Groundhog's Day

Since living in California, I have found that Groundhog's day is not nearly as anticipated.  We don't really have a need to look forward to spring in SoCal, since 1. Winter time is GORGEOUS, and 2. it is already spring with blossoms on trees and flowers blooming long before Groundhog's day.

However, we still had fun with a Shadow and Groundhog theme week.  We had some repeat activities from last year.

A couple of new ideas we loved:

 

From Sharing Kindergarten we used this printout.

We thought of word that started with the letter G, and also words that rhymed with 'hog'.  I used her idea of hiding them around the room for the kids to find.  They loved it enough we then did it 4 or 5 more times.  We took turns hiding, finding, and practiced counting each time to make sure we had them all back.  big hit.

The kids are loving having their food decorated.  Every time I give them lunch they ask what it is shaped as (even when I didn't actually do anything, we can always pretend.)  We made groundhog muffins, bread and toast.  Brielle said in this case that the banana was the burrow door.  And when we were talking about rhyming words we had hotdogs for lunch.

We traced our shadows, and while the kids played I then traced random other shadows (shovels, rakes, etc.) and the kids guessed what item I had traced.