Groundhog 24-Hour Interval Activities, Mass Ideas, As Well As Printables For Kids

Groundhog Day is ane of those holidays that totally sneaks upwardly on you. By the fourth dimension you lot plow the calendar to February...BAM...it's already here. Over the side past times side 2 days, I'll live blogging close books together with ideas to assist you lot conception ahead to celebrate the footling guy (and to a greater extent than importantly, the start of spring). Today's post service features some fiction books that I relish reading to my students together with my ain kids at home. Tomorrow I'll portion the informational texts that I use.

Go To Sleep, Groundhog! past times Judy Cox features a furry footling beau who has a difficult fourth dimension falling asleep. Despite hitting the strength out on Columbus Day every bit usual, he tosses together with turns. Ultimately he creeps out of his burrow together with comes to realize he's been missing lots of holidays past times sleeping. He meets characters such every bit a Halloween Witch, a Thanksgiving Turkey together with Santa. This is a fun mass for reinforcing calendar concepts amongst footling learners.


Mr. Groundhog Wants the Day Off is close a groundhog who needs a break. He's tired of existence blamed for half-dozen to a greater extent than weeks of wintertime together with tries to acquire others to produce his job. This mass is a dandy springboard for a writing projection close a job/responsibility that your students would similar to give away. Since the characters inwards the story indicate out the reasons why the groundhog is skillful at his job, it too lends itself to writing close a chore they are skillful at.

Along those same lines, Substitute Groundhog tells the tale of a groundhog who is feeling nether the conditions together with interviews other animals to fill upwardly inwards for him. This mass pairs nicely amongst having the students write close an beast they holler back would brand a skillful substitute for the groundhog.




Ten Grouchy Groundhogs is a cute story about grouchy, grubby, gobbling, gabby, giggly, groovy, graceful, glitzy, gleeful, groggy groundhogs getting laid for their dandy big day. This mass easily lends itself to math extensions for immature students, but I holler back it's a fun ane to reinforce adjectives. Challenge your students to holler back of fifty-fifty to a greater extent than adjectives that start amongst the alphabetic quality G or receive got them each pick a dissimilar beast together with brainstorm adjectives that get down amongst that alphabetic quality every bit well. While this mass was written for younger learners, it's a fun ane to read to intermediate students every bit well. You tin produce the same activity, but amongst a lesson on alliteration together with lexicon skills past times having them utilization a lexicon to discovery fifty-fifty to a greater extent than adjectives that start amongst that letter. 

AND MY PERSONAL FAVORITE...Groundhog Weather School past times Joan Holus. While most groundhog books are geared towards the footling folks, this ane is a dandy read for my 3rd graders. It's funny together with engaging together with chock total of facts. The trend of the writing together with pictures genuinely appeals to them together with they get together details to utilization inwards their groundhog beast enquiry writing every bit well. If you lot aren't familiar amongst this mass I highly advise you lot snag a re-create to portion amongst your students.

Animal Research: Templates to Guide Student Writing When Researching Any Animal is a 55 page parcel that includes everything you lot demand to receive got your students write an beast enquiry report. It includes pages for brainstorming animals to research, task cards, graphic organizers, chief together with intermediate-ruled draft pages together with pages for publishing the lastly product. This is such a motivating assignment for students. I consummate ane amongst my shape together with and so it rapidly becomes a favorite alternative action for independent work.

Groundhog Day: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Writing Resource Differentiated for K-5 includes 15 printable pages of thematic materials to utilization inwards your K-5 classrooms. The parcel is open-ended so that you lot tin utilization it amongst whatsoever of the writing ideas that I listed higher upwardly or your ain ideas every bit well. There are 4 full-color printables to live used every bit shape mass covers or every bit titles on your bulletin boards when displaying the pupil writing. I carefully pattern each of my writing kits to include differentiated versions of my webs, draft newspaper together with lastly re-create pages to acquire inwards slow for you lot to modify inside your electrical current shape together with to live timeless plenty to utilization if you lot alter aeroplane levels.

The Groundhog Day parcel is too included inwards my money-saving February together with March half-dozen Packet Writing Bundle along amongst writing packets for: President's Day, Teeth, doctor Seuss, St. Patrick's Day together with  Valentine's Day.

For additional Groundhog Day ideas together with resources to utilization inwards your classroom, delight depository fiscal establishment correspond out my...

