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Duck, Duck...
November 28, 2014
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
-Japanese proverb

The Exchange team was having a meeting with the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership team, when Jill Bella turned to me and said, "Duck, Duck...."  And I, drawing on my North Dakota childhood experiences, added, "Goose."  Jill then turned to Bonnie, raised in northern Minnesota, said "Duck, Duck..." and Bonnie replied, "Goose."  However, when Sue Offut, raised in southern Minnesota, was queried, she replied, "Gray Duck."  

So for some reason, this popular childhood game has regional variations.  So this is the challenge to our readers:  What is the background for these various versions of the game?  Are there other variations?  

Share your thoughts.





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Anne · December 01, 2014
Albany, NY, United States


I grew up in Syracuse NY and raised my children in Albany NY and we played duck duck Goose. Changing for the Holdays might have been done for a little more excitement.

Qanglaagix · December 01, 2014
CINHS
Anchorage, Alaska, United States


In some Unangax villages in the Aleutian Islands, our children play "Sax, Sax, Lagix" (Bird, Bird, Goose). I think it started after contact with westerners, and then localized.

Jill Winter · December 01, 2014
Youth and Family Services
Rapid City, SD, United States


I just did a tasting experience with my classrooms and we tasted carrots, orange pepper and cooked sweet potatoes for orange vegetables. We then played the game.....carrot, carrot..................sweet potato. The children were full of giggles and called their classmates their sweet potato the rest of the week!

KLee Tirpak · December 01, 2014
United States


In CT we played: "Duck, Duck, Goose"

Edna Montague · December 01, 2014
Sweatt-Winter Early Care and Education Center
Farmington, Maine, United States


We love this game and use it to reinforce what ever animal we are studying so if it is dinosaurs it could be stegosaurus, stegosaurus, T-Rex. This gives them a fun way to help remember names of new animals we learn. We often ask the children what animals they want to do.



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