1. HAVE FUN WITH BOOKS
Can you and your child retell what happened in one of these stories:
Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic © 2008
Mr. Duck Means Business by Tammi Sauer © 2011
Duck on a Bike by David Shannon © 2002
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey © 1941 ~~ Caldecott Award Book ~~
2. NOTICE PRINT ALL AROUND YOU
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3. TALK, TALK, TALK
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4. TELL STORIES ABOUT EVERYTHING
[see video below] Follow the flight path that Mr and Mrs Mallord take in Make Way for Ducklings with this Google Earth video.
5. LOOK FOR LETTERS EVERYWHERE
Try some fun alphabet activities from the Johnson County Library's Youth Services Pinterest page.
6. TAKE TIME TO RHYME, SING AND PLAY WORD GAMES
Here are the rhymes and songs from today:
Welcome To Storytime! [tune: "Twinkle, Twinkle" ]
Welcome, welcome everyone,
Now we're here, let's have some fun.
First we'll sing the ABC's,
then we'll read and sing with me.
Welcome, welcome, everyone,
Now we're here let's have some fun.
Six Little Ducks
Six little ducks, that I once knew,
Fat ones, skinny ones, fair ones too.
But the one little duck with the feather on his back.
He led the others, with a quack, quack, quack.
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.
He led the others with a quack, quack , quack.
Down to the river, they would go,
Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble, to and fro
But the one little duck with the feather on his back....
Back from the river they would come,
Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble, to and fro
But the one little duck with the feather on his back...
The Little Ducklings by Elizabeth Vollrath
All the little ducklings line up in a row.
Quack, quack, quack, and away they go.
They follow their mother waddling to and fro.
Quack, quack, quack, and away they go.
Down to the big pond happy as can be.
Quack, quack, quack, they are full of glee.
They jump in the water and bob up and down.
Quack, quack, quack, they swim all around.
All the little ducklings swimming far away.
Quack, quack, quack, they'll play another day.
Have You Ever Seen a Duckling? [tune: "Did you ever seen a Lassie" ]
Have you ever seen a duckling?
A duckling, a duckling!
Have you ever seen a duckling swim this way and that?
Swim this way and that way, and this way and that way?
Have you ever seen a duckling swim this way and that?
Have you ever seen a duckling? A duckling, a duckling!
Have you ever seen a duckling waddle this way and that way?
Waddle this way and that way, and this way and that way?
Have you wever seen a duckling waddle this way and that?
The More We Read Together [Tune: "The More We Get Together" ]
The more we read together, together, together,
The more we read together, the better it is!
'Cause reading and singing and talking together,
Is how you learn the six skills for reading by six.