Description
🐤 5 Little Ducks Activity Pack: The perfect literacy and math resource to use at the beginning of the year—and beyond!
Bring the classic Five Little Ducks song to life with this engaging and easy-to-use activity pack designed for kindergarten students. Perfect for whole group lessons, centers, and small groups, this resource supports foundational literacy and number skills at the start of the year—and grows with your students as they’re ready for subtraction and number decomposition later in the year.
Whether you’re introducing story retelling and counting or revisiting it to extend learning with equations and problem-solving, this resource does it all!
✨ Why Teachers Love It:
- Great for beginning-of-the-year routines and transitions
- Supports early counting, sequencing, and number recognition
- Easy to bring back later in the year to teach subtraction and number decomposition
- Reinforces skills through hands-on learning, storytelling, and play
- Combines literacy and math in one engaging theme
📦 What’s Included:
- Song Poster to use as a transition or shared reading
- Puppets and Retelling Props for dramatizing the story
- Class Book Templates for collaborative number writing
- Student Booklets for tracing numbers and independent reading
- Math Mats & Duck Cutouts for centers and subtraction
- Decomposition + Equation Activities for more advanced number work
💡 How to Use It:
- Start the year using the song for transitions and circle time
- Support foundational literacy with retelling, puppets, and class books
- Introduce basic counting and number recognition
- Later in the year, revisit the resource for math centers focused on subtraction
- Use duck cutouts and mats to practice number decomposition and equations
This 5 Little Ducks Activity Pack is a resource you’ll use again and again all year long—because it grows with your students’ skills.
👉 Grab it now and make your year-long planning just a little bit easier!
What Kindergarten Standards Do This 5 Little Ducks Activity Pack Address?
- RL.K.1 – With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- RL.K.2 – With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
- RL.K.3 – With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
- K.CC.A.3 – Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
- K.CC.B.4 – Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
- K.OA.A.1 – Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
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