Seasons and holidays
Fall Leaf Portrait
Find a real fall leaf, look closely and draw its portrait: the veins, the edges and every color.
Thinking sheet · Seasons and holidays
Will the Groundhog See Its Shadow?
Make your Groundhog Day prediction, tally the class votes and check the result.
- Grades
- K–3
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Seasons and holidays
- Kids practice
- predicting, tallying, shadows
What kids do
“Will it see its shadow? Make your guess!”
- Shadow: six more weeks of winter
- No shadow: early spring
- Class votes
- I predict… because… What really happened:
How to run it
- Explain the tradition in a sentence: if it’s sunny, there’s a shadow.
- Kids draw both outcomes, then vote.
- Check the news on February 2 and circle the right one.
Talk about it
- What makes a shadow?
- Can a groundhog really predict the weather?
- How else could we predict spring?
Take it further
Go outside and check for your own shadow.
Pairs well with
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