Groundhog Day

We started off our day with groundhog facts!  We learned a lot about groundhogs.   Now, if only Mr. Greg could learn to draw.  This is my sad sad attempt at a groundhog.  My dear friend Katie from Teacher To The Core says it’s a buck-toothed bear!  Punxsutawney Phil would just die.  For shame.  And now you know why I buy clip art and not create it!

I love that they have learned so much about groundhogs!!!!

  

Shadow or no shadow?  We made our groundhog coins and predicted who would win.  We flipped the coin and graphed our results and analyzed our data to see who the winner was!

The kids used dice to practice adding with roll and color!  We love roll and color games!

We made a groundhog spinner so we could spin and graph!  Note:  if your graph is the exact same all the way across, you probably ain’t doing it right.  Just sayin’.

Will he or won’t we?   We made this prediction the day before Groundhog Day!  Then we watch a clip of Phil to see if our prediction was correct!  (On Groundhog Day you can just Google Punxsutawney Phil and find a link to a news video to watch!)

And these math activities were a super fun, super engaging way to meet those  standards.  Again with the engaging, fun, standards and learning…cray cray!

Of course we had our groundhog in a burrow snack!  The best part was crumbling up the Oreo !

        

The next best part was EATING!  Num Num!

Of course, what would a holiday be without a silly hat?!

The students also made these adorable little groundhogs.

 

And that was our groundhog day!!!  A super fun day!  We learned a lot about groundhogs, we had tons of fun and we made a silly hat.  And we have glitter in our hair.  It was a successful day.  (The glitter is from morning meeting!  We played SPARKLE!  We count to a pre-determined number.  If you are that number you get sparkled!  That means you get glitter in your hair!)