by Adria F. Worsham
Illustrated by Mernie Gallagher-Cole
Interest Level: PreK-2
Reading Level: PreK-2
Picture Window Books
This is part of an entire series that follows Max experiencing unique activities such as going to the grocery store or in this case, Groundhog Day. This book explains the concept of Groundhog Day simply enough for a pre-reader to understand it and uses basic enough words that an early reader can read it on his/her own!
Fluffy Meets the Groundhog
by Kate McMullan
Illustrated by Mavis Smith
Interest Level: K - 3
Grade Level Equivalent: 1.9
Scholastic
This is a cute book, especially if your kids have a guinea pig at home or in their classroom at school. Since our guinea pig would continually beg for carrots every time we opened the refigerator door, my kids were particularly tickled when Fluffy thinks "who ever heard of too many carrots?" This would work well to read the day before Groundhog Day. The teacher tells a 4-line poem to teach the basis of Groundhog Day. Getting excited, the children create "Groundpig Day" and decide various activities the guineapigs do will determine how much winter is left (running fast, jumping, etc.) In the book, each student writes a poem to explain their new legend, and I was thinking this would be a clever idea in a real classroom! Immediate creative writing assignment! I may do it next year! This is also part of a book series where the main character, Fluffy, has multiple adventures.
After reading these two books to my kids first thing this morning, we looked up this website to find out how much winter we have left. Seeing as how a blizzard hit our home last night my son jumped for joy to discover the groundhog did not see his shadow. My daughter started crying at the thought of no more sledding, snow angels, or snowmen. Oops! Momma needs to do a little more work teaching the 5 year old what fiction is!
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