Let students have fun learning with these groundhog themed centers and activities. There are groundhog themed math centers, groundhog themed letter activities, graphing and tracing activities in this packet.

What Is Included:

Page 2: Word wall cards

Page 3: Shadow Matching: Match the shape with its shadow.

Pages 4-5: Letter Mazes

Pages 6-7: Number Mazes (1-10 and 1-20)

Pages 8-10: Groundhog's Day Emergent Reader

Page 11: Counting Page

Page 12: Picture Addition Page

Page 13: Graphing Page

Page 14: Pattern page

Page 15: Greater than, less than and equal too practice with pictures.

Pages 16-20: Tens Frame and number matching center

Pages 21-22: Patterning Center

Pages 23-24: Graphing Activity: Students predict if the ground hog will see its shadow by coloring the correct groundhog and placing it on the graph, or under the correct category.

Page 25: Roll and Cover Dice Game

Page 26: Count by building with snap cubes or blocks

Page 27: Fives Frames

Page 28: Tens Frames

Page 29: Fill in the missing number

Page 30: Fill in the missing letter

Page 31: Order by size

Page 32: Letter Matching (Capital and Lowercase letters)

Page 33: Number Order (1-10)

Page 34: Letter Sorting

Pages 35-37: Tracing pages

These Groundhog's Day alphabet clip cards are the perfect way for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice letter recognition and matching capital and lowercase letters. Students can also practice building fine motor skills by using clips to mark each letter.

What is Included:

There are 4 clip cards for each letter of the alphabet. Activities include matching the capital letter to a matching capital letter, matching a lowercase letter to the matching lowercase letter and matching capital letters with the correct lowercase letters.

How to Use:

Students will take one clip card, look at the letter on the groundhog card and then clip the letter that matches. The teach may choose to use small manipulatives, like mini erasers, bingo chips or counters to mark each correct response. The cards can also be laminated for students to use dry erase markers to mark correct answers.

Where to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Morning Tubs or Baskets

Skills Assessed

• Recognizing and identifying capital and lowercase letters
• Matching a capital or lowercase letter to their letter counterpart

These Groundhog's Day letter clip cards are a low prep option for teachers to give to students to complete. The cards simply need to be printed and cut apart before being placed inside a learning station.

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Alphabet Activities

Where is his Shadow? This Groundhog's Day alphabet game is great for students who are practicing letter sounds or letter recognition. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for a Preschool, Pre-k or Kindergarten classroom.

Ways to Use

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific letters for struggling students

How to Play

Where's his Shadow? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where the groundhog's shadow is hidden behind a groundhog. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the letter they think the shadow is behind. Once guessed, the letter is removed. If the shadow is behind the groundhog, then it must be hidden again to play further. If the shadow is not behind the groundhog, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed. This game has letters in both capital and lowercase forms.

More Alphabet Centers and Activities

Hands On Alphabet Mats

Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

These groundhog counting cards for numbers 1-20 are perfect for practicing counting up to 20. They will go great with a Groundhog's Day theme. Students practice counting within tens frames and can practice number word recognition for numbers 1-10.

There are two sets of cards that provide two levels of differentiated practice. One set of cards have the number and the tens frames blank so students must correctly count to the number by placing manipulatives in the tens frames. The other set has the tens frames already marked with fire so students who need a little extra guidance can simply over lay their counters to complete the card.

Help the groundhog find its shadow by tracing the path from the groundhog to the shadow on these tracing cards with a Groundhog's Day theme. There are two sets of tracing line with 52 cards each (for a total of 104 cards) with a variety of tracing lines including curves, loops, zig zags and more!

These tracing cards give students practice with handwriting by having them trace a variety of lines. They help guide students to follow the line from left to right to mimic how students will eventually learn to write words and sentences and these lines allow students to practice pen control.

There are two sets of cards in this product:

• The first set has a decorative boarder where you can print on white paper.
• The second set has no border so you can print on colored paper and save on ink!

Ways to Use

• Writing Center
• Fine Motor Center
• Write and Wipe Activity
• Morning Tub or Basket
• Independent Center
• Small Group Activity
• Table Top Center

These fine motor cards and perfect for a writing center. By laminating each card or placing the full pages in page protectors you can create a write and wipe activity and use them over and over.

You can turn these cards into a fine motor center by adding mini erasers or other small objects for students to place along the line. Add tongs for more fine motor fun! You can also use cotton swabs and paint to dot the lines.

Skills Targeted:

• Following a line by tracing (tracing skills)
• Moving from left to write when writing
• Pencil control
• Hand eye coordination
• Building fine motor skills

These tracing cards and the markers or manipulatives used to complete them can be stored in a pencil box for easy set up, clean up and storage.

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Alphabet Dot Painting

Pouch Top Alphabet Mats

These Groundhog's Day themed letter and number cards and puzzles are a great activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters and matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.