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Books
to Read |
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The
Night Before Valentine's Day
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Snow
Valentines
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Clifford's
First Valentine's Day
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Arthur's
Valentine
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Won't
You Be My Kissaroo?
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Franklin
Says I Love You
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Clifford's
Valentines
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The
Day it Rained Hearts
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Valentine Bears
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Center
Activities |
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ABC
Match
Cut
out red, white, and pink hearts. Then label each heart with an
uppercase and a lowercase letter on each half of the hearts.
Then have hearts laminated. Cut hearts in half. Children need to
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Poetry
Write
a poem on a piece of tagboard or chart paper. Read the poem
together in class often. Then provide paper with the poem also
written on the bottom portion of page. Allow children to draw a
picture to go with the poem on the top portion of page.
Collect
poems from each month to create a poetry book, or put poems in a
Memory book for students to take home at end of year. |
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File
Folder Games
Provide
file folder games relating to Valentine's Day for children to complete.
An
example can be found at this website::
Preschool
Printables
Or
you can make up one of your own.
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Sorting
activity
Using
candy conversation hearts, provide a sheet with hearts on it.
Have children sort hearts into groups by color. To extend the
activity provide a sheet to write how many of each color they
had, and then graph it onto a bar graph. Compare with other
students to see how similar or different their graphs are. |
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Candy
Hearts
Provide
a cup of candy hearts and a sheet of blank hearts for students
to write messages onto the blank hearts. Students will pick a
heart a copy the message onto their sheet. Then color the
hearts.
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Art
Activities |
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Valentine
Wreath
Cut
out the center of a large paper plate. Attach red, white, and
pink hearts to the ring to make a wreath. I encouraged my
students to try and make a pattern with the colors they chose to
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Heart
Creatures
I
have done this art project with 1st graders, but not
Kindergarten.
Each
child cuts out an assortment of large, small and medium sized
hearts. Then try to create an animal from the hearts.
I
found a similar idea at this website:
Kids
Domain |
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Valentine
Handprint
Paint
the children's hands with pink or red or white paint. Keep their
fingers together, and press onto paper in the shape of a heart.
Write this poem underneath:
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Links |
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Mrs.
Ballingall's Valentine's Theme |
KinderTeacher
Valentine's Ideas |
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KinderThemes
Valentine Page |
Mrs.
LaBoon's Valentine Theme |
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abcteach
Valentine page |
Virtual
Vine Valentine's Day |
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Mrs.
Fischer Valentine page |
Little
Giraffe's Valentine page |
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Teaching
Heart Valentine |
KinderKorner
Valentine |
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Bee
Happy Teaching Valentine |
Mrs.
Stewart Valentine Unit |
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