Our Before Five in a Row selection this week was The Little Rabbit by Judy Dunn. I had planned to do this study as a welcome to a new pet rabbit but the rabbit didn't come like expected :( I decided to work with the book anyway.
I had found carrot shaped eggs around Easter time and bought them. I knew that we would eventually be working with The Little Rabbit and The Carrot Seed. I thought they would come in handy. For this activity, I added black beans and alphabet beads in each carrot. He had to shake the egg to see what letters were in each one. He then traced the letters on the chart. This idea and free printable chart came from Mrs. Jones Creation Station (link below).
We read about rabbits and discovered what they needed to be happy and live long lives. I wrote all of the items that Kaleb mentioned about what bunnies do onto the carrot (printable below). He even had me write "got lost" because Buttercup the rabbit got lost in our story.
We also discussed what rabbits need, have, can, and are using this free printable organizer from Beach Bummed Teacher (link below).
We read about how to handle a bunny correctly. He practiced using a stuffed bunny of J's. This will come in handy if we ever get a bunny of our own.
He decided what pets he would get if he could using this free printable from Homeschool Share. Needless to say the tarantula did not make his list (happy for that) but he did mention that he would like a mouse:(
I made some carrot bean bags and gave him two baskets. Each one was programmed with the letter R and the letter V. He had to determine of the picture/word began with the letter R or V and then throw the bean bag into the correct basket.
One of Kaleb's favorite games was parking the cars. Here, you roll the dice and park the car in the correct space. We played this game together - I was red and he was yellow. He won, though:)
I also had a package of rabbit and carrot erasers that I found. We used these several ways this week. Here, they were markers for another number game using dice. We tried to see who would cover the board first.
He put carrots programmed with numbers 1 through 25 in order. Rather than overwhelm him with all of the numbers, I gave him the first ten numbers to put in order etc...
I found this cute printable carrot subtracting printable. There were five carrots in the ground and he "took away" two, then counted how many carrots were left. This came from Frog Spot (link below).
I used the erasers for another game. I cut some alphabet stickers to fit the backside of the erasers and added them to a container of blackens. He had to use the tweezers to choose a carrot or bunny and then find the letter match on the chart. He covered the letter with the eraser. He liked doing this as well. We reused the alphabet mat from the Mrs. Jones Creation Station (link below).
Our letter of the week was V. He made a V into a volcano. We also watched several videos of erupting volcanoes on youtube.
J had a play hutch and we found some bunnies to play with during the day. I gave him some yarn for hay and he used the erasers for Buttercup's babies.
Then, we made a makeshift hutch from one of our bookshelf cubbies. We added a towel, a bowl for food, and Buttercup with one of her babies. He fed her daily and made sure the hutch was clean. I wasn't sure he would be interested in doing this but he surprised me.
We worked with numbers that added to five and numbers the added to ten. We used this ten chart and the erasers. He chose a number and added that many carrot erasers to the chart. Then he added bunny erasers for the other addend. By doing this activity, he was able to visualize addends of ten. This is part of my free printable (link below).
One last activity that we did with the carrot and bunny erasers was work with patterns. I started a pattern and he had to finish it. He was pretty good at this, taking the patterns further than I expected. We had fun with The Little Rabbit even though the outcome wasn't how I wanted it to be - no rabbit joining our family. But, I will say that this sparked a curiosity in my daughter J and she is researching rabbits as well. We have started a chore program in our house and she is working towards purchasing her own bunny. She has started a notebook for her research and is reading every book that she can find on the subject. So, eventually, we may have a pet rabbit after all.
Links
Mrs. Jones Creation Station - has the free printable alphabet garden sheet and idea using the carrot shaped eggs.
Frog Spot - has the free printable carrot subtraction game.
Lil Country Kindergarten - has the free printable bunny finger puppets and rhyme that we used this week.
A Girl and a Glue Gun - had the idea to make rabbit cinnamon rolls. We did this but no picture - sorry.
Homeschool Creations - has the idea for the mini sensory bin using the hutch and bunnies. We just happened to own the hutch already.
Beach Bummed Teacher - has the free rabbit printable organizer in her TPT store.
The Measured Mom - has a whole bunch of ideas for the letter V including the parking lot game and making the V into a volcano.
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