Interesting Facts about Groundhogs

• Groundhogs are diurnal, which means they are active during the day.
• Groundhogs like to dig tunnels under the ground.
• They can live to be about 6 years old.
• They can move more the 700 pounds of dirt digging one burrow!
• Groundhogs can swim.
• They are excellent tree climbers.
• Their predators are foxes, coyotes, raccoons, and farm dogs. 
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No Punishment

Don’t ever, ever use reading or writing as a punishment. Reading and writing should be fun!!!The goal is to teach your children/students that reading and writing are fun forms of entertainment. Using reading or writing as punishment will destroy any previous progress made. Let your children/students eat and drink, sit anywhere, and listen to music while they read and/or write then they will love to read and write for life.  

Daily Reading Tip

Allow students to provide testimonials on a daily basis of strategies they use while they read. It is important for students to recognize one another's different learning styles and how they deal with adversity when reading.

Questioning Skills

To practice students’ questioning skills, choose a student to be “it”. The questioner asks a number of “wh questions” (who, what, when, where, why) and the student who is “it” must answer the “wh question” with “bananas”. The aim of the game is for the student who is “it’ to make the questioner laugh (e.g., if the questioner asks, “Who is your favorite athlete?”, the student who is “it” would answer “bananas”). The student who is “it” can think of anything. The object is to see how many “wh questions” the questioner can think of (e.g., the student can show a number, like five and challenge the questioner to ask at least five “wh questions”; the next questioner would have to think of six “wh questions”, and so on).