NOVEMBER Book Babies + Toddler Time: Duck, Duck, Goose
NOVEMBER Book Babies + Toddler Time: Duck, Duck, Goose
“Play is serious business when it comes to a child’s health and development. From peek-a-boo to pat-a-cake and hide-and-seek to hopscotch, the many forms of play enrich a child’s brain, body and life in important ways.” HealthyChildren.org. When reading books with your child, don’t forget to incorporate “play time”, too. A simple game like Duck, Duck, Goose or even Peek-a-Boo will help your child develop needed social, emotional, and physical skills.
Book Babies: Wednesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 0 – 10 months
Toddler Time: Monday & Tuesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 11 – 23 months
Welcome Songs
Here We Are Together
Here we are together, together, together! Oh, here we are together in our library. There’s (sing names)… Here we are together in our library!
Hello Everybody
Hello everybody let’s clap our hands*, clap our hands, clap our hands. Hello everybody let’s clap our hands today! *pat our head, stretch up high, wiggle our fingers, tickle our knees, kick our feet, bounce up high!
S, T, R, W, P
(Sing while pointing to each finger on your child’s hand.) Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play each day!
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
TIP
“More than just a chance to have fun, play is serious business when it comes to a child’s health and development. From peek-a-boo to pat-a-cake and hide-and-seek to hopscotch, the many forms of play enrich a child’s brain, body and life in important ways.” – The Power of Play: How Fun and Games Help Children Thrive – HealthyChildren.org
Toddler Activity
Organize/attend a parent-supervised playdate with children similar in age to your child. Play some simple games together which might involve taking turns such as Duck, Duck Goose, Roll the Round Ball Down to Town, or Red Rover.
Baby Activity
Play peek-a-boo. This reinforces object permanence, the idea that something still exists even if you can see it. You’ll know your baby gets the idea if you hide a toy under a blanket and they go looking for it.
Books Presented
Duddle Puck: The Puddle Duck by Karma Wilson
Do Like the Duck Does! by Judy Hindley
Silly Suzy Goose by Petr Horáček
Tickle the Duck! by Ethan Long
In this hilarious touch-and-feel book, a cranky duck dares children to tickle his soft stomach, his hairy armpit, his rubbery foot-and reacts uproariously each time. Despite his protests, does the duck really like being tickled after all? This modern day version of Pat the Bunny will have its audience laughing, and maybe even snorting, -Do it again!
Five Little Ducks by Teri Weidner
Duck, Duck, Goose by Tad Hills
Five Little Ducks: Sing Along with Me! by Yu-Hsuan Huang
Ollie's Hug by Olivier Dunrea
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Bouncy, Bouncy Baby
Bouncy, bouncy baby. Bouncy, bouncy baby
Up and down, up and down.
Bouncy, bouncy baby.
Hippity hop little one. hippity hop little one
Back and forth, back and forth.
Hippity hop, little one.
Bippity bop, baby. Bippity bop, baby
Jiggity, joggity, jiggity, joggity
Bouncy, bouncy…BOOM!
Source: The Pawling Library
Run Little Ducks*
Run, little duck, run like a flash, (run in place)
Jump in the water with a splash, splash, splash! (clap three times)
Paddle your feet all around,
Waddle on home when you hear this sound!
Quack, quack, quack!
*Goose
Source: Toddle On Over by Robin Works Davis
Little Duck, Little Duck
Little duck, little duck,
Are you under the _______ truck?
Goosey Goosey Gander
Goosey goosey gander,
Where did you wander?
Upstairs? Downstairs?
Or in the _________ chair?
Five Little Ducks
Five little ducks
Went out to play
Over the hill and far away
When the Mother duck said
“Quack, quack, quack.”
Four little ducks came waddling back.
Four little ducks…
Three little ducks…
Two little ducks…
One little duck…
No little ducks came waddling back.
But when Daddy duck said,
“Quack, quack, quack!”
Five little ducks came waddling back.
Zip Zip Zip
(tune: Wheels on the Bus)
Zip, Zip, Zip, off it goes!
I see baby without clothes.
Zip, zip, zip, oh what do I see?
Diaper’s on in one, two, three!
Source: Games to Play with Babies by Jackie Silberg
Where is Baby?
Tune: Frere Jacques
Where is baby? Where is baby?
(Hold scarf in front of your face.)
There he is! There he is!
(Remove scarf quickly.)
I’m so glad to see you.
I’m so glad to see you.
Peek-a-boo!
Peek-a-boo!
Peek a boo, peek a boo
Peek a boo, peek a boo
I see you, I see you
I see your button nose, I see your tiny toes
I see you, peek a boo
Source: Jbrary
