Activity:         Sleepy Groundhogs:   children sing a song and dramatize Groundhog Day.

Skills:            song, drama, sense of story

Materials:      flashlight

Procedure:

1. Read:  It’s Groundhog Day by Steven Kroll.
2. Introduce children to the song:
       Sleepy Groundhog Song
       Sleepy Groundhogs
       Sleepy Groundhogs
       Sleeping in their dens
       Please be very quiet
       Oh, so, very quiet
       If you shake them
       If you wake them
       They will look for shadows
       
3. Build a groundhog den. (Bear Blocks™ work great or use space under a table.)
4. Children pretend to be groundhogs and creep into the den and sleep!
5. When they have awakened, they come up from their den to see if they can see their shadows.
6. If it is a cloudy day (no light) the groundhogs go back to sleep for six more weeks of winter.
7. If the sun casts a shadow (light's on) they stay out of the den and celebrate an early spring.

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