Ducks two times at two different libraries. Two newish books I wanted to use for the theme. I did Seven Little Ducklings at both of the family storytimes. It is such an adorable book...but the kids were just too young to really "get it". And on some of the pages the illustrations of kind of small. Duck, Duck, Goose (by John Hare) is also very fun, but geared more towards preschoolers.
Books
by Annette LeBlanc Cate
Splish, Splash, Ducky!
by Lucy Cousins
Ducks!
by Deborah Underwood; illustrated by T.L. McBeth
Songs and Movement
Hello, Hello!
Put Your Hands Up
(tune: Do Your Ears Hang Low?)
Put your hands up high
Put your hands down low
Put your hands in the middle
And wiggle them so
Put your elbows in front
Put your elbows in bakc
Put your elbows in the middle
And quack, quack, quack!
I Have a Little Duck
(tune: Wheels on the Bus)
I have a little duck that goes quack, quack, quack
Quack, quack, quack
Quack, quack, quack
I have a little duck that goes quack, quack, quack
All day long!
Bobs up and down
Splash
Waddle
Are You Sleeping?
When I asked for children what other animals we should do one said, "Moose!" I asked what the moose would do. The child didn't know. Then another child said, "A fox!" What will the fox do? "Kill a chicken and eat it!" We did the moose first and just held up our hands on our head for antlers and said moose, moose, moose. I had pulled myself together by then and we did the fox, but the fox just "ate, ate, ate".
My Hands Say Let's Play
Flannel
adapted from Mem Fox
I love the book, but I didn't really enjoy doing it as a flannel.
Activity
It was our first really nice day of spring, so we played with plastic ducks in water on the patio!
