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

Farfallina & Marcel by Holly Keller

In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming

Ribbit! by Rodrigo Folgueira

Bee Frog by Martin Waddell

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 Real Boat by Marina Aromshtam

Fun With Fingerplays and Songs

If You Want to Be… (Tune: "If 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!

Repeat:

Duck/shake your tail Goose/honk your horn Fish/swim real fast Turtle/walk very slow

Baby Frogs (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)

Dear Parents and Caregivers: Our Toddler and Preschool storytimes celebrate the diversity of people, places, and more through books, fingerplays, and other materials. Please continue helping your child develop a love for the world around them and a love for books and reading by sharing these rhymes, books, and other activities with your child. To learn more about our Storytime Values, please see https://read.poudrelibraries.org/kids/storytime.cfm .

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Updated 12/13

Other Fun Things

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 Put paper lily pads on the floor and have your child jump from lily pad to lily pad. You can also put a dif-ferent 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.

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)

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!

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 Honks….so loudly Waddles…in a circle Honks…so softly Waddles….backwards

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.

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Updated 12/19