![]() ![]() Or, you may like this paper plate heart hat as an alternative. Glue crinkly arms that move or wave like a big hug and hands onto the headband to give it a complete look. Your students cut the pieces from construction paper or color theirs if you use white paper. Make a cut and paste Valentine hug headband with wavy arms. Your students will predict and compare what happens when the candies are placed in water, soda and vinegar. If you’d rather skip comparing candies (as in the experiment above) and just stick with one kind, then choose this candy heart experiment instead. Here’s a video of the experiment so you can preview what’ll happen in your classroom:Ĭonversation heart candy experiment source: Kinders compare candy hearts, gobstoppers, and m&m’s in water (or Sprite, depending on the candy) and record their observations. Let your students compare what happens to three different kinds of candy in small groups. This is a great activity for the week of Valentine’s Day as it will appeal to both boys and girls. ![]() Encourage students to completely color in the background – but you can add more valentine details too. This directed drawing for a heart robot turns out really cute. Swap out your writing time or carve out a few extra minutes from your daily routine to insert one of these mini-projects for Valentine’s Day. ![]() These freebies are from various teachers so you’ll need to follow the links in order to download them. So, let’s start with some mini-projects since these may be “extra” activities and then jump into the resources and activities that would fit into your normal day. You may also want to read: How to celebrate any minor holiday in kindergarten It’s my style to keep it simple – like just pick one or two things from this list and incorporate them into your normal daily routine. Here are free mini-projects, reading resources, sight word activities, and math mats – all with a Valentine’s Day theme.ĭon’t feel like just because there are a lot of fun Valentine’s Day ideas for the classroom out there that you have to do a lot. There are also tons of new sight word activities to use each month in the Kindergarten Literacy Centers Bundle.Let’s plan fun Valentine’s day activities for the kindergarten classroom. Plus-when you read books aloud to students, always point out the high frequency sight words while you are reading! ![]() You could also try to create sight word mini books or have students read and sort their sight words. You can practice in a playful way such as writing them in chalk, rainbow writing or building with magnetic letters. You don’t have to make sight word practice boring: It’s important for students to master these types of words at a young age since they are seen in text so often so it will help students be more fluent in their reading as they grow older. Words like: “is, the, saw, little, not” (just to name a few). These are simply words that kind of “break the rules” in the english language and maybe don’t follow a specific spelling pattern but are seen frequently in text. These may also be referred to as high-frequency words. In preschool and kindergarten, young children start to be exposed to sight words to strengthen their reading skills. Introduce New Sight Words/ High Frequency Words ![]()
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