Ducks

Today we read one of my all time favorite stories One Duck Stuck.  "Splish, clomp, pleep, plop, plunk, sloosh, slosh, slink, zing."  When, "Down by the marsh, by the sleepy, slimy marsh, one duck gets stuck in the muck," who comes to the rescue? Two fish, splishing, for starters. Then three moose clomping, four crickets pleeping, and so on. Still, "No luck. Still stuck." It takes a whole lot of teamwork to get this particular stuck duck unstuck from the muck.
At an independent center today the children followed a set of directions to make a duck puppet of their own.  Now until the end of the school year it is my goal to prepare the children for kindergarten.  In kindergarten they are going to have to follow multiple step directions and complete tasks independently.  The children did an outstanding job with this today!  The children will use the puppet that they made to retell the story One Duck Stuck tomorrow.

At my center the children were given the outline of a pond to cut around.  I then placed a pile of white and yellow ducks in front of them.  I told them they needed to take some of each color to make a total of five ducks.  Once they had five they cut them out and glued them on their pond.  They then filled in an addition sentence _____ + ______ = _________ .  Some of the children had four white ducks and one yellow to make five.  Some had two white and three yellow to make five, while others had three white and two yellow to make five.