Groundhog Day

groundhogdayThere is a legend that says a few hundred years ago Europeans brought Ground Hog Day to America. They said that the ground hog wakes up from his hibernation on February 2. (February 2 is half way between winter and spring.) If he comes up from his hole and it is sunny, he will see his shadow and be frightened. If he sees his shadow, there will be 6 more weeks of winter weather. But if he comes up and the sky is cloudy, he will not see his shadow and will not be frightened. Then spring weather will come very soon. On Friday we made predictions of what we thought would happen on Groundhog Day and we made a graph. 15 children thought the ground hog would NOT see his shadow and 6 thought he would. We figured out using subtraction that 9 MORE children thought the Groundhog would not see his shadow. The subtraction sentence was 15-6=9.