut pruning

The coconut tree is not shaped, but it still needs periodic cleaning. Dried or damaged leaves are cut off from the plant. But at the same time, you need to be careful: you can only cut completely dry fronds, but only slightly changed color and even half-dry sheets should not be touched.

Transplanting coco and substrate

Coconut does not need frequent repotting. She is afraid of injury to the roots and reacts painfully to changing containers. If you buy an imported palm tree, then it is better to transplant it next spring into a new container (in no case before the end of the period of full adaptation to room conditions and quarantine). But the optimal frequency of transplants is 1 time in 2 years for compact and nut-preserving palm trees, and only as needed, once every 4-6 years for adults. In years when transplantation is not carried out, the top layer of the substrate must be replaced.

The substrate for growing coconut is selected from among the fibrous, coarse, but very permeable earth mixtures. Suitable ready-made substrates for palm trees. If you are preparing the soil mixture yourself, mix sand, peat, soddy soil, clay, humus and expanded clay or agroperlite in equal parts. A mixture of soddy soil with heather and sand in equal proportions is also suitable.

Coconut palms are not transplanted, but transshipped, trying to avoid even the slightest contact with the roots. You need to be especially careful when taking out the plant: any injury to the taproot, even as a result of a difficult excavation from the previous container, will be fatal. When transplanting a coconut, make sure that the nut is not completely covered: for a palm tree, the same level of deepening is observed that was in the previous container - about half the nut. But a higher planting is not as dangerous as overfilling the nut with the substrate. If a palm tree has dropped a nut, we are talking about a very old plant, then the level of deepening is still kept the same. A very high layer of drainage is laid at the bottom of the containers.

Coconut palm containers are usually taken quite large, increasing their diameter not by 2-3 cm, but by 4-6 cm, in order to eliminate the need for frequent replanting even at a young age.

Diseases and Pests of the Coconut Palm

Coconut palms are attacked indoors by 2 main "enemies" - mealybugs and various types of rot. But there are scale insects and spider mites on the palm tree, which are especially active in violation of care in terms of air humidification.

Common growing problems:

• drying tips and leaves due to improper watering or feeding;
• leaf curl during overflow or drought;
• slow growth and lack of new leaves due to improper feeding or need to repot;
• darkening and wilting of leaves in cold weather.

Coconut Palm Propagation

This is one of the most difficult palm trees to propagate and can only be obtained from seeds. But that hasn't stopped many from trying to grow their own coconut tree.

Only mature, ripe and fresh coconuts are used for cultivation.

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