The Little Rabbit

We chose the BFIAR book, The Little Rabbit, for this week. It is about a little girl named Sara who received a rabbit in her Easter basket, how they play, how it is having a rabbit for a pet, and also how it is after Buttercup, the rabbit, has her babies. This is our first book where the artwork was from photographs and Silas seemed to really like that because he said it was real. He even asked when he could meet these kids in the book haha.

On our first day exploring the book, we read the story and also reviewed our scripture verse that says you are blessed when you are kind to animals. This was  also the scripture they learned in church a Sunday or two ago and Silas liked that a lot. We learned some new vocabulary like rhubarb and hutch. We then talked about how words have syllables and did a game of one or two syllable sort. Silas is so keen when it comes to auditory things that he caught on no problem. We also used a sheet protector to work on our letter of the week, R. I am learning that right now this is his favorite way to write. I don’t know how long it will last but he loves using the expos and worksheets under the sheet protector. We ended up practicing R’s over and over this way so later in the week I added S work since those make him most nervous when writing his name.  We also used our manipulative and did some peg work on patterns. Later this night, little brother found some flowers that looked like buttercups at soccer practice and this made Silas so happy.

The next day we read our story and talked about the differences between the pet rabbit and the wild rabbit. They were different in how they looked and also in how they got their needs met. We talked about how God helps provide for both the rabbits in different ways because he knows what we all need. We worked on our R’s again and also on making a hutch for our rabbit and a wild place for our wild rabbit. We learned that where you live is called a habitat and we thought creatively to make our habitats the best they could be. We didn’t have enough cotton balls to make the seven babies so we just made two bunnies. We also reviewed our days of the week since the baby rabbits were named after the days of the week- we are finally learning the order! Calendar time is paying off!

Our third day of The Little Rabbit, we played with our habitat while we read the story and acted out when the rabbits met (all his idea).  We did a worksheet where we had to count all the rabbits and below were three number choices and one was the correct answer. I showed him how to do the first one and let him work independently and I was so surprised he got them all correct. This was his first time doing a worksheet like that too! He thought it was important to draw a line to each bunny, even though that wasn’t a part of the directions, but I let him do it his way and I think that number trail helped him not miss a single rabbit! I guess he taught me a little bit! Then we worked with our vocabulary words and clothes pinned the beginning letter/sound. We did the words with both capital letters and also lower case. He enjoyed this activity too. He usually maxes out at two to three activities so we took a break and continued working later in the afternoon. In the afternoon, we summarized the story we have been learning and told dad all about it. We also explained the parts of our habitat to him and told him about all the different flower types in the book.

Our last day of The Little Rabbit was a very fun one. We read the story, then we practiced writing R’s, S’s, and our whole name. We did a scissor and glue worksheet where we cut out pictures of words that started with a H sound and glued them down. We then talked about all the different kind of pets that people have from kitties to big spiders to goats. We talked about if we would like to have these animals as a pet or not. Then we decided we were going to go to the pet store to look at all the different pets- even rabbits! We saw hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, fish, and birds! We asked the worker if we could pet the rabbit and she let us. We were surprised at how very soft the rabbit was! He was even softer than our dog. The worker gave us a sheet of paper about how to take care of the rabbit if you choose a rabbit as a pet. We ended our pet store visit with buying a couple of treats for our dog. This was a very great week of school and I would love every week to feel just as exciting!