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

• Read The Little Rabbit together
• Worked on the Letter R tracer sheet from The Little Rabbit Printables
• Went over the vocabulary words from The Little Rabbit and talked about any words we don’t know {from The Little Rabbit Printables}
• Talked about the differences in the two rabbits {we used the sheet from The Little Rabbit Printables

• Put together our Little Rabbit Sensory bin – lots of paper snipping on Kaleb’s part
• Worked on the early tracer sheets from The Little Rabbit Printables
• Talked about where The Little Rabbit might have taken place {looking at the weather, etc…}

• Brought out our own white rabbit, Vanilla, to play with us! and fed him carrots of course!

Tuesday

• Read The Little Rabbit together again and talked about the different flowers we saw in the book.
• Tried to remember the different animals and insects that Buttercup meets.
• Talked about how plants and animals are the same {need water and food, etc..}
• Talked about the parts of a turtle and labeled parts from The Little Rabbit Printables

• 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.
• Reviewed our vocabulary words from The Little Rabbit Printables
• Worked on the plant or animal sort from The Little Rabbit Printables
• Had fun with the Little Rabbit Sensory bin
• Enjoyed a fun new white rabbit Webkinz

Wednesday

• Read the story together
• Worked on word tracers from The Little Rabbit Printables
• Reviewed the vocabulary words
• Worked on beginning sounds of the vocabulary words and identified the letter with the printable from The Little Rabbit Printables

• 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
• Put the days of the week in order using printables from The Little Rabbit Printables
• What starts with the letter ‘h’ sound printable from The Little Rabbit Printables
• How many baby bunnies printable from The Little Rabbit Printables
• Played with the Little Rabbit Sensory bin

Thursday

• Using words that were in the book The Little Rabbit, we counted word syllables from The Little Rabbit Printables
• 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

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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