Story Time Review

I Can Quack like that!

This week for our Story Time classes we read about ducks. We read Clumsy Duck by Britta Teckentrup, Duck to the Rescue by John Himmelman, It's Quacking Time by Martin Waddell, 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle, The Fuzzy Duckling by Jane Watson and Ducks don't Wear Socks by John Nedwidek. I made flannel board pieces to tell the Ducks don't Wear Socks story. This book is a simple story about all the silly things a duck wears to try and make a serious girl smile. In the end she turns the tables on him and makes duck laugh by dressing up like a duck. I like this story because the duck is a mallard and gives the children a chance to see a different type of duck. They are not all just fuzzy and yellow.

Ducks Don't Wear Socks Flannel Board

We sang 5 Little Ducks with some stick puppets and sang Little Duckie Duddle by Carole Peterson from her CD Tiny Tunes. We played a game called Do like a duck does. I had several rubber ducks of different colors on the board and as we said the poem we would take down each duck and do the action. The poem is:
I am a little yellow duck,
as happy as can be.
You can be my special friend
If you talk like me!

Rubber Duck Poem/Flannel Board 

For each duck we changed the color and the action, we swam, walked, shook our tail feathers, and flapped our wings. It was a great wiggle activity and went well with the 10 Rubber Ducks story.

For our craft we made a duck from a paper plate, some feathers, and some construction paper feet, beak and head. Simple and cute glue activity. For our take home pages, I sent home a set of five little ducks for the children to color, so they could sing the 5 little ducks song at home and a maze titled  "Help the duck find the pond".

5 Little Ducks song puppets

    Next Week: Bunny Rabbits
    Michele Schumann, Children's Librarian

Paper plate duck craft

Storytime Review

It's Raining & Pouring @ the Library!

We began our storyhour this week with a fun game of balloon volleyball. Each mom blew up a balloon for their child and tossed or bounced it across the yarn I had strung up between two poles as a net. The children loved the balloons and playing with their mom.

This week our theme was about rain and wind. We read A Rainy Day by Lola Schafaer, Raindrop Plop! by Wendy Lewison, I face the Wind by Vicki Cobb, Who likes Rain? by Wong Herbert Lee, and Puddles by Jonathan Londan. After reading about wind in Vicki Cobb's book we experimented with making the "wind" with a blow dryer. We moved a balloon, feather, paper towel, hair, paper cup, styrofoam ball and a leaf. We weren't as successful moving things like rocks. It was fun to watch the kids as the items blew around the room and we talked about how strong the wind is.

We did the baby ducky countdown from the Sticky bubble gum CD by Carole Peterson and waddled like ducks. We sang It's Raining, it's Pouring and water color painted a picture of a child with an umbrella. My favorite activity of the entire class was when we listened to the CD Sounds of Water. The children tried to guess what type of water we were listening to. The ocean, babbling brook, rowboat on a lake, and rainstorm are the four tracks featured on the CD. I left the track playing rainstorm while we read one of the books and it added to the atomosphere of falling, dripping wet rainy stories.

Next weeks theme: Springtime (Iwill be optimistic that the weather will cooperate!)

Michele, Children's Librarian