In a class of twenty children, for instance, ten children might create pages for a book about five puppies and the other ten children may create pages for a book about five kittens, etcetera.

Vary the number of class books you make depending on the number of children you are working with.

Don’t make the books too long or the kids may lose interest.

As you read the class book over and over, have the children count the five puppies on each page.

In a book called “5 Little Puppy Dogs”, for instance, each child in the group can make a page with 5 puppies going to a different place.

Choose a number and have the children create two or three class books based on “Ten Little Rubber Ducks”.

On day three, count how many ducks are on each page.

On the second day read the book and talk about the story and the pictures.

Read Ten Little Rubber Ducks right through on the first day.

The children can then use crayons or felts to add words, water, plants, or anything they like to their pictures. Have the children cut sections of ducks out of the free duck picture handout, glue them to their papers and then print the correct number of ducks beside each group. Try the activities below with your students to help them practice counting sets of ducks and to learn how to use ordinal numbers. The story begins in the factory where the ducks are made. They’re then loaded on a freighter but during stormy weather ten of little rubber ducks fall into the ocean and float away. Each creature the ducks meet is seen in its own habitat and behaves in a true-to-life manner, offering a very simple first view of biology and geography.This delightful tale is another example of Carle’s colourful tissue paper collage style. Following the little ducks as they float to all parts of the globe, young explorers can see for themselves the meanings of directional words and learn simple math concepts, such as counting and the use of cardinal and ordinal numbers. But as the sun sets, the 10th little rubber duck is left all alone, bobbing helplessly on the big wide sea. One drifts west, where a friendly dolphin jumps over it. 'Ducks overboard!' shouts the captain, as a giant wave washes a box of 10 little rubber ducks off his cargo ship and into the sea. In Eric Carle’s poignant and funny story, illustrated with strikingly designed collages, readers are taken on an exciting voyage of discovery. Ahoy! This classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Grouchy Ladybug stars 10 little rubber ducks and their globe-trotting adventures.

Ten rubber duckies book