Month: February 2017

Division 7 has been working on building the vocabulary needed to talk about story, such as setting, characters, problem and solution.  We have also been learning to retell the events in sequence.  We love the character in the story “Sneezy the Snowman.”  Sneezy  is so cold keeps doing things that cause him to melt, like drinking hot cocoa, sitting in a hot tub or warming himself by a fire.  It was so funny that we were inspired to make our own melted snowmen. 

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Being the budding scientists that we are, Division 7 decided to try predicting the weather for ourselves.

On February the 2nd, we went outside to look for our shadows.  We discovered that shadows are the shade that is made when something blocks out the the light.  We learned that if we move far from the light, we make a small shadow.  If we go closer to the light, we make a big shadow.  

As you can see, we predicted that we will have six more weeks of winter.  Given the weekend of snowfall, we think that we did a better job than the ” groundhognosticators”.  (get it?) 

Division 7 read a really fun book called “Groundhog Weather School”.   The story is all about teaching Groundhogs how to predict the weather.  Folklore says that on February the second, groundhogs come out of their burrows to look for their shadows.  If they don’t see their shadows, it means spring is here.  If they do see their shadows, it means they’ll be six more weeks of winter,  

Our math equations:

Groundhog – shadow = spring

Groundhog + shadow = winter

We decided to make a graph about what we thought Wiarton Willie, Canada’s famous albino groundhog, would predict for weather this year. Then we analyzed our responses:

We watched a video clip that showed that Willie did not see his shadow, and so he predicted that we would have an early spring.