Five Little Ducks (Preschool)

Introduction

Each group of children will be using duck puppets or flannel board figures attached to their body to act out the story of the five little ducks, the remaining students in the audience will still perform but with fingers and hand gestures to support the acting classmates. During so the learning objectives focused ,will be language and literacy, mathematical thinking social and emotional, physical development and creative expression through the arts of music.

Five Little Ducks: Printable Puppets ...

Task

Divided into separate groups of six based off of classroom ratio the students will act out a play for their teacher and their peers to the song Five Little Ducks.

Peers in the audience will do the fingerplay version to help support their friends. The students can move freely according to the order of the song displaying their own creativity as they act out the play.

Process

Singing along to the song: Five Little ducks 

Visual aid link :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZw9veQ76fo

1.separate class into groups of six based off of ratio

2. assign each child to be a duckling, including one for the mother(the role can be also played as a father , sister or brother for added fun)

3.The children are too use their bodies to show quantity by removing and adding themselves as the song plays mimicking the (running and waddling)over the hill and far away as they perform for the peers that are seated.

4.surrounding student audience are to participate by using their hand motions for going over the hill and far away also holding up five fingers and removing each time a duckling disappears going over and away.

Evaluation

The rubric for this will be displayed by using a color scale for each learning objective each will contain the colors, green, red and yellow, each indicating their own meaning

Green being that the child is thriving at the task displays confidence and their own level of creativity

Red being that the child is practicing the skills of these objectives and is being persistent and displaying effort or growth

Yellow being that the child is not yet ready to perform at the level anticipated for the created activity.

The open bar below is left blank for notes taken to express things that were observed to help the teacher with the child's progress in these areas during activities and also to mark the space in which the child is currently displaying progress. this rubric should be created for each objective of the activity and each student that participated

example:

Color Grading Scale for Language and Literacy

Yellow Red Green
The child is not yet ready to perform at the level anticipated for the creative activity The child is practicing the skills of these objectives and is being persistent in displaying effort or growth The child is thriving at the task displayed and is showing confidence in their own level of creativity

 

 

   

 

 

Conclusion

Learning these specific skills increase the children’s ability to interact positively with peers and adults. Giving them the confidence they need to successfully thrive and be present in the development of their learning skills.

For the five little ducks there are many activities that can be done but today we combined a few of those concepts as we practiced

 Language and literacy by singing along using listening and understanding, speaking and vocabulary enhancement

Our  mathematical thinking by subtracting the ducklings

Physical development by moving our bodies exercising gross motor and fine motor abilities

Social emotional developing the trait of encouragement building and maintaining relationships

Creative expression by creative arts through music showing off moves during the performance and group coordination

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