Valentine's Day Activities

Celebrate the month of LOVE with this Valentine’s Day bundle! It includes activities, printables, crafts, and comprehension guides that can be adapted to meet the needs of your students. These activities are sure to keep your kiddos engaged and having fun throughout the entire month of February.

Here’s what you’ll get…

Valentine PowerPoint/Informational Book

Math

-Sweetheart Math – Students will estimate, sort, graph, and write candy heart equations. Each student will need an individual box or bag of candy hearts.

-Function Machine Frames and Arrows – Students complete frames and arrows problems (adding and subtracting 10 and 100). This activity goes great with my Function Machine Monster Math that can be purchased at my TPT store.

-Sweetheart Word Problems

Reading Comprehension Guides

-Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine by Herman Parish – setting a purpose, vocabulary, comprehension questions, word work (compound words, rhyming words, writing the date correctly)

-Love, Splat by Helen Lester – vocabulary, comprehension questions, word work (abc order, syllables, correcting sentences)

-Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine by Barbara Park

-Student Cover Sheet

-Chapter 1 vocabulary, 8 comprehension questions, word work (vowel sounds, syllables, verbs), making connections

-Chapter 2-3 vocabulary, 5 comprehension questions

-Chapter 4-5 vocabulary, 5 comprehension questions, verb tense, predictions, character traits

-Chapter 6-7 vocabulary, 4 comprehension questions, rhyming words, mental images

-Chapter 8 vocabulary, 5 comprehension questions, making connections

Reading Response Sheets

-Making Connections Response Sheet

-Visual Images Response Sheet

-Story Map

-SQ3R Nonfiction Reading Response Sheet - While using this strategy, students will need to survey the book and then form questions to guide their reading. After reading the book to the class, I usually let my students pair up and retell the story to a friend. We then get back together and I show each page of the book to allow time for students to determine if they left anything important out of their retelling. {I will be using this strategy with the book Valentine’s Day by Gail Gibbons.}

-Character Traits Response Sheet

Language Arts Printables

-Making Words – How many words can you make using the word Valentine?

-Sweetheart Writing – Students write a paragraph using phrases found on candy hearts. They must glue the phrases into their paragraphs.

-Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives – Students make a list of nouns, verbs, and adjectives that represent Valentine’s Day.

-Singular and Plural Noun Sort – Students cut and sort singular and plural nouns.

-Sweet Commas – Students add commas where needed.

-Valentine Card – No Homework!

Interactive Reading Notebook

This resource is a thematic supplement to your reading response journals, social studies journals, interactive reading notebook, etc. If you do not use journals, you can also glue on construction paper. The following standards are addressed {RL.1, RL.2, RL.3, RL.5, RL.9, RI.1, RI.2, RI.3, RI.7}

Writing

-3 webs (I love, I feel loved when, Valentine’s Day).

-Four Square Writing Organizer – To write a complete paragraph.

-Narrative Writing Organizer & Prompt {I Walked into my classroom on Valentine’s Day and saw LOVE glasses sitting on my desk. I put them on and realized that I had found magic glasses…}

-Writing Paper

-Love Glasses Craft, Examples, Patterns

6 Literacy Stations

1. Sweet {ed} Endings – Students sort words with {ed} endings into three groups: sounds like /ed/, sounds like /d/, sounds like /t/. All answers are recorded on the recording sheet.

2. Suffix Memory – Students work with a partner to match a root word to a suffix. If they make a match they get to keep the cards and record the word on the recording sheet.

3. Sounds of /f/ - Students sort words based on the common spellings for the phoneme /f/. {f, ff,gh, ph} Answers are recorded on a recording sheet.

4. Lovely Homonyms – Students read a clue card and find the homonym that fits the clue. This activity can also be played as a memory game!

5. Delicious Homophones – Students match the homophone to the correct definition and sentence.

6. ABC Order – Students put cards in abc order and record their work on their recording sheet.

Valentine Table Headers & Editable Name Plates