Welcome to Bob the Groundhog's home Here are some Groundhog Valentine poems our Kindergarteners and First Graders worked on this week: Groundhogs are hairy                            Groundhogs are brown                                When it's winter time                                  They go underground      Groundhogs are weird                                     Groundhogs are cute                                     They eat leaves til the day is done Goodbye                                        Groundhogs are purple and pure                      Groundhogs are red              Groundhogs are brown                        Groundhogs are in bed         Groundhogs are brown          Groundhogs are tiny  ;;;;;;;;;;;  Groundhogs are cute                                       And very, very whiney                 Groundhogs are friends Groundhogs are fun Groundhogs are brown And they can run Groundhogs can dig  Groundhogs can chew Groundhogs can eat Then they scootle-do Groundhogs are special Groundhogs are brown Have you seen them in the grass? Have you seen them in the ground? Ground hogs are cute Groundhogs are funny He'll see his shadow When it's very sunny Kindergarteners and First Graders had many good questions about groundhogs for our research week.  We used the links below, and a couple of short videos, to learn that: Groundhogs eat mostly eat fruits and vegetables They sleep underground in their dens, which may be under buildings They can swim and climb trees They live in some parts of North America, like Maine, but not in Florida, Texas or California Groundhogs can get to be several years old They have 4-5 babies at one time The babies will hide if they get scared They are the largest member of the squirrel family Some of their enemies are dogs and foxes Groundhog Research: 1.  http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/groundhog.html 2.  http://www.hoghaven.com/ On the graph above you can see the usual February and March temperatures in the blue area.  In the red area you can see the temperatures that our Temperature Team students found on the internet during those six weeks. After looking at this graph, we voted that the Groundhog was wrong this year, because we feel like we are having an early spring.