Theme Notes Series 229: Ducks Page 1 of 12 Ducks Young children love playing with and looking at animals and this week in Play School we feature one of the most popular amongst pre-schoolers – ducks! Ducks and ducklings have featured in children’s nursery rhymes, games and stories for generations. The song, “Six Little Ducks”, is particularly well known as a tool for teaching numbers and counting through repetition. This week in Play School we feature ducks in songs, stories, “through the windows” segments and play.
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Theme Notes
Series 229: Ducks
Page 1 of 12
Ducks
Young children love playing with and looking at animals and this week in Play School we
feature one of the most popular amongst pre-schoolers – ducks!
Ducks and ducklings have featured in children’s nursery rhymes, games and stories for
generations. The song, “Six Little Ducks”, is particularly well known as a tool for teaching
numbers and counting through repetition. This week in Play School we feature ducks in songs,
stories, “through the windows” segments and play.
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Monday
PRESENTERS
Karen Pang – Alex Papps
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
Ebb and Flo and their New Friend
Author & Illustrator: Jane Simmons
Publisher: Orchard Books
FILM
Cycling
(Play School, ABC)
ANIMATION
Three Little Ducks
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
Make some sail boats out of recycled
plastic meat trays and bottles. Float them in
the bath or in a bucket or water trough.
Make some little ducklings by drawing eyes
on yellow rubber gloves. Cut out some
orange paper duck bills and tape them to
the fingers of the glove.
SONGS
This Little Light of Mine
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
My Big Blue Boat
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
Rolling all Around
Composer: Val Donlon
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Swim Little Duck
Composer: Roberta McLaughlin
Three Little Ducks
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
All the Fish are Swimming in the Water
Composer: Beatrice Landeck
Publisher: J. Albert & Son
I Can Fly
Composer: Lucille Wood
Publisher: Chambers Harrap
Giddiap Horsey
Composers: L. Scott & L. Wood
Publisher: Chambers Harrap
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MAKE AND DO
How to Make a Tennis Ball Duck
You will need:
A yellow tennis ball
Coloured craft foam or cardboard (we used purple foam for eyes, orange foam for a
beak and yellow foam for webbed feet)
Safety scissors
Velcro adhesive dots
Yellow craft feathers
Tape
Cut two round eyes from coloured foam or cardboard. Place a velcro adhesive dot on the
back of each eye and attach to the tennis ball.
Cut two identical rounded beak shapes from orange foam or cardboard. Stick a velcro dot
on the end of each shape and attach to the tennis ball to form a beak, as pictured above.
Cut two identical webbed feet from yellow foam or cardboard. As above, stick a velcro dot
to each foot and attach to the tennis ball.
Tape on two yellow craft feather wings.
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Tuesday
PRESENTERS
Karen Pang – Jay Laga’aia
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
TOLD STORY
The Interrupted Picnic
(A story told by the Play School team)
FILM
Stand Up and Hear it for Feet
(Play School, ABC)
ANIMATION
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
Have some running races with your friends!
Put down some witches hats to run in and
out of. Can you run backwards?
Take a trip to your local fire station and have
a look at the fire engine!
Go to the library and borrow some stories
about fire engines to read at home.
SONGS
The Fire Engine
Composer: A. Wiechard
Publisher: AMPD
The Fire Truck
Composers: R. McLaughlin & L. Wood
Publisher: Bowmar
Ducks Like Rain
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
Have You Heard the Cat at Night
Composer: Ron Gamack
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Six Little Ducks
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
I Like to Sing
Composers: Peter Dasent & Garth Frost
Publisher: Origin/Control
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
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MAKE AND DO
How to Make Duck Flippers
You will need:
A pencil
A3 orange cardboard
Safety scissors
Two lengths of elastic
Tape
Place your feet in the middle of a piece of A3 orange cardboard. Draw a large, webbed
duck flipper around each foot. Cut the flippers out with safety scissors.
Tape a length of elastic to the back of each flipper. Fit the flippers on your feet – the elastic
should hold them in place!
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How to Make a Newspaper Skirt
You will need:
An old newspaper
A length of ribbon, long enough to tie around your waist
Tape
Hold up a sheet of newspaper, with the fold on your right, as pictured.
Rip the newspaper from top to bottom, stopping just before you reach the end.
Unfold the newspaper and lay it down on a flat workspace.
Place a ribbon along the un-ripped end of newspaper and tape to secure.
Tie the skirt around your waist, as you would an apron.
