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Read.Explore.Learn.- Retelling The Five Little Ducklings Activities

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Welcome to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explore the book 5 Little Ducks.

  • My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

5 Little Ducks by Denise Fleming

 
We have been reading a lot of the animal books that are being featured on MemeTales: Readathon 2012 this week. The one we focused on was The Five Little Ducklings.
The ducklings in this story one at a time keep heading away from home even with Mama Duck quacking they should return.
JDaniel and I did four retelling activities to go along with this book. We usually do a variety of different types of activities with a book, but different ways to retell the story kept jumping into our heads.
Retelling Activity One: Furniture Retelling
 
 
JDaniel decided that this chair on the deck would be a great place for the ducks to climb away from the mama duck. The ducks tucked easily into the various crevices in the chair. Notice the mama duck is at the bottom watching over them.
Retelling Activity Two: Water Table Retelling
 
 5 Little Ducks in a Water Table
 
We put the ducks into JDaniel’s water table. The section divider made a great hill for the ducks to cross as they went on their way.
Retelling Activity Three- Painted Ducks on a Cooling Rack
 five Little Ducks Retelling Activity

 
We painted some paper ducks and put them on clothespins. The clothes pinned ducks were then put on a cookie cooling rack.
We were able to move the ducks around the cooling rack as they went away and came back.

Retelling Activity Four- Pom Pom Ducks

 Five Little Ducks - Moving Poms Poms with Clothes Pins



The pom poms had been taken out for a different activity, but JDaniel thought they would be great to use with a clothes pin to retell the story.

He simply picked up a pom pom to represent a duck in the story and moved him far away.

Next week we will be looking at the MemeTales featured books on friendship.

Disclaimer: I am being given the MemeTales: Readathon 2012 featured books for free in exchange for providing a post about them. We are really enjoying them.

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  10. I’ve always loved the idea of water tables. Its so relaxing and soothing for children.

  14. I’ve never seen a cooling rack prop story. I’m adding that idea to my librarian bag of tricks!

  16. Thats such a clever way to embed a story, retelling in different scenarios. I like the pompom ducks.

  17. We just added rubber ducks to the swimming pool the other day. C was so happy fun idea for this story.

  18. Oooh the peg activity is CLEVER! Brilliant for fine motor skills and “finger strength”.

  20. I love these ideas. Did you see my five duck post? It is very similar. That is so cute that JDaniel wanted to pretend the pom poms are ducks. He is learning from you!

  21. ooh, i like those ideas. We’ve not done retelling in the water table before and i bet that would be enjoyed immensely! 🙂

  23. You always come up with the best activities! I love the ducks on the cooling rack idea.

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