Five Little Ducks
Children will love to sing and dance along with this fun Animal song!
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Five Little Ducks Lyrics
Five little ducks went swimming one day.
Over the pond and far away.
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack"
but only four little ducks came back.
Four little ducks went swimming one day.
Over the pond and far away.
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack"
but only three little ducks came back.
Three little ducks went swimming one day.
Over the pond and far away.
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack"
but only two little ducks came back.
Two little ducks went swimming one day.
Over the pond and far away.
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack"
but only one little duck came back.
One little duck went swimming one day.
Over the pond and far away.
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack"
but no little ducks came back.
Mother duck said
"Quack, quack, quack"
and all of the five little ducks came back.
Five Little Ducks Learning Activities
Music
- The dynamics of the song is the varying levels of loudness or softness. Ask children to listen to the song. In which verse does the mother's quack become loud?
- Choose a conductor - when the conductor raises their arms the children sing loud, when the arms are out in front the children sing in a normal voice, when the conductor's arms are down low the children sing softly.
Visual Art
- Make finger puppets to match the song.
Drama
- Give a performance acting out the words of the song with a cast of mother duck and 5 ducklings.
- Children view the video song on YouTube and compare the actions with their own ideas.
Maths
- Count backwards from 5. Ask what number comes before 5? 4 What number comes before 3? 2
Literacy
- Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning "Do it, see it and hear it!"
Print out the song PDF
- Read the song lyrics - ask children a variety of questions.
- Re-read the song lyrics and ask children to join in.
- Recognise and use a variety of punctuation when reading. " " ! ? . ,
- Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
- Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
- Word study - phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming word, contractions etc.
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