Valentine's Day
Poems & Songs
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Love
(Tune: Row Your Boat)
Love, love, it's all around,
It will grow with you.
Show it, tell it,
Feel it, share it.
Make it part of you!
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Skidamarink
Skidamarink a dink a dink,
Skidamarink a doo,
I love you.
(Repeat the 3 lines.)
I love you in the morning and in the afternoon.
I love you in the evening and underneath the moon.
Oh, Skidamarink a dink,
a dink,
Skidamarink a doo,
I love you! |
I'm a Happy Little Heart
(Tune: Little White Duck)
I'm a happy little heart
That's pink and white and red,
A happy little heart
With lace around my edge.
I have three words
On the front of me
That say "I Love You."
Oh, can't you see ?
I'm a happy little heart
That's pink and white and red.
Happy little heart ! |
I'm a Little Valentine
(Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)
I'm a little valentine
Red and white,
With ribbons and lace
I'm a beautiful sight.
I can say "I love you,"
On Valentine's Day.
Just put me in an envelope
And give me away!
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| Counting Valentines (Tune: "Ten Little Indians")
One red, two red,
three red Valentines
Four red, five red, six red Valentines
Seven red, eight red, nine red Valentines
Ten red Valentines.
Ten red, nine red, eight red Valentines
Seven red, six red, five red Valentines
Four red, three red, two red Valentines
One red Valentine. |
There's
a Big Red Heart
(Tune: "It's a Small World")
There's a big red heart down inside of me,
(Draw heart shape in air, then point to chest)
There's a big red heart no one else can see.
(Cover eyes with hands)
It is filled to the brim with love from within,
(Spread arms)
And now I give it to you.
(Point to another person) |
Five Pretty Valentines
Five pretty valentines
With lace galore,
I gave one to__________, (insert pupil's name)
And then there were four.
Four pretty valentines
So lovely to see,
I gave one to __________, (insert name of another pupil)
And then there were three.
Three pretty valentines,
Just made for each of you
I gave one to ___________,
And then there were two.
Two pretty valentines
Having so much fun,
I gave one to____________,
And then there was one.
One little valentine
Waiting for a special someone,
I gave it to____________,
And then there were none. |
I'm
a Valentine
for You
(Tune: "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain")I'm a teeny tiny valentine for you,
(Use a tiny, squeaky voice)
I'm a teeny tiny valentine for you,
I'm a teeny tiny valentine,
I'm always your, will you be mine?
I'm a teeny tiny valentine for you.
I'm a medium-sized valentine for you,
(Use medium voice)
I'm a medium-sized valentine for you,
I'm a medium-sized valentine,
I'm not too big and that's just fine
I'm a medium-sized valentine for you.
I'm a great big valentine for you.
(Use loud voice)
I'm a great big valentine for you.
I'm a great big valentine,
And I will love you all the time.
I'm a great big valentine for you. |
| The
Love Bug It begins with
a grin
(smile broadly)
It turns to giggle
(put both hands on mouth and giggle)
You start to laugh
(throw head back and laugh out loud)
Your legs start to wiggle (put feet in the air and shake)
You look all around for someone to hug
(move eyes back and forth)
What can you do
(shrug shoulders)
You've caught the love bug (hug another child or yourself)
ACHOOO! |
5
Little Hearts Fingerplay 5 little hearts, all in a row
The first one said,
"I love you so."
The second one said,
"Will you be my Valentine?"
The third one said,
"I will, if you'll be mine,"
The fourth one said,
"I'll always be your friend."
The fifth one said,
"We'll all be friends until the very end."
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Valentines
are Made to Share
(Tune: "Mary Had a Little Lamb")Valentines are made to share,
Made to share,
Made to share.
Valentines are made to share
With my friends at school.
I made you a valentine,
Valentine, Valentine
I made you a Valentine
That says " I love you". |
Love,
Love, Love
(Tune: "3 Blind Mice")Love, Love, Love
Love, Love, Love
See how it grows,
See how it grows.
I love my friends and they love me,
We love others and then, you see,
There's more than enough for a big family
Love, love, love,
Love, love, love |
H-E-A-R-T
(Tune: "B-I-N-G-O")To show you like your special friends,
Just give them each a heart.
H-E-A-R-T, H-E-A-R-T, H-E-A-R-T
Each heart says I like you! |
Three Red Valentines (Tune: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")
Three red
Valentines,
Each one with a bow.
Pretty and shinny and lacy, too.
Standing in a row. |
Literature
Connections
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Roses Are Pink Your Feet Really Stink
by Diane deGroat |
Froggy's First Kiss
by Jonathan London |
Arthur's Valentine
by Marc Brown |
Franklin's Valentines
by Paulette Bourgeois |
Valentine Cats
by Jean Marzollo |
Mama, Do You Love Me?
by Barbara M. Joosse |
Cranberry Valentine
by Wende Devlin |
The Valentine Bears
by Eve Bunting |
Guess How Much I Love You
by Sam McBratney |
I Love You the Purplest
by Barbara M. Joosse |
The Night Before Valentine's Day
by Natasha Wing |
I Love You With All My Heart
by Noris Kern |
The M&M's Valentine Book
by Barbara Barbieri McGrath |
Valentine's Day
by Gail Gibbons |
Balanced Literacy
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 Shared Reading
I Love
You, Good Night
by Jon Buller and Susan Schade
Read this patterned text book several times
As a response to the story, students will illustrate and complete the sentence pattern:
I love you like ____ loves ____.
