March 15-27: Pond and Ducks

I'm going to be doing the pond/duck theme for 2 weeks because I have so many ideas to go with it that I can't fit it all into just 1 week. :)

Books: Little White Duck by Walt Whippo, Over In the Meadow by Ezra Jack Keats, Turtle Splash: Countdown at the Pond, Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni, 5 Little Ducks Little Scholastic and/or Raffi, Down By the Cool of the Pool by Tony Mitton, In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Flemming, The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

Songs:
5 Little Ducks (words with printable sheet)
5 Green and Speckled Frogs (words)

* both of these songs also make great activities for magnet, felt board or glove puppets

Vocabulary: duck, fish

Art activities:
*feather painting
*turtle mobile
*turtle bowl craft
*paper plate duck
*thumb print ducks
*rainbow fish
*frog puppet
*duck nests

Other activities and games:
*eggs and nest number game
*lily pad jump
*cardboard box turtle
*water table pond
*frog food
*flies on a log

Printables and other resources:
Who lives in the pond printable book by scholastic
Little White Duck Printables
Frog Themed Printables

****TUESDAY ST. PATTY'S DAY ACTIVITIES: (now that I actually have the right week!)

Art Project:
Handprint shamrocks

Other Activities/Printables:
M & M rainbow sorting activity
Printable book by Scholastic
Shamrock Alphabet Match
Shamrock/Gold Coin Hunt