Groundhog Celebration Grade 2 Curriculum Map

This comprehensive Groundhog Day activity book offers teachers everything needed for a meaningful and enjoyable seasonal unit. The included Teacher Guide provides clear background information on the origins of Groundhog Day, the history of Candlemas, and the famous groundhogs of North America—including Wiarton Willie 🇨🇦 and Punxsutawney Phil 🇺🇸.

Students will love the highly visual worksheets, original stories, coloring pages, and hands‑on activities that explore mammals, shadows, weather predictions, and cultural traditions. Each activity is designed to be student‑friendly, print‑and‑go, and aligned with key learning objectives. ✏️🌈

🎯 Learning Objectives

• 🦫 Study the characteristics and habits of the groundhog
• 📖 Explore legends, superstitions, and how traditions are passed down
• 🌗 Investigate shadows through simple experiments
• 🎉 Learn about Groundhog Day/Candlemas and its celebration across North America
• 🧠 Strengthen literacy, math, science, and creative thinking skills 

Introduction & Teacher Guide

Teacher Notes:

• Objectives
• List of Resources
• List of Vocabulary

Teacher Information:

• Information on Groundhogs
• Information on the Legend of Groundhog Day
• Information on the Legend of Wiarton Willie
• Information on Wiarton’s Groundhog Day Festival
• Information on Punxsutawney Phil (A United States Groundhog)

Information on Shadows & Science Ideas

Teacher Input Suggestions

Poetry and Song

List of Skills

Student Activity Tracking Sheet

Answer Key

✏️ Skills Covered

🔤 Phonics Activities

• “Gr” sound
• Vowel review
• “Sh” digraph

🧩 Word Study

• Alphabetical order
• Syllabication
• Rhyming words
• Word search

📚 Reading

Reading Tips for the Teacher

• Grumpy Groundhog’s Adventure
• Recalling details
• Synonyms, compound words, antonyms, rhyming, syllabication
• All About the Groundhog
• Recalling details
• Sequencing

💡 Brainstorming

• Animals that live underground
• Small animals

✍️ Creative Writing

• Alliteration
• Writing a legend

✒️ Printing

• Copying and illustrating poems

🔢 Mathematics

• Recording time
• Two‑digit addition
• Counting by twos
• Ordinals

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