Dear Parents:
Today we used some of these books, fingerplays, and
other materials in our toddler and preschool storytimes .
Please continue helping your child develop a love for
books and reading by sharing these rhymes, books, and
other activities with your child.
Books To Share
Lucky Ducklings by Eva Moore
Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri
The Frogs and Toads All Sang by Arnold Lobel
Fish Is Fish by Leo Lionni
Fun With Fingerplays and Songs
If You Want to Be…
(Tune: I"f You're Happy and You Know It")
If you want to be a frog, jump up high!
If you want to be a frog, jump up high!
If you want to be a frog, if you want to be a frog,
If you want to be a frog, jump up high!
Jump up high!
Ribbit! by Rodrigo Folgueira
Repeat:
Duck/shake your tail
Goose/honk your horn
Fish/swim real fast
Turtle/walk very slow
Bee Frog by Martin Waddell
Baby Frogs
Farfallina & Marcel by Holly Keller
In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
999 Tadpoles by Ken Kimura
Scoot! by Cathryn Falwell
Dimity Duck by Jane Yolen
Down by the Cool of the Pool
by Tony Mitton
Little Quack’s New Friend
by Lauren Thompson
Make Way For Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
The Bog Baby
by Jeanne Willis
(Use your fingers to represent the frogs.)
“Ribbit, ribbit,” said mama frog,
Sitting on a great big log.
“Where are my babies? Where can they be?”
Then out of the pond jumped 1, 2, 3.
She was happy as can be.
But where were the others she couldn’t see?
So “Ribbit, ribbit,” she called out again.
Then out jumped 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
I Am a Little Duck
I am a little duck and I go, “Quack, Quack, Quack.”
(flap arms and quack)
And I wiggle my tail in the back, back, back.
(wiggle your tail)
I swim in the water and go, “Quack, Quack, Quack.”
(paddle with hands)
And I wiggle my tail in the back, back, back.
(wiggle your tail)
Other Fun Things
Little Duck
Little duck swimming to and fro,
(Bend elbow & wrist forming hand into duck head)
Sees a fish and down he goes;
(Drop hand to side)
Eats that fish for a morning snack
(Make fingers chew)
And up he comes with a “Quack, quack, quack!”
(Raise arm to original position, move fingers in a
quacking motion)
Feed the Duck
You’ll need: small box, duck cutout with open mouth,
glue, scissors, goldfish crackers, tweezers
Directions: Glue the duck cutout to outside of box lid.
Cut a circle about the size of a penny by the ducks
mouth. Use the tweezers to pick up the goldfish and
“feed the duck.”
Lily Pads
Five Little Toadies
One little toadie goes – HOP!
Along comes another and they just can’t stop.
So… Two little toadies go – HOP! HOP!
Along comes another and they just can’t stop.
So… Three little toadies go HOP! HOP! HOP!
Along comes another and they just can’t stop.
So… Four little toadies go – HOP! HOP! HOP! HOP!
Along comes another and they just can’t stop.
So… Five little toadies go –
HOP! HOP! HOP! HOP! HOP!
DROP!
Time to stop!
Put paper lily pads on the floor and have your child
jump from lily pad to lily pad. You can also put a different letter (or number or color) on each lily pad and
when you call out a letter, they jump to that letter.
Freddie the Frog
Use a box for the pond and a beanbag for
Freddie the Frog.
Chant: “Freddie the Frog went to jump on a log
And SPLASH he fell into the pond.”
On the word “SPLASH” have your child throw the
beanbag into the box.
Did You Ever See a Goose?
(Tune: “Did You Ever See a Lassie?”)
Did you ever see a goose, a goose, a goose,
Did you ever see a goose that waddles so slow?
He waddles and waddles and waddles and waddles…
Did you ever see a goose that waddles so slow?
Additional verses:
Waddles…so fast
Waddles…in a circle
Waddles….backwards
Honks….so loudly
Honks…so softly
I Wish I Was a Fishy in the Pond
(Tune: “If You're Happy and You Know It”)
Oh, I wish I was a fishy in the pond,
Oh, I wish I was a fishy in the pond,
I'd swim around down there.
Without my underwear.
Oh, I wish I was a fishy in the pond.
Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library®
Learning to read begins before your child starts school.
Help your children develop early literacy skills now; this makes it
easier for children to learn to read once they begin school.
Five of the best ways to help your child get ready to read are:
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Talking
Singing
Reading
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Writing
Playing
If you would like more information, please ask the staff in the
children’s area.
Every Child Ready to Read® is a project of the Association for Library Service to
Children and the Public Library Association, divisions of the American Library
Association.
Updated 12/13
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