Ducks Storytime

 Ducks Theme Storytime

 TALK:
Show pictures of ducks or use duck puppet. Talk about colors of ducks. the sound they make. Let kids know you will be exploring ducks during our stories today!

BOOKS: 

Truck Full of Ducks By Ross Burach  
One Duck Stuck By Phyllis Root
10 Little Rubber ducks By Eric Carle 
Duck Rabbit! By Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Little Quack By Lauren Thompson 
Goodnight My Duckling By Nancy Tafuri
Quack and Count By Keith Baker 

MUSIC:
If your happy and you know it – (clap hands, stomp feet, shout hooray)
 
# 13 on green disc Shake My sillies out By Raffi Songs for the Very Young CD
 
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (use Egg Shakers) (toddler and preschool)
 
#8 Silly Dance Contest Jim Gill Yellow CD use with colorful scarves  they can shake along to the music
 
Head and Shoulders knee and toes
Hands Up, Hands Down
(Use this rhyme to get the group's attention. You can repeat the first stanza as many times as necessary)
Put your hands up
Put your hands down
Give your hands a clap
Put your hands up
Put your hands down
Set them in your lap.
FIVE LITTLE DUCKS 
Five little ducks went swimming one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said, "Quack, Quack, Quack"
But only four little ducks came back
One, two, three
Four little ducks went swimming one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said, "Quack, Quack, Quack"
But only three little ducks came back
One, two
Three little ducks went swimming one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said, "Quack, Quack, Quack"
But only two little ducks came back
One
Two little ducks went swimming one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said, "Quack, Quack, Quack"
But only one little duck came back
One little duck went swimming one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said, "Quack, Quack, Quack"
But no little ducks came swimming back
Sad mother duck went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Sad mother Duck said, "Quack, Quack, Quack"
And all the five little ducks came back

Below Songs and Rhymes Found on Preschool Express.com

OLD MAC DONALD HAD A FARM Tune:  “Old Mac Donald” Old Mac Donald had a farm, E,I,E,I,O. And on this farm he had some ducks, E,I,E,I, O. With a quack, quack, here And a quack, quack, there. Here a quack, there a quack. Everywhere a quack, quack. Old Mac Donald had a farm E,I,E,I,O.                         Traditional

DOWN AT THE POND Tune:  “Down At The Station” Down at the pond Early in the morning. See the little ducklings Swimming in a row. See the mother duck Dive for her breakfast. Up, down, up, down Watch her head go! Down at the pond Early in the morning. See the little ducklings Swimming in a row. See the mother duck Flap her wings just so. Up she flys Her ducklings in tow!                         Jean Warren

FIVE LITTLE DUCKS Five little ducks, that I once knew, Fat were three and skinny were two. But the big mother duck with feathers on her back, She ruled the ducklings with a quack, quack, quack. Down to the water, they would go, Waddle, waddle, waddle, to and fro. But the big mother duck with feathers on her back, She ruled the ducklings with a quack, quack, quack. They swam around, here and there. They bobbed for food, everywhere. But the big mother duck with feathers on her back, She ruled the ducklings with a quack, quack, quack.                                     Adapted Traditional