I use puppets for a variety of
activities.
 | For
children to explore with at choice time. |
| To
role play a story |
| To
sing songs |
| To
act out a math equation |
| To
create stories and explore with language |
| To
retell stories |
In this activity for Who eats What?,
In the
song, Five Little Ducks by Raffi, The mother duck is a puppet and all of
the baby ducks are Velcroed onto the mother duck. The activity we do this puppet
is subtraction. Mother duck started with 5 ducks and 1 duck swam away, how many
are left?
We role-play this activity in large
groups; small groups and the children role-play during their choice time as
well.
An extension to this activity is
journal writing; to draw a subtraction sentence.
In the song Octopus by Charlotte Diamond, I use crocheted puppets to role-play the food chain again. This is definitely one of my favourite puppets. The slippery fish gets eaten by the octopus that gets eaten by the tuna fish that gets eaten by the great white shark, which finally gets eaten by the humungous whale. All of the puppets fit into each other’s mouth, so they really do get eaten. I bought these puppets from Kids in Harmony, a company in Red Deer.
