Duck Pond: Small Groups in a Picture Book

A kindergarten lesson about seeing small groups at a glance. Children hear Mama Duck's rhyme about three little ducks, match a line of dots to the hand with the same number of fingers, then explore two picture-book pages: they show how many butterflies, ladybugs, baskets and bees there are by tapping a hand, and find the group that has 3 or 4. Every direction is narrated, wrong answers get a spoken hint and another try, and the lesson ends with a stomp-and-count to 10.

• 13 narrated scenes: an opening, 11 activities and a stomp-and-count ending
• A read-aloud rhyme about three little ducks
• Two picture-book pages with small groups of 1 to 4
• 8 graded questions with spoken hints

• Say how many are in a small group of things (up to 4) without counting.
• Match a small group of pictures to the hand that shows the same number of fingers.
• Find the group that has a given number of things (up to 4) on a picture-book page.