Candlemas and Groundhog day are on the same day. This year they were on a Saturday, so we didn't actually celebrate either on the correct day. But the following week I decided to teach Q a little bit about the tradition of Groundhog day. I needlefelted a little groundhog. Sorta. I am still not happy with it looking "groundhoggy" enough, but I fussed with it for several days and finally decided it would have to do. We kept it on our table for the week and the kids enjoyed holding and playing with it. It went into our box of Valentine decorations to re-emmerge next year!
We read these two books this year:
We read these two books this year:
Note--this book has a Halloween Witch and Santa in the story, so if you are not fans of these two you may want to forego this book. Though it is a fun read!
We didn't get any more involved than just reading the books and talking a little bit about shadows. I saved the titles of several more "shadow" and "groundhog" books to my "February" teaching folder on my computer, so next year we may choose to delve deeper!
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