QUACK!
/Looking through my own files while planning storytime themes for the spring, I realized that I had never done a duck storytime. I'm actually really shocked because Duck in the Truck is probably one of my favorite books to read out loud EVER. So without further ado - DUCKS: the storytime.
BOOKS:
We read Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough and Duck at the Door by Jackie Urbanovic.
Both of these are wonderful storytime books. Duck in the Truck is fun because of the rhyming, the illustrations and al of the different animals. Duck at the Door has some wonderful tongue-in-cheek humor for parents in the illustrations and the whole idea of a duck who skips migration to hang out in a house is fun to explore.
FINGERPLAY:
We sang and acted out "5 Little Ducks." This just brings me back to my childhood. :D
5 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!
SONG:
What kind of duck storytime do you think this would be without RUBBER DUCKIES!?
CRAFT:
We made duck fingerpuppets! The original post that I saw on Pinterest had the wings of the ducks made out of green muffin papers, but I was too lazy and too cheap to go out and get some of those so we used feathers instead and I think they turned out even cuter with the feathers.