{"id":3038,"date":"2017-02-05T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2017-02-05T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:55:47","slug":"groundhog-day-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2017\/02\/05\/groundhog-day-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/groundhog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"208\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3039\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/groundhog.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/groundhog.png 208w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/groundhog-94x108.png 94w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sans-serif;'>Division 7 read a really fun book called &#8220;Groundhog Weather School&#8221;. &nbsp; The story is all about teaching Groundhogs how to predict the weather. &nbsp;Folklore says that on February the second, groundhogs come out of their burrows to look for their shadows. &nbsp;If they don&#8217;t see their shadows, it means spring is here. &nbsp;If they do see their shadows, it means they&#8217;ll be six more weeks of winter, &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style='font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sans-serif;'>Our math equations:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sans-serif;'>Groundhog &#8211; shadow = spring<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sans-serif;'>Groundhog + shadow = winter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sans-serif;'>We decided to make a graph about what we thought Wiarton Willie, Canada&#8217;s famous albino groundhog, would predict for weather this year. Then we analyzed our responses:<\/span><span style='font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sans-serif;'><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"308\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3040\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow3-224x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow3-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow3-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow3.jpg 523w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sans-serif;'><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"479\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3041\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow2-300x224.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow2-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow2-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow2-145x108.jpg 145w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2017\/02\/shadow2.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sans-serif;'>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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Division 7 read a really fun book called &#8220;Groundhog Weather School&#8221;. &nbsp; The story is all about teaching Groundhogs how to predict the weather. &nbsp;Folklore says that on February the second, groundhogs come out of their burrows to look for their shadows. &nbsp;If they don&#8217;t<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2017\/02\/05\/groundhog-day-math\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}