Groundhog Day Pinterest Board which features crafts, cooking together with more 

Blog Posts close Shadows 

and my Groundhog Day Non-Fiction Book Blog Post {tomorrow}

Yesterday I shared some writing ideas together with a few of my favorite fiction books close Groundhog Day. Today I'm continuing amongst my "Get Ready for Groundhog Day series" past times showcasing some dandy non-fiction reads that you lot may desire to portion amongst your class.

 Groundhog Day (Rookie Read-About Holidays) is a unproblematic book, but has some decent pictures together with facts. It's best suited for grades 1-2, but my 3rd graders were able to clit some facts from it for their enquiry writing.


The Groundhog Day Book of Facts together with Fun contains a lot of dandy information together with is presented inwards a agency that is slow for the kids to sympathize together with holds their interest. It non only 
discusses Groundhog Day, but too explains the seasons together with why they change.


Groundhog at Evergreen Road - a Smithsonian's Backyard Book is an informational text that is role of the Smithsonian Backyard Series. This mass is peculiarly skillful if you lot are researching groundhogs because it focuses on their predators.

Animal Research: Templates to Guide Student Writing When Researching Any Animal is a 55 page parcel that includes everything you lot demand to receive got your students write an beast enquiry report. It includes pages for brainstorming animals to research, task cards, graphic organizers, chief together with intermediate-ruled draft pages together with pages for publishing the lastly product. This is such a motivating assignment for students. I consummate ane amongst my shape together with and so it rapidly becomes a favorite alternative action for independent work.

Groundhog Day: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Writing Resource Differentiated for K-5 includes 15 printable pages of thematic materials to utilization inwards your K-5 classrooms. The parcel is open-ended so that you lot tin utilization it amongst whatsoever of the writing ideas that I listed higher upwardly or your ain ideas every bit well. There are 4 full-color printables to live used every bit shape mass covers or every bit titles on your bulletin boards when displaying the pupil writing. I carefully pattern each of my writing kits to include differentiated versions of my webs, draft newspaper together with lastly re-create pages to acquire inwards slow for you lot to modify inside your electrical current shape together with to live timeless plenty to utilization if you lot alter aeroplane levels.

The Groundhog Day parcel is too included inwards my money-saving February together with March half-dozen Packet Writing Bundle along amongst writing packets for: President's Day, Teeth, doctor Seuss, St. Patrick's Day together with  Valentine's Day.

I had a endangerment to utilization my Groundhog Day Writing Packet both at dwelling together with at schoolhouse recently.

Last calendar week I had my students write a persuasive paragraph on why trammel was ameliorate than wintertime (or wintertime was ameliorate than spring).

We began past times reading close the history of Groundhog Day together with discussed what it meant if he saw his shadow.

As a shape nosotros created a Venn Diagram comparison wintertime together with trammel together with and so they created their ain version using the brainstorm page.

Next, I modeled a top-down web using my reasons for preferring spring.

They completed their webs together with and so composed a draft. The issue pieces came out insanely cute. I didn't acquire a endangerment to snap a motion painting of them earlier I left. I had originally planned a dissimilar craft, but inspiration struck every bit I stumbled upon a stack of headshots I had taken of my friends.

This production is availableFebruary / March Writing Packet Bundle

I held each head/shoulder upwardly to dark structure newspaper together with cutting out the shape of simply their caput together with shoulders so that I had their photograph together with a dark slice of newspaper that was the same size together with shape. They drew a "hole" on their papers, glued their motion painting down, placed the dark shape inwards front end similar a shadow together with illustrated a background to stand upwardly for their season. When all was said together with done it looked similar they were popping out of a footling hole together with seeing their shadow. Cute!

My commencement aeroplane boy announced he wanted to larn how to say fourth dimension on an analog clock lastly night. For the record, he didn't genuinely utilization the give-and-take analog. Go figure.

Inspired past times his enthusiasm together with the groundhog I integrated some science, math together with literacy at home. We spent the twenty-four hr menstruum standard his shadow together with recording the fourth dimension together with length. It was such fun to regard how it changed shape, size together with direction. We made predictions every bit the twenty-four hr menstruum went on. He's so much fun to teach.

I printed off a re-create of the page amongst the primary-ruled newspaper together with he used it to reverberate on our experiment inwards writing.

In my Groundhog Day Writing Packet I listing a few ideas for writing prompts / topics. You could utilization the pages from mu parcel to write...

• a nonfiction slice close groundhogs
• explain the history of Groundhog Day
• write a descriptive paragraph close a groundhog
• write close a identify that the pupil together with their shadow receive got been
• If I lived underground...
• and so much more

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