Students may then enclose their work in a decorated pink or red paper valentine to take
home!
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Guided Reading
In your Guided Reading groups, look at the words
"like" and "love". Discuss the differences in word configuration,
vowel sounds, etc. Discuss similarities: Beginning consonants, silent "e".
These are high frequency words for most kindergarten children. |
Independent Reading
Level A
I Love My Family (Wright)
Level C
Love Is(Wright)
I Love My Family (Wright) |
Shared Writing
Make a Predictable Chart:
I love ______ because
_______.
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Interactive Writing
Brainstorm words associated with Valentine's Day... heart, love, hug, kiss, cupid, candy,
valentine, friends, etc.
Students will then create their own heart mobile using precut hearts and
"preassembled" (popsicle sticks hot-glued in an "X" shape)
hangers. They will tie 4 ribbons or pieces of yarn onto their hangers.
Students will write the Valentine words on their precut hearts and attach to the mobile. |
Independent Writing
*Draw
someone you love!
*What do you love to do?
*Create a "secret valentine" for someone in the class. |
Little Readers
"One Heart, Two Hearts"
The heart book is
a variation of "One Potato, Two Potato", a rhyme popular with young children. It
is good for number practice and number word recognition.
The Pages:
1. One heart
2. Two hearts
3. Three hearts
4. Four
5. Five hearts
6. Six hearts
7. Seven hearts
8. More!
Hearts are affixed to each
page to match the text. A varied supply of hearts makes the book interesting---stickers,
stamps, kid-cut hearts from foil or construction paper, heart shaped pasta, and hearts cut
with fancy edged scissors.
The Cover:
A shocking pink, lavendar, or
red cover looks nice. The cover can be decorated with two contrasting hearts or a myriad
of heart stickers. "One Heart, Two Hearts" can be cut and glued across the
cover. For a special effect, a 4-6" piece of yarn may be tied through a hole punched
in the spine, and heart pasta may be strung on the yarn in a pattern. The marker is a
popsicle stick with a heart sticker or heart pasta glued on the end. The marker's pocket
is a die-cut heart which has been glued on three sides |
Math Activities
Center Ideas
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Valentine Bingo
Prepare four heart-shaped cards. Write "I Love You" on them. For each player print a set
of alphabet letters, I, L, O, V, E, Y, O, U, on 1 1/2" hearts. Make a heart spinner
that has these letters printed also. Players take turns spinning. Use candy hearts to
cover the letter spun. |
Heart Puzzles
Decorate large hearts. Cut the hearts apart in as many pieces as you feel your children
can put back together. Store the pieces in plastic ziploc bags. |
Queen Of Hearts Land
In the housekeeping area add red dresses, red shoes, shirts, decorate the entire area with
large hearts. Make a few wands by using hearts made of construction paper and stapling
them to cardboard cubes. |
Writing
Center
Turn your writing center into a Valentine Post Office!
Stock the center with envelopes, stickers stamps, paper, valentines, etc.
Children can pretend to buy and sell stamps, and mail their valentines to theri
friends. Use an old box to make a mailbox. |
Math
Center
Children can practice addition and subtraction with
conversation hearts. For additional problem solving, ask the children to guess how
many conversation hearts will fit in a jar. They can predict and count. |
Science
Center
This is a good time to teach the children about their hearts.
Put stethescopes in the science center. let the children listen to their
heart beats at rest and then after exercise. What do they notice? |
Art
Center
Make valentines!!! Stock the center with a variety of art
materials, including construction paper, laces and doilies. |
Art Activities
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Valentine Mouse Need: Red, pink, and white Construction paper. Scissors, and
glue.
Directions: Cut
out a heart 5-6" tall. Turn it upside down, this is the body. Cut a heart 2-3"
tall for the head. Glue it to the body. Add small hearts for the ears and smaller ones for
the eyes. A heart turned upside down makes the nose and mouth. Cut some strait pieces for
whisker, And a long strait piece for the tail. Put a small heart at the end of the tall.
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Giant Hug
Need: Shelf paper, crayons, markers, collage materials, stickers, etc...
Directions: Give
each child a strip of shelf paper approx. 30" long. Trace child's hand at each end of
paper. Cut out. Then decorate the "hugs" with crayon, marker, collage materials,
cut out hearts, stickers, etc. Have kids dictate message they want to send home.
Sing the "Hug Song"
(tune: "Farmer in Dell")
I made this hug for you
To cheer you when you're blue
Heigh-ho, the derry oh
I made this hug for you! |
| Foil Heart
Need: Aluminum Foil,
Piece of red, white, or pink Construction paper, Glue, scissors, Red paint, and Q-tips.
Directions: Cut two
hearts out of aluminum Foil. Glue them on to the piece of construction paper. Have the
children paint the hearts with the Q-tips.
