{"id":7486,"date":"2023-02-05T14:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T22:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2023-02-12T13:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T21:09:54","slug":"7486","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2023\/02\/05\/7486\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fun Facts About Groundhogs! | Groundhog Day | SciShow Kids\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wfrq11bowOw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\"><strong>On February 2<\/strong>, a groundhog is said to forecast the weather by looking for his shadow. If it&#8217;s sunny out, and he sees his shadow, we&#8217;re in for six more weeks of winter. On the other hand, a cloudy Groundhog Day is supposed to mean that we will have an early spring.\u00a0 We celebrated <strong>Groundhog Day<\/strong> by learning all kinds of amazing groundhog facts &#8211; including what they eat, where they live, and how they make it through tough winters!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">We also went outside to see if we could see our shadows, and we did <strong>not<\/strong>. . . so we predict that we will have an early spring!<a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/A324B35F-D6AD-4A04-989D-4DF7BA5D4958.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7484\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/A324B35F-D6AD-4A04-989D-4DF7BA5D4958.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/A324B35F-D6AD-4A04-989D-4DF7BA5D4958.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/A324B35F-D6AD-4A04-989D-4DF7BA5D4958-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/A324B35F-D6AD-4A04-989D-4DF7BA5D4958-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">This made us curious about shadows, so we learned how to make shadow puppets with our hands.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/D1DC6403-1086-4E83-A996-E3B44924B887.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7485\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/D1DC6403-1086-4E83-A996-E3B44924B887.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/D1DC6403-1086-4E83-A996-E3B44924B887.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/D1DC6403-1086-4E83-A996-E3B44924B887-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2023\/02\/D1DC6403-1086-4E83-A996-E3B44924B887-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">You can try this at home!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Make Animals Shadow Puppets with Your Hands\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t8YZ8QKwBzY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 2, a groundhog is said to forecast the weather by looking for his shadow. If it&#8217;s sunny out, and he sees his shadow, we&#8217;re in for six more weeks of winter. On the other hand, a cloudy Groundhog Day is supposed to mean<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2023\/02\/05\/7486\/\">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":[182],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486"}],"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=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}