Groundhog Day Grade 1
EBOTM325
$10.99 CAD
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- Author : Solski, Ruth
🌤️ Grade 1 Groundhog Day Activities — Engaging, No‑Prep, and Perfect for Early Learners
Teachers searching for Grade 1 Groundhog Day activities, Groundhog Day worksheets, or Groundhog Day lesson plans will find everything they need in this highly visual, NO PREP resource. Designed to spark curiosity and build essential literacy, math, and science skills, this 61‑page unit turns February 2nd into a meaningful learning experience your students will remember.
This comprehensive Groundhog Day resource includes 24 ready‑to‑use activities, a detailed teacher guide, and rich background information to help young learners explore groundhogs, shadows, weather, legends, and traditions connected to this North American celebration.
🌱 Why Teachers Love This Groundhog Day Resource
- No prep required — print and teach
- Perfect for Grade 1 literacy, math, science, and writing
- Highly visual activities ideal for early readers
- Cross‑curricular learning built into every page
- Teacher‑friendly background info on Groundhog Day, Candlemas, and famous groundhogs
- Hands‑on activities including puppets, shape books, matching games, and more
🎯 Learning Objectives
This Groundhog Day unit helps students:
- Explore and understand the mammal groundhog
- Learn about legends, superstitions, and how traditions are passed down
- Study shadows and experiment with light
- Discover how Groundhog Day / Candlemas Day is celebrated across North America
- Build foundational literacy, math, and science skills through themed activities
📚 Skills Covered (Perfect for Grade 1 Standards)
🔡 Phonics
- Initial consonant Ww
- Blend Gr
- Digraph Sh
✏️ Word Study
- Compound words
- Word/picture match
- Word puzzles
🔬 Science
- Animals that live in burrows
- Weather calendar
- Groundhog shape book
- Classification activities
✍️ Creative Writing
- Story writing with given words
- Choosing a title
📖 Reading
- Completing sentences
- Ordering words to form sentences
- Writing beginnings
- Completing a storybook
✍️ Printing
- Copying Groundhog Day vocabulary
- Copying a poem
🧠 Matching
- Matching shapes to shadows
- Matching animals to their homes
➕ Mathematics
- Counting by 1s
- Addition to 10
- Subtraction to 10
- Telling time (o’clock)
📦 What’s Included (61 Pages)
- Teacher objectives
- Resource list
- Vocabulary list
- Groundhog facts
- Legend of Groundhog Day
- Legend of Wiarton Willie
- Wiarton Groundhog Day Festival
- Punxsutawney Phil information
- Shadow science
- Teacher input suggestions
- Poetry & songs
- Full skills list
- Teacher evaluation sheet
- Student activity tracking sheet
- Activity cards
- Paper bag puppet
- Stick puppets
- Blank activity card
- Answer key