Week 5: Runaway Bunny

Back to the BFIAR curriculum this week with The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown.

The Runaway Bunny read on YouTube

This is a very popular children's book about a little bunny who tests his Mommy.  The bunny wants to run away from home and gives his Mommy different ways he could run away by using his imagination. Each time, the Mommy bunny explains that no matter where he goes she will always find him.  

Finally after a month we were all able to get together for co-op day! First we had all the kids sit down at the living room table so they could listen to Runaway Bunny.  The kids pointed out the pictures and loved the book.

The letter of the week was B for Bunny. The kids were given paper plates with the letter B on them. They had to use the B items on the tray to create their own bunny. 

Butter cookies for the body.

Here is some banana for the ears and feet.

Broccoli for the tale and blueberries for the eyes

The kids did more eating than bunny creating. I can't say I blamed them, it was a great snack.

Next we went outside for a surprise activity.  At one point in the story the little bunny goes into the garden to try to hide from his Mommy. He says, "I will be a crocus in a hidden garden." So the kids planted some crocuses for the spring.

One day I tied a piece of rope to the staircase and had the kids pretend it was a tightrope.   In the book the Bunny wants to run away to the circus. There is a sweet little picture of the little Bunny on a flying trapeze and his Mother as a tightrope walker in the book.  All week my daughter wanted to be a tightrope walker! This was her chance. 

Grammy had to babysit this week so I left two projects for her to work on with the kids.  One night after bath I traced each of the kid's feet on white construction paper. I instructed Grammy to help the kids make a bunny out of the tracing.  The bunnies came out great!

The other project was to make crocuses out of handprints. Grammy traced the kid's hands on colored construction paper. Then you cut out the hand, tape or glue the finger to the thumb, and you have a flower resembling a crocus!

One day I read the kids Psalm 139.  Since my twins are almost 3, expecting them to sit through a long bible reading and understand it is impossible! So when we read from the Bible I make them repeat certain phrases and words.  Psalm 139 was perfect for this book.

Last but not least the kids recreated certain scenes from the story using clipart.

Another great week of home-preschool under our belt!