Valentine Fun in Pre-K

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!

I wanted to share a few little tidbits from some of our Valentine's activities this week. We celebrate the day with a focus on friendship and family love with a card exchange and a few special treats for snack. 

I asked each family to work together to create a box to serve as a card holder for all those Valentine cards we exchange. Some of the families were VERY creative and came up with some wonderful boxes! 

Valentine Cruise Ship

Rock and Roll Guitar

 Princess Ballerina Box

Valentine Hearts 

 Princess Stickers

 Dirtbike Love

 Ladybug Love

 Mailbox

 Big Mouth Princess

 Pom Pom Collage

 Dora the Explorer Stickers and Smileys

 Glittery Hearts

 Lego Love

 Shark!

 Lots of Hearts

Recycled Soda Bottle Pig

We also had a few really cute homemade Valentine cards.

While I was out one day this week, some of the kids made these cute little love bugs to decorate our classroom door.

My students were VERY generous sharing all sorts of lovely Valentines gifts with me, but this little Valentine heart that one of my students made in art center definitely tugged at my heartstrings! It reads: 

"Dear Mrs. Ayn, You are the best teacher in the whole, wide world.Love, Kaitlyn"

Definitely a keeper for the scrapbook!

Another child drawing in art center made this little picture. "Look Mrs. Ayn, I made a love pattern! It's heart-"I"-heart-"I"-heart-"I"!

We've done a lot of math activities this week with Conversation Hearts. We've sorted, patterned and graphed them. We've read them and practiced reading and writing the conversations. This morning, estimated the number of hearts in a a heart shaped box then counted them out to check our guesses.

Later, we counted the number of letters on our hearts and graphed the results.

We've done a lot of singing and dancing this week. Today, with all the excitement building for the the party, we need to get some serious wiggles out. We put on "Love Shack" and started dancing our hearts out. Several of the kids grabbed a partner and started to do little waltzes. I would have never thought to waltz to "Love Shack", but sometimes, love just happens!

Hope your Valentine's Day was just a special as mine! 


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Valentine's Day Afterglow

Okay, so it's February 15 and Valentine's Day is officially over, but our Valentine's fun is still going on. I want to share a few of our activities and some of the great ideas I saw this year in classrooms.


Yesterday, we made cards for our parents...

We tried to paint with melted conversation hearts. It was definitely about process not product! The colors were to pale to actually show up on the paper, but it was fun to try! 

We've had lots of math going on! We made patterns with conversation hearts.

We also estimated the mass of a heart using candy.

One of my favorite moments was when one of my little friends discovered that if she stacked the hearts, she could get a lot more hearts on there. It was one of those "little illuminations" that I live and teach for!

We played this cute little "Roll A Bug" game... 

We have a cute little jar that is filled with conversation heart candies. We make a class chart of our estimates then take them out and count them together.

In Writing Center, some of the friends made their name in hearts....

Our families made some FABULOUS valentine boxes this year...

They also sent in some VERY creative Valentines!

 A diamond ring!

 "I Dig You!" with a little shovel and candies!

This Valentine has all the "write stuff"! A paper pencil made from candy!

These owl cupcakes were too sweet not to share here!

One of the highlights of my Valentine's Day was when this little guy came in before school and wanted a Valentine's hug to start his day before going to our "before school" program. What a great way to start Valentine's Day! :)

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