Duck, Duck, Read!

This week in Storytime...

Baby duck! Squee!

One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root

Poor Duck gets stuck in the muck of a marsh! A succession of animals come to help unstick Duck, but they must work together to succeed. Chock full of counting, clever onomatopoeia, and rhyme.

Little White Duck by Walt Whippo

I sang (yikes!) The Little White Duck. It's really silly and the kids get a kick out of it. I promise - from experience - that they really don't care what your voice sounds like. Singing keeps the attention of young ones and you can encourage everyone to sing along with you. [Early Lit Tip: Singing slows down pronunciation and helps children hear different syllables and sounds in words.] Hear Burl Ives sing it here: The Little White Duck. Unfortunately, the book is out of print. *Sadface* But! You can look for it at your local library! Or if you are feeling like a project, you can make your own felt board characters. 

If you don't think you know who Burl Ives is, you totally do. Promise.

Five Little Ducks 

"Five Little Ducks" is a classic children's song you probably remember from Raffi. I use this cool velcro doodad, along with hand movements (watch the Mr. Mike video mentioned below). The children sing along and do the motions too.

Mr. Mike can be a little cheesy, but kids love cheese. (Real Talk: Who doesn't love cheese?) Mike's was by far the best video I could find that demonstrates the hand movements: Five Little Ducks. [You can find the lyrics at the end of the post!]

Hide-and-Seek Duck by Cyndy Szekeres

Duck is playing hide-and-seek with Little Bunny! This book is full of darling illustrations and woodland creatures. You can make it interactive by having the children try to find Little Bunny in each picture.

Other books to share...

Happy Hippo, Angry Duck: A Book of Moods by Sandra Boynton

Ducking for Apples by Lynne Berry

Duck on a Bike by David Shannon

Fix-It Duck by Jez Alborough

Duck Sock Hop by Jane Kohuth

Have You Seen Duck? by Janet A. Holmes

Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri

In the Rain with Baby Duck by Amy Hest

Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Five Little Ducks

Five little ducks went out one day,

Over the hills and far away,

Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"

But only four little ducks came back.

Four little ducks went out one day,

Over the hills and far away,

Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"

But only three little ducks came back.

Three little ducks went out one day,

Over the hills and far away,

Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"

But only two little ducks came back.

Two little ducks went out one day,

Over the hills and far away,

Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"

But only one little duck came back.

One little duck went out one day,

Over the hills and far away,

Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"

But none of her little ducks came back.

Sad Mother Duck went out one day,

Over the hills and far away,

Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"

And all her sweet little ducks came back!