Sound-Loaded Books

Initial D/d Books Author
Can't You Sleep, Dotty? Tim Warnes
Daddies Are for Catching Fireflies Harriet Ziefert
Danny Duck Takes a Dive! Debbie Rivers-Moore
Do Like a Duck Does! Judy Hindley
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb Al Perkins
How Do Dinosaurs (Series) Jane Yolen
I Am Dog! Peter Bently
My Dad! Chae Strathie
Some Dogs Do Jez Alborough
Dinosaur Roar! Paul Strickland
Groovy Joe: Ice Cream & Dinosaurs Eric Litwin
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt Kate Messner
Final d Books Author
Back to Bed, Ed! Sebastien Braun
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Eileen Christelow
Ten in the Bed Jane Cabrera
Ten in the Meadow John Butler
There is a Bird on Your Head! Mo Willems

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Activities & Snacks

  • Dance!
  • Feed the ducks!
  • Make a card for dad!
  • Make a house with several cut-out doors from a large piece of cardboard.  Place pictures of objects that begin with the /d/ sound behind the doors of the house.
  • Pick daises
  • Play duck-duck-goose
  • Visit some dinosaurs at a museum then, draw the dinosaurs!
  • Watch some “diggers” at a construction site!

Snacks:

  • Danish
  • Decorate donuts
  • Deviled eggs
  • Dill pickles
  • Dirt (chocolate pudding and chocolate cookie crumbs).  For added fun, add some gummy dinosaurs!