Friday, February 2nd we celebrated Groundhog Day here at The Spotted Toad! We had groundhog trial mix for snack, sang a groundhog song during circle time, learned some new groundhog facts and then made predictions on whether our groundhog “Shubenacadie Sam” will see his shadow.
Below are some groundhog day colouring pages our friends coloured.
We also made our own groundhogs and burrows for them to pop in and out of! These turned out great and were made by printing off groundhogs for our friends to colour, then they glued them on a popsicle stick, and poked it through the bottom of a Styrofoam cup and then glued fringed “grass” to the top of the cup for their burrow.
We also made a fact sheet about the groundhogs we made, including then name of the groundhog, how long they are, how much they weigh, what they are good at, what they do not like doing and what their favourite food is.
After our groundhog day crafts and our predictions were made we also watched a video of Shubenacadie Sam coming out of his burrow on ground hog day. He did not see his shadow, so according to Shubenacadie Sam we will have an early spring.
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