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Wednesday
PRESENTERS
Karen Pang – Jay Laga’aia – Georgie Parker
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
The Egg
Author & Illustrator: Dick Bruna
Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
FILMS
Georgie at the Duck Pond
(Play School, ABC)
Georgie’s Picnic at the Park
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
Find an old hat and decorate it with
flowers, ribbons or any colourful bits and
pieces you like.
Make some scrambled eggs or French
toast for breakfast.
SONGS
All the Little Ducklings
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
Eggs
Composer: Don Spencer
Three Little Candles
Composer: Dorothy M. Parr
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Do You Put Your Hat On…
Composers: Val Donlon & Claire Henderson
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Let’s Go Driving
Composer: Jeffrey Moss
Publisher: Festival Attractions Inc. (ASCAP)
The Wheels on the Bus
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
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MAKE AND DO
How to Make Wheel-y Biscuits
You can make these “wheel-y” biscuits using any toppings you like! Simply decorate plain
rice cake “wheels”. You might like to add carrot or celery spokes!
Some ideas are:
Sliced tomato and basil
Sliced tomato topped with celery “spokes”
Sliced hard-boiled egg topped with carrot “spokes”
Sliced hard-boiled egg topped with sliced black olives
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Thursday
PRESENTERS
Karen Pang – Andrew McFarlane
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
Mouse Finds a Seed
Author: Nicola Moon
Illustrations: Anthony Morris
Publisher: Anova Books
FILM
Monorail Ride
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
Turn a recycled plastic bottle into a fish!
Poke some colourful cellophane inside the
bottle, tape on some foam fins and use a
marker to draw on two fishy eyes and a
fishy mouth.
Collect some things to play with in the
bath. Do they float or sink?
Make yourself a long road train with boxes.
How about a car, a bus or a tram?
SONGS
Highway Number One
Composer: Gary King
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Swim Little Duck
Composer: Roberta McLaughlin
The Little White Duck
Composers: Walt Borrows & Bernard Zaritsky
Publisher: Southern Music Publishing c/o Peer
Music
Animals Noises
Composers: Peter & Robyn Mapleson
Publisher: Maestro Music
Let’s Go Driving
Composer: Jeffrey Moss
Publisher: Festival Attractions Inc. (ASCAP)
I’ve Been Everywhere
Composer: Geoff Mack
Publisher: Belinda Music (Aust.)
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MAKE AND DO
How to Make Your Own “Snap” Cards
You will need:
Plain cardboard
Safety scissors
Coloured crayons, pencils and/or markers
Snap is a fun matching game which can be played by two or more people.
Cut an even number of identical rectangle “cards” from plain cardboard.
Draw the same picture on two cards. You might like to draw an animal, a shape or an
object. Make as many sets of identical cards as you like.
Shuffle the cards and divide them between players. Make sure all the cards are face-down.
One at a time, each person takes a card from the top of their pile, and turn it over to reveal
the picture on the other side. When someone turns over a card that matches the previous
card you have to say “Snap!” The first person to say “Snap” adds all the turned over cards to
their pile. Whoever collects all the cards from the other players, wins the game!
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Friday
PRESENTERS
Karen Pang – Andrew McFarlane
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
Night Ride to Nanna’s
Author: Jenny Koralek
Illustrations: Mandy Sutcliffe
Publisher: Walker Books
FILM
On the Farm
(Play School, ABC)
ANIMATION
Three Little Ducks
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
Make some animal masks from paper
plates and elastic. Put on an “Old
MacDonald’s farm” show.
Make fruit salad!
Build a bridge from a cardboard plank and
tell the story of the “Three Billy Goats Gruff”
using your toys.
SONGS
Bridge of Avignon
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
I Know a Hairy Bear
Composer: Val Donlon
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Fruit Salad
Composers: Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Murray
Cook & Greg Page
Publisher: Wiggly Tunes
We’re Going In a Car Today
Composers: Don Spencer & Warren Carr
I Went to Visit a Farm One Day
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
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MAKE AND DO
How to Make a Paper Plate Hen
You will need:
A paper plate
Yellow paint
Coloured markers
Red cardboard
Safety scissors
Craft feathers
Tape
Paint a paper plate yellow and set aside to dry.
Once dry, fold the paper plate in half and draw an eye on either side of the fold with
coloured markers.
Cut a triangle beak from red cardboard and tape under the fold, so it pokes out.
Tape on a craft feather tail and a craft feather comb.
You might also like to make an orange paper plate duck!
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