Duck, Duck, Puffin (Puffin?)

I think it would have been nice to spend a whole week on Birds That Live In The Water and Salt vs. Fresh, and then spend a whole week to do shells unto themselves... but, unfortunately, we didn't have time in this unit. But here are some extra duck ideas I wanted to pass along (and a puffin book, thrown in for good measure).

Favorite Duck Books:
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson
The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
Nora's Duck by Satomi Ichikawa
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter
The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton W. Burgess
Duckat by Gaelyn Gordon

And A Puffin Book:
There Once Was a Puffin by Florence Page Jacques


A nice handwork project to go along with this could be the moving picture of ducks and fishes on page 21 of The Children's Year.

For songs, of course, you have "Six Little Ducks" and "Five Little Ducks". These can be found in standard collections of children's music. I like 101 Toddler Favorites by Music for Little People -- it has a LOT of music on a 4 CD set, including both these songs, and they worked hard to include many different musical genres. It is a lot of fun to listen to.


Six Little Ducks

Six little ducks
That I once knew
Fat ones, skinny ones,
Fair ones, too
But the one little duck
With the feather on his back
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack
Quack, quack, quack,
Quack, quack, quack
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack.

Down to the river
They would go
Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble,
To and fro
But the one little duck
With the feather on his back
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack
Quack, quack, quack,
Quack, quack, quack
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack.

Back from the river
They would come
Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble,
Ho, hum, hum
But the one little duck
With the feather on his back
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack
Quack, quack, quack,
Quack, quack, quack
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack.

Into the water they would dive
Over and under the other five
But the one little duck
With the feather on his back
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack.

Home from the river they would go
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble,
Ho hum hum
But the one little duck
With the feather on his back
He led the others
With a quack, quack, quack.


Five Little Ducks

Five little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"
But only four little ducks came back.

Four little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"
But only three little ducks came back.

Three little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"
But only two little ducks came back.

Two little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"
But only one little duck came back.

One little duck went out one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack!"
And none of the five little ducks came back.