Learning about Rabbits

Easter and spring are fine times to learn about rabbits, but of course you can do a rabbit unit study any time of year. Here are some resources to help your kiddos learn about rabbits.

Mrs. Thompson’s Treasures has a great free printable set on rabbit science, including labeling the parts of a rabbit, a page to read, a mini book to print and color, a Venn diagram comparing rabbits to kangaroos and a writing page.

Living Life and Learning has a free printable rabbit life cycle worksheet set you can download after you subscribe to their newsletter. The post also includes some good rabbit related books and other resources.

Homeschool Preschool has a nice set of rabbit learning activities, which includes life cycle, parts of a rabbit, practicing writing the letter r, a number maze, puzzle and more. These are free when you sign up for their newsletter.

If you want to buy some resources for learning about rabbits, the set from A Dab of Glue Will Do is a great one. It includes life cycle printables, information about the difference between a rabbit and a hare, posters and a PowerPoint presentation, activities related to herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and more. You can buy this set at Teachers Pay Teachers.

Montessori Nature has another great set of printables for purchase. This pack includes life cycle and parts of the rabbit activities, rabbit information and characteristics, a little book about rabbits and more. This post also includes some good information about considerations for getting a rabbit as a pet for the classroom or home if that’s something you’re thinking about.

Riki Tiki Art on Etsy has a lovely set of printables for a rabbit unit study, including facts about rabbits and hares, what they eat, anatomy and life cycle, coloring and tracing activities, a fun bean art project, classroom decor and more.

Also if you want some crafts and other activities with a bunny theme, check out my post on bunny activities and crafts.

Learning numbers actually involves a few different skills, from recognizing the shape of the number and knowing the word that goes with it to understanding one to one correspondence for counting and what order the numbers go in.

A lot of this is learned best through play and activities that get kids counting and tracing and otherwise interacting with numbers. These activities can help.

I specifically mentioned tracing above because of these number formation rhymes cards from Teaching Mama, which can be used in lots of ways to practice making the shapes of the numbers, including tracing, lining up items on the number shapes (and counting them!), using playdough to shape the numbers and so on. Each number has a little rhyme to help you remember how to make it, which is cute.

And speaking of playdough, you can find lots of playdough number mats with different themes for kids to use as they learn about numbers. Preschool Play and Learn, for example, has these cute apple themed ones that also teach one to one correspondence as you learn the numbers and count to 10.

Or use these tree-themed ones from Live Over Cs to form the numbers, count out items on a ten frame and place the correct number of items in the tree to match the number (do this with playdough, little buttons or whatever manipulatives you have on hand). Your little builders will also love these Duplo number mats from Life Over Cs, which allow you to shape the number out of blocks and count out the number of blocks that corresponds to each number.

I also love these mats from The Savvy Sparrow that include the number and the word you can trace with playdough or marker, showing how to count the number on your fingers, a tens frame and a number line.

Finger plays and counting songs are lots of fun for little ones, too, and Childhood 101 has a great collection of songs and rhymes having to do with numbers (as well as printable song cards you can use with them.

This cardboard roll number chain form Hands On As We Grow would be a fun addition to singing number songs or to use in other play and counting games. And we all love something easy to make with stuff we already have.

Older kids who already know the order of numbers can also use these connect the dot number printables from Fun Learning for Kids. Or use the shapes for playdough mats or to practice tracing even for kids who don’t know all the numbers in order yet.

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