Spring Bunny Craftivity Freebie and Sleepy Bunny Song

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I hope you enjoy this Spring Bunny Craftivity There are two patterns included. One to make a class set of sweet bunnies and one for a home school or family that may just want to make one or a few bunnies. This is a great art project for The Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes.


This is a sweet video for the preschool or kindergarten set. After waking the Sleeping Bunnies the children can hop and jump with them until they are sleepy again!
For more Spring Songs visit this blog post. There are three spring songs.

I hope you enjoy this Spring Bunny Craftivity with the ones you love!

What Do You Love About Spring?

This is a wonderful freebie for place value study with Easter Bunnies. I'm going to put a couple in my math centers! Thanks so much to Primarily Inspired ABC
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

by William Wordsworth

Daffodils are one of my favorite things about spring. I love new the new leaves. Birds making nests and the refreshing newness of the world. What are your favorite things about spring?

Photo from here
These are lovely and would be easy to make with children. I think children will add some lovely fun and it would be a sweet gift.

Splat, Parts of Speech, Balanced Equations Freebies

I have put together some freebies for everyone this week. I hope you can find something you can use. Please leave a comment if you can. It always warms a blogger's heart. Also feel free to pin to your boards. I make it easy for you to pin by having a Pin Button for each picture! We had an amazing workshop by Kathy Bumgardner at our school last week. It was packed with ideas for getting children to examine the text. She has a great website so check it out. After the workshop I decided to use a book we were currently reading in our classroom Secret Agent Splat by Rob Scotton. We had read the book several times but this time we really took the book apart. We found the characters, settings and listed the major events as a group. Here is the anchor chart we created together.

After we created the anchor chart, read through the book again and checked our major events by using the text I decided to type the major events as given by the children. I used power point to create my document using the events named by the children. The next day we reviewed the major events together. The children then cut out the strips and put them in order working together and using the anchor chart. I think it is so important to use what the children create. They have ownership of the material.

They worked together to put the major events in order. I let the children work on the floor or wherever they felt comfortable. They used the anchor chart for a reference and discussed the text. Here is a finished product.

We are working on parts of speech and balanced equations in our class also. I created these freebies to use in my classroom. The lines are clean and simple. Some of my honeys seem to be overwhelmed by the extra fluff we love to add to printables. I needed to do away with the extras and create some clean sheets that were focused on the skills we need to learn. I love swirleys and twirlys but I needed to bring these skills into sharper focus! Check out the printables. I hope you can use them.

Nouns and Verbs


Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Balanced Equations
I hope you found something you can use in your classroom.
All the best, Sarah Tharpe Winchell

Songs for Spring by The Learning Station

If you haven't discovered the musical group The Learning Station you and the children you love are missing out on some musical fun. The Learning Station has over 99 music videos on you tube. I am sharing some of their spring songs with you in this post. The first one is The Hungry Caterpillar with Lyrics on the screen. This would be a great addition to your study of Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar

The next one is a favorite with the younger set.
The last one for today is Spring is Here with Lyrics The songs with lyrics posted on the screen are a great way to encourage reading and language expression. This is also a fun interactive song. It includes the butterfly walk, the frog jump and many more!

Please take time to check out The Learning Station! All the best,