In
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish there is a page dedicated to
The Gack and the game of
Ringing the Gack where the children in the book toss rings upon the gack's antlers. I thought how fun would it be to have our own
gack? Then I realized I had no energy to actually whip up one but we did have our classroom tree so why not get rings to toss onto it? Oh my goodness! While trying to find an image of the gack for you I just now found
this,
this, and
this. Fun stuff!
I originally wanted to use dollar store bracelets for our gack (from
One Fish...) rings but could not find them anywhere. I was at Target and eyeballed
this set
of baby linking rings but did not want to pay $10 for them. I went back
later and found them reduced to under $6 (online even cheaper) and
snatched them up. The children loved tossing and hanging them on our
gack.
They also liked linking them together and/or sorting them by color. The colors are super fun and the
sturdiness is much better than the cheapie dollar store bracelets I was
thinking of. The following week, the children talked a lot about the
rings, their
gack, and how they connected the links. Along the
way they made connections from their play to the literature and they
picked up new vocabulary words such as
connecting,
rings, and
links. It was stupendous fun!
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