We’re quacking up over here at Explorastory!!!! Because we talked about ducks this week, of course!
Books:
Do Like a Duck Does by Judy Hindley
Five Little Ducks by Ivan Bates
Just Ducky by Kathy Mallat
Click Here to Find These Books and more on the Heights Library Catalog
Rhymes and Fingerplays:
Quack, Quack
Now I’m up
Now I’m down
See me waddle all around
Put my hands behind my back
Like a duck I’ll say “quack quack”
Two Little Ducks
Two little ducks sitting on a hill
One named Jack, one named Jill
Fly away Jack, fly away Jill
Come back Jack, come back Jill
Little Duck
I am a little duck that goes quack, quack, quack
And I’ve got lots of feathers on my back, back, back
And when I go down to the lake
I wiggle and I wobble and I shake, shake, shake
And when I go to sleep at night
I close my eyes so very tight
But in the morning when I wake
I wiggle and I wobble and I shake, shake, shake
Funny Ducks
This funny duck went waddle, waddle, waddle
This funny duck went paddle, paddle, paddle
This funny duck went quack, quack, quack
This funny duck wiggled its tail in the back
And this funny duck, the very last
Jumped in the water and went splash, splash, splash
Art:
We made simple ducks using yellow, orange, and blue paper. The blue paper served as our background. We used the yellow to make our ducks. The ducks were made of simple shapes: a circle for the head, a half circle for the body, and a smaller half circle for the wing. I found a template for the shapes at http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/animals/farm/shape-duck.asp, but you can also just create your own shapes. We used the orange paper to cut out triangles for the ducks’ beaks.
We put our ducks together and glued them onto the blue paper. Children were encouraged to make as many ducks as they liked, in various sizes. We then decorated our ducks with google eyes, feathers, and markers.
We completed our project by drawing a peaceful and picturesque scene around our ducks.