LITTLE RABBIT
Divide the group into four smaller groups and assign each group one of the words listed below. Read the story. After each of the words is read pause for the group to make the appropriate response
| LITTLE RABBIT | "Hoppity Hop" |
| FEATHER | "Flutter, Flutter" |
| MOTHER RABBIT | "Oh Dear" |
| FOREST | "Rustle, Rustle" |
There was once a LITTLE RABBIT ____ who didn't mind MOTHER RABBIT ____ very well; and never, never told her where he was going when he went out to play. This one particular day, LITTLE RABBIT ____ was playing just outside his house when a pretty FEATHER ____ came floating by. Now this LITTLE RABBIT ____ found that when he threw the FEATHER ____ in to the air, the wind would carry it tumbling along. The poor LITTLE RABBIT ____ completely forgot MOTHER RABBIT'S ____ orders about not straying and kept throwing and following the FEATHER ____ until he was deep, deep into the FOREST ____.
All of a sudden, LITTLE RABBIT ____ discovered that he was lost. This part of the FOREST ____ was strange to him. LITTLE RABBIT ____ forgot all about he FEATHER ____ and started running and running, trying to find his way home. Everywhere LITTLE RABBIT ____ ran, the FOREST ____ grew stranger and stranger. He missed MOTHER RABBIT ____ very much. LITTLE RABBIT ____ knew MOTHER RABBIT ____ would be worried about him and he felt so foolish for following the FEATHER ____ without watching how far he was going. Then LITTLE RABBIT ____ saw a deer and asked the deer if he could tell him how to get back to his home at the edge of the FOREST ____. The deer could not tell him and this made LITTLE RABBIT ____ even sadder. He wished s much that he had minded MOTHER RABBIT ____ and not wandered into the FOREST ____ chasing the FEATHER ____.
About now, though, MOTHER RABBIT ____ was starting to search for LITTLE RABBIT ____. The animals along the way told MOTHER RABBIT ____ about LITTLE RABBIT ____ chasing a FEATHER ____ into the FOREST ____. All the animals thought he was so foolish. LITTLE RABBIT ____ was thinking about how the sun came rising over the FOREST ____ each morning, and disappeared over the meadow at night. So LITTLE RABBIT ____ decided that if he followed the sun as it crossed the sky, it would lead him through the FOREST ____ to home. As LITTLE RABBIT ____ was running and following the sun, he thought of how foolish it was not to listen to MOTHER RABBIT ____. Ahead of him, LITTLE RABBIT ____ saw MOTHER RABBIT ____ and his heart leaped with joy; and he vowed to never disobey her again.
And the LIBRARIAN ___? Will, the LIBRARIAN ___ looked around the library at the floating feathers, the muddy floor, the disarranged books, the overturned tables and the broken chairs. And then, all of a sudden, the LIBRARIAN ___ screamed EVERYBODY____!
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