Groundhogs

Well, this week we talked about groundhogs in celebration of Groundhog's Day.  Unfortunately, he saw his shadow, so we get to enjoy the weather we are having today - very cold windchills, and frozen pipes!  How fun! 

We read Gregory's Shadow and Andrew McGroundhog and HIs Shady Shadow (interesting book) and Groundhog Gets a Say.  we also have the movie Goose which we will watch tomorrow.  Since groundhog day had already passed, we mainly studied the animal rather than the "holiday".

Here are pictures of the boys' lapbooks:

The inside of Nicolas' lapbook:

The inside of Alex's lapbook:

About Groundhog Day from Nicolas's book:

About Groundhog Day from Alex's book:

Groundhogs are rodents like these animals:

Groundhogs are also called (from Nicolas's book):

About Groundhog babies:

Groundhogs are found pretty much everywhere (from Alex's book):

What eats groundhogs?

We are taking a break this coming week.  We will not do a unit study, but read some Valentine's Day books and work on getting our valentines ready to hand out.  We are only doing reading, math, writing and spelling on Monday and Tuesday.  The rest of the week is a break for us.  Hopefully that will get us ready for a major study on the President's!  (Me, more than them.)  We will be doing another lapbook for that study.  They really enjoy the lapbooks and I enjoy seeing their creativity coming out in their learning.   But sometimes I need a break from the planning!