Groundhog's Day Off activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Groundhog's Day Off Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Robb Pearlman's book. Read aloud the picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.   THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH: ◼️ READING STRATEGIES ☐ making inferences ☐ making predictions ☐ making connections ☐ visualizing ☐ analyzing illustrations ☐ plot | problem and solution ☐ identifying genre ☐ sequencing   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ advocation   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ adjectives ☐ colon ☐ commas ☐ italics   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: Groundhog is getting tired of the same routine year after year. He wishes the tourists and reporters would ask him personal questions for once, rather than focusing on the weather. He decides that he is going to take a vacation. Before heading to the spa, Groundhog leaves a note to the people explaining they’ll have