Makes a sparkly Valentine display! |
Heart Art
Use red
Playdoh, rolling pins, and lots of different heart cookie cutters.
Use cookie cutters and sponges dipped in paint to create pictures. |
Valentine Fish
Each child
will need one very large heart, one large heart, three middle sized hearts, and one little
one.
The very large heart becomes the body. The large heart becomes the tail. The middle sized
hearts become the fins on top of the very large heart. Last the little heart becomes
the lips of the fish. |
Translucent Hearts
Cut a large heart shape for
each child out of waxed paper. Pour vegetable oil into shallow containers and set
out cotton balls. Let the children tear red tissue paper into small pieces.
Have the dip the cotton balls into the oil and brush it over their waxed paper
hearts. Then let them press the red tissue pieces all over their hearts until the
shapes are covered. The oil will help the tissue pieces stick to the hearts while
making the red color translucent. |
Heart Men
& Women
Materials:
one large heart
one medium heart
ten small hearts
five tiny hearts
(it is best if you use a different color for these)
Directions:
Cut out large heart, this is the body. Add the medium one for the head. Use two small
hearts for each arm and three for each leg. Then use the tiny hearts for the eyes and
buttons. Use red construction paper for the man and pink for the eyes and buttons. For the
woman ,use pink construction paper with red paper for the eyes and buttons. After this is
all glued together let the children decorate them with markers. Let the children get as
creative as they want to. They sometimes add jewelry, clothes, beads, hair, shoes, etc. |
More Ideas
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A Special Package
I'm going to wrap myself in paper
I. going to stick myself with glue.
Put some stamps on top of my head
I.m going to mail myself to you!
Children create heart shaped valentines with their photograph in the center. Put the
words to the song under the photo. Place this valentine in an envelope and mail to
the children's parents. |
Alphabet Heart Mates
Make a necklace for
each child by cutting a heart shape out of posterboard, punching a hole in the top
and tying on a loop of yarn. Divide the heart necklaces into pairs. On each pair
print an upper-case alphabet letter and a matching lower-case letter. Give each
child a necklace to put on. Help the children identify the letters on their necklaces.
Then let them walk around to find their " alphabet heart
mates."
Variation: Write matching numerals on the pairs of necklaces. Or draw on matching shapes
such as circles, squares and triangles.
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Robot Valentine
Mailbox
Explain to students that they are going to create a mailbox for their valentines that
looks like a robot. Ask students to bring in anything that they think could be used to
create robot mailbox. Students can cover their supplies with colored tissue paper,
bulletin board paper, paint, color, etc. Help students hot glue their chosen supplies in
whatever way that they wish to create their robot. Remember to make a slit to put their
valentines inside the robot, and remember to create a way to remove the valentines. Set up
inside the room or in the hallway so the robots can receive their valentines. |
How to Cut Out
Heart Shapes
1. Fold a small, square piece of consturction paper (about the size of a child's hand or a
little larger) in half.
2. Place the fold of the paper in the crease between the thumb and index finger of the
hand not used for cutting. Place the thumb at an upward angle.
3. Trace around the thumb in a 1/2 heart shape.
4. Cut on line making sure not to cut along fold.
5. Open and enjoy! |
Hide the Heart
Materials:
Construction paper
String
Scissors
Procedure:
Take the pink or red construction paper and cut out a heart shape. At the bottom of the
heart poke a little hole and thread the string through it. Then tie the string in a knot.
The rest of the string should just hang down.
The game is done by having all the kids hide their eyes and one child is picked to hide
the heart. The only thing that should be showing is the string after the heart is hid.
Then when the child is done hiding it he or she says "heads up" and everyone
else goes and looks for the heart! The next child who find it gets to be the one who hides
it. Everyone only gets 1 turn each and if someone finds it more then once they pick
someone to be the one who gets to hide it! Let everyone have 1 turn and then the game is
over!! |
Follow the Directions
Distribute sheets of drawing paper and crayons and ask the children to follow step-by-step
verbal directions to complete a folding and drawing activity. Demonstrate how to fold the
paper as you give the following directions.
1. Fold the paper in half and then fold it in half again.
2. Unfold the paper. You should have four "boxes."
3. Number the boxes 1,2,3 and 4.
4. Draw one heart in box 1, two hearts in box 2, three hearts in box 3, and four hearts in
box 4.
5. Color the hearts red. |
Valentine Kisses
(Makes 4 - 6)
- Ingredients:
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- 6 cups Krispy Rice Cereal
- 1 Package Of Marshmallows
- 3 Tablespoons Margarine
- Vegetable Cooking Spray
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- Utensils:
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- Microwave Oven
- Large Microwave Safe Bowl
- Funnel Sprayed With Cooking Spray
- 12" Square Of Aluminum Foil For Each
Child
- 1" x 11" Strip Of Paper Per Child
- Waxed Paper
- Mixing Spoon
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- Directions:
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- Label each strip of paper to say "A Kiss
For You!" Follow directions on cereal box for making treats. Allow the mixture to
cool until easy enough to handle. Have children mold it in the funnel. Place on waxed
paper to cool completely before wrapping. Wrap kiss and strip in aluminum foil.
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