I gathered all the materials and then let my children build the ocean scene from the book 10 Little Rubber Ducks together. We made this sensory water/beach container to demonstrate the ducks washing up onshore. This water activity was so much fun to create, play, and clean up with my kids. Water Activity After Reading 10 Little Rubber Ducks

The book had descriptive verbs that would be fun for your child to act out from the book we tried acting out the words drift, float, bobbing, blinks, screeches, glides, and chatters. The words used include up/down, left/right, north/south, east/west, and water/sky. The book uses directionality on most of the pages. This book leads its self well to math skill practice during and after reading the book.ġ0 Little Rubber Ducks allows your child to explore counting while looking at illustrations. The inside cover shows how Eric Carle wrote this story from a real-life story of a cargo ship dropping toys, including rubber ducks, in the ocean by accident.

BOOK DESCRIPTION for 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle Skills: Numerical values 1-10, directionality, counting 1-10 Ages: Baby- 5yrs We read multiple counting books related to the ocean, so we decided after reading 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle that this was the day to create our own ocean water play to practice counting. Creating hands-on learning for my children has become more fun with adding water play to the activity.

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