Ten Grouchy Groundhogs

This semester every week is based on a book. Since Groundhog Day just happened, our book was Ten Grouchy Groundhogs.
Our first activity was a reading game. We reviewed the letters S, M, A, and T. In our game the child would choose one of the letters. They would put on our "special hat" and search through our "groundhog burrow" for the letter they chose.

After everyone had a few turns, we played a math game using groundhogs we made while the other children were in the burrow. We drew a number card and "fed" our groundhogs the number of pom-poms on the card. The children would touch their nose when they thought they had the right answer, and we counted together to see if they were correct.Our snack this week was a big hit!! We took hot dogs and cut them into pieces. We took crescent roll dough and wrapped the hot dog in it. The result was supposed to look like a groundhog peeking out of it's burrow, but either way the children loved it.

The final activity was making shadow puppets. We made monkeys and alligators, so the children could act out the rhyme "5 Little Monkeys." We loved "monkeying around" with your children!!!