There was a ground squirrel named Skippy. Ground squirrels like Skippy need to gather food to help support them while they hibernate, or sleep throughout the winter. Skippy was a fun-loving ground squirrel that liked to play. Ground squirrels like Skippy need to gather food to help support them while they hibernate, or sleep throughout the winter. Unfortunately, because she liked to play so much, she never worked on things that she was supposed to do. As winter approached, this became an issue. The week before winter was set to arrive, all the little squirrels were preparing for hibernation. Skippy’s mother told her to go look for acorns next to the great oak tree by the lake. As Skippy bounded over to the oak tree, she saw her friends swimming in the lake. She decided …show more content…
On the last day, her mother asked her, “Where are all of the acorns that I sent you to get this week?” Skippy quickly replied, “Oh, I’ll bring them to you tomorrow,” even though she hadn’t gathered any. “All right,” her mother said, wondering whether Skippy was telling the truth, “make sure that they are in our log by tomorrow evening, when we go into hibernation.” Skippy told herself, “I’ll get all the acorns I need tomorrow, and then I’ll be ready to hibernate.” The next morning Skippy left her log, determined to gather as many acorns as she could by the end of the day. But when she got to the great oak tree, she was alarmed to find that all of the acorns were gone! “Where did they all go?” Skippy shouted, as she panicked. For the next few hours, she ran around to each of the oak trees, desperate to find a single acorn, but all of them had already been gathered. Skippy ran home to try to tell her mother, but she had already fallen asleep. So for the next four cold months, Skippy was awake, and had to scavenge for