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This week we had so much fun reading the book The Little Rabbit by Judy Dunn and doing some fun activities to go along with the story. The real pictures in the book make it even better – and the fact that we have a white rabbit too, well, that’s just a huge bonus.
Our weeks that are based on a theme make it a little harder to squeeze in all of the typical school week activities {like reading and our science program}, so we try to tie in things in those areas to the book that we are reading.
Ready to see what we did this week during our Little Rabbit unit? We usually spend four days at home doing our work and Fridays are the day that we are at one of the co-ops that we are a part of, so I divide out our work to cover four days.
Monday
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Read The Little Rabbit together
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Worked on the Letter R tracer sheet from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Went over the vocabulary words from The Little Rabbit and talked about any words we don’t know {from The Little Rabbit Printables}
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Talked about the differences in the two rabbits {we used the sheet from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Put together our Little Rabbit Sensory bin – lots of paper snipping on Kaleb’s part
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Worked on the early tracer sheets from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Talked about where The Little Rabbit might have taken place {looking at the weather, etc…}
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Brought out our own white rabbit, Vanilla, to play with us! and fed him carrots of course!
Tuesday
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Read The Little Rabbit together again and talked about the different flowers we saw in the book.
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Tried to remember the different animals and insects that Buttercup meets.
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Talked about how plants and animals are the same {need water and food, etc..}
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Talked about the parts of a turtle and labeled parts from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Talked about pets that we would like to have {or not have} from the Homeschool Share Little Rabbit resources. Kaleb didn’t want to glue them on, so he drew pictures of the pets instead.
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Reviewed our vocabulary words from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Worked on the plant or animal sort from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Had fun with the Little Rabbit Sensory bin
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Enjoyed a fun new white rabbit Webkinz
Wednesday
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Read the story together
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Worked on word tracers from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Reviewed the vocabulary words
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Worked on beginning sounds of the vocabulary words and identified the letter with the printable from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Talked about the days of the week {and tried to see if we could remember them} and put them in order from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Put the days of the week in order using printables from The Little Rabbit Printables
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What starts with the letter ‘h’ sound printable from The Little Rabbit Printables
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How many baby bunnies printable from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Played with the Little Rabbit Sensory bin
Thursday
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Using words that were in the book The Little Rabbit, we counted word syllables from The Little Rabbit Printables
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Had Kaleb summarize The Little Rabbit for me – and boy did he surprise me with all he had to say {and might I just say that my hand was hurting after all this writing!!}
“The little girl found the rabbit in her Easter basket. She played with the rabbit. The rabbit was white. Her friends played with her. Then the girl took a nap and Buttercup found some friends. One was a slow turtle. One was a pretty butterfly because it was orange and black. Then she found a rabbit. It was brown. It was fast.
It started raining. She got stuck in rhubarb. She watched the rain. It stopped raining. The little girl found the rabbit. They went on a picnic and she always brought carrots. She put her in her hutch and watcher her eat and drink.
The rabbit grew and had seven babies. When they were old enough to get out of their nest, they sat in the girl’s lap and ran around. The rabbits were named Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The little girl gave the baby rabbits to her friends and she lived happily ever after with the mother rabbit.
– Kaleb, age 6
- We played the ‘find the rabbit’ game from The Little Rabbit Printables, Kaleb helped put all the numbers in order from 1 to 20 in our tabletop pocket chart and then I hid the rabbit behind one of the numbers {this is one of his FAVORITE games}. To make it a little harder, I started giving him 3 clues and only one chance to find the rabbit. For example – the rabbit is behind an odd number; the number has a one in it; add up 5+6 to get this number
- Lowercase letter beginning sounds from The Little Rabbit Printables
- We made a chalk pastel of buttercup flowers {because the rabbit’s name is Buttercup}. Since Kaleb loves the smudging and chalks, this was a great project for all of the kids to do together. He took some artistic liberties and added red flowers and a small tree with apples to the bottom just for fun.
That is a sum-up of our Little Rabbit unit. I think that’s all of it! Below are resources that would go along great with the book The Little Rabbit.
- The Little Rabbit printables
- Little Rabbit Sensory Bin
- Homeschool Share’s resources for The Little Rabbit
- Baby Animals printable pack from 1+1+1=1
- The Runaway Bunny unit
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What a great study! We loved this book and it almost made us go out and buy a couple of rabbits for the little ones! We already have cats, dogs, fish….so we changed our mind, but it sure was tempting!
I know it’s probably me but I don’t seem to be able to find the linky thing to link up with??
I am sorry the linky isn’t showing up yet. I am at the hospital with my niece and welcoming her daughter at the moment, so I can’t get it working for a bit. Leave you’re link in the comments and I can add it when I’m home. :)
Thank Jolanthe and congratulations!! Link is: http://angelicscalliwags.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/preschool-adventure-box-b4fiar-angus-lost/
Congratulations!!
great lessons! I do not see a linky to link up my post.
My son loves this book! I just might splurge and buy him that Schleich hutch — we have one little Schleich rabbit, those are the best little animal toys! I think I love them more than my son :) I went out and bought all “The Little Animal” books by Phoebe Dunn. they are just too irresistible! thanks for sharing your printables and your wonderful ideas! I can’t wait to utilize more of them when my son is a bit older!
I have a few of the other little animal books too…and didn’t remember to pull them out!
we started collecting the figures of the animals that we saw in our yard – so far we have deer, a black bear, chickens, a raccoon, a rabbit and more!
Love seeing all the smiles.
Thank you for sharing.
Here is the link I would like to submit http://theworkplan.blogspot.com/2013/01/geography-work-for-all.html
Thank you!
http://jouneytojosie.blogspot.com/2013/01/cloud-co-op.html?m=1
Here’s my link up! We studied clouds and had a blast! Love when I learn as much as the kids!
What an awesome week!! Its always nice when you can add in a real live hands on animal to the mix! Here is my link for the week: http://www.bytesofmemory.com/2013/01/non-desk-school.html I hope things go well at the hospital!
Anything with rabbits ! My link this week is for preschoolers — all about the ABC’s….. http://theresjustonemommy.com/?p=5136
What a fun unit!!! Can you add me http://tolchin.blogspot.com/2013/01/kindergarten-science-taste.html?m=1. Kindergarten science ages 3-6
My link is: http://mamato3blessings.blogspot.com/2013/01/hand-hand-fingers-thumb-preschool.html Title: Hands, Hands, Fingers, Thumb (p-K) Thanks~!
Thanks for the link-up. I love these rabbit themed ideas, and I am going to try some with my son. I’ve added your button to my sidebar!
Thanks, Anne. :) Have fun with your son!
FIAR is such a great way to learn — I loved reading about your experience with this book. I am going to be so sad when our rowing days are over.
I know what you mean!!
What a great week! I love all of the activities you did to go along with this book. I really need to research Before Five in a Row a little bit more. It seems like everyone has such a great experience with the program.
we’ve loved the books that we’ve read together and it’s been great inspiration to work on other books together as well.
I am SO looking forward to doing some of these activities with my kiddos when we get closer to Easter- EXCELENT job (as usual), Mama!
thanks, Amber. :)
added it, thanks! :)
got it, Sarah.
What a wonderful unit, thanks for sharing!