Groundhog's Day Fun!

I don't know why, but I love, love, love Groundhog's Day!  Any holiday that is going to celebrate cute, furry animals makes me happy!  

We started the week with creating this graph, inspired by Welcome to Room 36.

I just have to tell you that one of my littles absolutely refused to hang up her groundhog above "yes" or "no" until she could go and see if it was sunny or not.  So stinkin' smart!

Here is a freebie of the title if you want it for next year.

We also used my sweet friend Katie's Shadow Detectives unit to do some shadow investigating.  We did this activity by creating shadows of our groundhogs with flashlights.  We did this with the lights off.  They had sosososososo much fun with lights out!

We also made a little treat out of bananas, almonds, and chocolate chips.

Such a fun day of shadows a furry critters!

Groundhog's Day Fun

We had a fabulous day yesterday for Groundhog's Day!  Here are some pictures of our day.

We made groundhog predictions.  This idea came from Vickie Plant's Groundhog's Day Unit.  We played tons of her games in this unit as well for math and reading groups.

We created an organizer to show our thinking.

We used Gail Gibbon's book Groundhog's Day to help us learn new things about this holiday.

Then we explored our own shadows outside and observed what type of weather helps us see shadows. 

When we returned to our classroom we created shadow pictures of objects we viewed outside.

 

Thank you Hadar for this fabulous shadow idea!

The we created groundhog bananas while we watched the news clip from Pennsylvania about Punxsutawney Phil.

To make the groundhog, we stuck almonds for ears and chocolate chips for eyes into a banana.