Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Valentine's Day Fun!
Here are a few of the things we did to celebrate Valentine's day.
I had the kids each bring in an empty cereal box. We covered them in bulletin board paper, provided a wide array of adornments, and let the kids create! They really did a great job!
We wanted to make these stained glass tealights as parent gifts for Christmas, but we had a few parents bring in ornament crafts unexpectedly, so we put these off. It was good fine motor practice. The friends had to put glue on baby food jars, then covered with tissue. We added a coat of glue at the end to secure loose ends and provide a "finish". They are very pretty when lit. I think the parents will love these! An additional activity was to wrap them for the parents. We also added cards we made earlier in the week.
For our lobby display, we made "love bugs" out of pre-cut hearts. I am so proud of my little guys---they were so creative, even coming up with bug names for their creations!
We read the fun book, The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond.
We made our own version of the Valentine Tree for our classroom door to display some of the beautiful hearts the friends have made in our art center this week. Thanks to miller moments for the inspiration...I thought I knew all the Felicia Bond books! We also read a variety of books about Valentine's Day, the post office and writing letters.
Some of our table activities included a match/memory game with Valentine cards, heart themed size seriation, and a hearts matching game with uppercase/lowercase letter on each half of the heart. We used themed erasers, pom poms and ice trays for a variety of math games and fine motor practice.
This month, we also added a post office to our dramatic play area. We had a cash register, phone, keyboard, postcards, stamps and stamp pads. I used a pocket chart to make "mailboxes" for the students to deliver notes and mail to classmates. I'm proud that my center was an improvement over last year, after visiting Getting Messy with Ms. Jessi and seeing some of the great things she was doing in her post office center!
Sorting mail and delivering it. Each student has a mail slot in the pocket chart. There is even a slot for my assistant and myself!
We have had a lot of fun, but it has been hard work for both the adults and the kids in my class! I am looking forward to our upcoming winter break/furlough days!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
While the norm here on little illuminations is posting about our adventures in Pre-K, I have recently started teaching Sunday School. W...
-
As I've stated before, almost all of our boards end up covered in student work. As soon as we change the board background, we start po...
-
Our general classroom theme is fish, but I just love all the new owl decorations that are all the rage this year. I just couldn't res...
-
We are getting ready for a new school year, and teachers have been working themselves silly getting their rooms ready for the new classes. I...
-
I went to school today to try to finish up my room. My students arrive ready for action on Monday. I still have tons left to do (is a classr...
-
We started back to school earlier this month and everything seems BRAND NEW! The students are all new to Pre-K and some of them are new ...
-
We've got some really great bulletin boards this spring in our school, so I thought I would share them in case anyone needs a little...
-
SPOILER ALERT!!!! If you are reading this and you are a parent of a student in my class, your Christmas gifts from your child will be reveal...
-
A couple of weeks ago, was our "All About Me" week. This is a unit that I usually spend 2 full weeks on, but in order to fit a...
-
I've had several requests lately to post pictures and ideas of fall bulletin boards. Here are a sample of some of my fall boards (past a...
Thanks for the shout out on your blog. You have great ideas and I'm excited to be your new follower.
ReplyDeleteI love your blog...such great ideas. I run an in home daycare....but we do preschool work daily. I am excited to come across your blog, hope you don't mind if I follow! Please stop by and visit me sometime. Can't wait to see the other fun ideas you post.
ReplyDeleteHoly cow, Ayn, you do so much! This is a breathtaking catalog of brilliant stuff.
ReplyDelete(I usually do a better Valentines week, but my Chinese New Year material got in my Valentines material this year. Our sensory table featured rice, chop sticks, metal Valentines candy boxes, red envelopes, jewelry, and coins.) Tomorrow I'm giving the kids their Valentines in New Years envelopes.)
Thanks Miller Moments and Erin! I'm glad you stopped by!
ReplyDeleteTom, I am so doing a Chinese New Year theme next year. I'll be checking in with you for ideas!
Thank you for the shout out Ayn! It looks great!! Your Valentine projects are awesome! I think I'll try the stain glass tealight holders today. :)
ReplyDeletegave you an award on my blog today. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, that letter heart matching game is my favorite. What a cute idea!
ReplyDeleteI love your buggies:) You guys are really busy! Looks like you got an award today! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteI love your post office! It's adorable, as is your tea light activity. As a parent, I always appreciate receiving cute things from my daughter's preschool!
ReplyDeleteI can tell you are a good teacher lady! Fun week!
ReplyDeleteI am here from the homeschool hop, nice to meet you! I look forward to getting to know you!
ReplyDeleteHope you all come back again! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying visiting all the links, too! :)
Very fun blog... I will come back! I have gotten paid to do ECE for years... now I don't get paid but do the same job! haha! I will soon be working my homeschool ideas into my blog... right now it is a bit more random! Hope to see you visit one day soon!
ReplyDeleteJust Jenn~
What cute ideas, I just found your blog through we teach, I am so glad I did. I am looking forward to seeing the cute things that you do and trying some of them with my little girls!!
ReplyDeletePerfect for Valentines!!! My kids love writing notes so I am going to have to put together a post office this year. Thanks for sharing on the Every Day Sensory Play Ayn!
ReplyDelete