Valentine's Activities & a FREEBIE!!!!

What a week.....good thing it's a three day weekend.  But to bad I have Professional Dev. Monday.  Never a break......summer can't come soon enough this yr.  We had a busy week, did a little Valentine celebrating on Tuesday & learned about George Washington & Abraham Lincoln. 

If you haven't checked out my Dr. Seuss Mini Unit, click here to check it out.  It has all kind of fun centers to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday!!!!

Here is our week in review.......

On the search for the Sweetheart Snatcher

Found the 1st clue but no candy....they are used to someone taking their candy.....the Candy Corn Bandit came back in Oct.

We found our candy.  This was a great activity & we worked on inferences while walking around reading our clues.

The search is over....

After our search, we filled out a venn diagram comparing the candy corn bandit & sweetheart snatcher.  They did a great job  comparing & especially remembering back from Oct. ha

Valentine's Snack- donuts, chips, & drink.  Wired children afterwards!!!!  But you only celebrate once a year...RIGHT?!?!

Then after lunch came Valentine's day centers.  Measuring different size hearts.  I got all these ideas from different blogs & some are my ideas.

Candy heart writing.  They picked a candy heart & then wrote a sentence with that saying.  Oh so funny......some examples:  You are so fine.  Call me dude.

Sorting long & short vowels.

Tic Tac Toe using M&M's as the game pieces.

Measuring lines with candy hearts.  They needed to estimate 1st then measure & write the correct number.

Scoopful of hearts.....They took 2 scoopful of hearts & then graphed depending on what it said on the heart.

Craft-Pinterest idea

After their hands dried, they made a card for their parents.  I heart handprint art.......they are only that age for so long.

We wrote about George & Abe on Monday & Tuesday.  Then they picked 1 to publish & make a poster.

Our next big unit is Fairy Tales.  Four weeks of fantasy, fairy dust & sparkles.  I love it!!!!  We do a week of the Three Bears.  On Thursday of the same week, we will have Teddy Bear Olympics.  Students bring in their favorite teddy bear & do many activities with their bear.  We do a TLC bear art, a cooking activity, 5 vanilla wafers & put frosting & a gummy bear on each cookie, for the 5 rings of the olympics.  Then we have some games.  The Opening Ceremonies is walking in a parade to a teddy bear song.  Then we play, bears in a bucket:  throwing plastic bears in cups to see who gets the most in, Bouncing Bears:  use a sheet, kids stand around in a circle, put all the bears in the sheet & shake it all around, Busy Bear Relay:  Have relay races where they are holding their bears, Obstacle course:  set up an obstacle course, using hula hoops, cones, etc. & they run through with their bears.  Click here for your free download of a poem, word search, Olympic card, & certificate.  Here are some pics of what you can get for FREE!!!  check back in 2 weeks to see it in action.

Card to color as they complete an activity

Certificate for participating

Poem to read that week

Thanks for stopping by.....hope you all have a great weekend.  I so wish weekend were just resting but they are catching up on everything!!!!!