Groundhogs and 100 days

February 2nd was groundhogs day. Since I watch so little tv these days and don't get a newspaper yet, this day could have easily slipped by without me knowing if he saw his shadow or not! I happened to catch a mention somewhere so we had to celebrate that evening.

The kids painted tree logs with black paint.
And painted a few pictures. See below the final product!
Ladybug uses www.pebblego.com to do her research projects at school so we looked up the groundhog, aka the woodchuck and were able to print out a picture and label all of his parts from his small ears to his feeling whiskers to his black hands and feet. Batman was not as excited to write about what he eats and his parts as he was to paint.

Then we watched the whole groundhog ceremony on you-tube. I had no idea how elaborate the whole set up is. Google it if you want. But the kids had fun watching Punxsutawney Phil decide that it would be spring soon!

Then on Friday we had a snow day from school. Ladybug celebrated 100 days of school this week so we had our own 100 day counting going on at home.
Up first was Ladybugs bows!
And would you believe it we pulled alllll of her bows out and there were exactly 100! But it was time to get rid of some. We threw away 22 (which were either old, dirty or poorly made) and we moved another 15-20 into a bag for her to decorate her dolls and horse tails. And we only put back up her favorite ones.
Then it was snack time. We counted out 100 pieces of snacks.
M&M, peanuts, marshmallows, cheese-its, chocolate chips, cheerios, etc. Batman can almost count to 100 with a little help.
They really enjoyed the snacks.
And here are our groundhogs. We made brown groundhogs and taped them to a stick and pulled them through the bottom of the tree log and the groundhog could pop up and down.
Then for dinner we made mashed potatoes. We counted all the cubed pieces of potato that we cut up to put in the water. We ended up with more than 100 of these.