One of the fun things about homeschool (for me personally anyway) is that we get to learn about holidays that we don’t actually celebrate.  My family celebrates many holidays but not all the ones that appear on a calendar as a holiday.  We do not celebrate some of the traditional ones: New Year’s Eve, Groundhog Day, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and a few others.  

But with homeschool I want to build a foundation of knowledge and so I get to teach some of these holidays.  The kids love any reason to get a little junk food (and for us toast and jelly counts as junk food) and so they loved this day.

As most of my units of study or lessons begin, I look for some literature.  Groundhog Weather School by Joan Holub was a book I found at a consignment sale.  I like that it had the idea of Groundhog Day as well as some extra fun learning about groundhogs and weather.  So I based our day around this book.  I learned something new – groundhogs are in the same animal family as prairie dogs.  I absolutely had to pull out The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel.  I use their books alllllllllllll the time.  They are fun authors that used to come visit our elementary school and I fell in love with many of their books.  You will see me reference them often since I truly like their style.