Use a calendar to count off the days until the first day of spring.
Work on How many days in a week?, How many days in a month?, How many weeks in a month?, How many months in a year?.
Make a worksheet with questions about the counts. (Ex. How many days are there in three weeks? Ans. 21 days)
Writing:
Write a journal page,
What I have done over the winter.,
My favorite winter sport is?,
What if your snowman came alive?,
What if it were always winter?
Imagine you are a groundhog, What would you do if you saw your shadow?
Science/Social Studies:
Make a weather chart.
What is your average temperature and average precipitation for February? then compare it to the actual temperature and precipitation for the day.
A good site for this is www.weather.com
Do a paper on the groundhogs include such things as- Description, Habitats, Breeding, and Enemies.
Research and do a presentation on someplace that stays cold all the time- North-South Poles, Antartica, ect.
What would you do if you lived there?
Make a groundhog puppet that you can use to hold in front of a window or light to make shadows.
Make shadow drawings. Tape a piece of paper to the wall have someone stand between a lamp and the paper and trace the outline. You could also place an object beside a piece of paper and shine a light on the object and trace the shadow.
Research and make a model of a groundhog's burrow.
Games:
Groundhog hide and seek- find a dark room and give one child a flashlight and let the others hide in their groundhog's burrows(behind chairs,doors,ect). Have the child with the flashlight try to find the groundhogs. If the groundhog is caught in the light he/she is out.
