Valentine's Day



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Curriculum Ideas Exploring

“Friendship” and

Valentines DaY

Valentine’s Day

Curriculum Goal – To assist children in identifying people that are special in their lives, and how to express and convey warm and positive feelings towards others.

Vocabulary:

- Valentine - Special

- Groundhog - Post Office

- Shadow - Love

- Friendship - Cupid

- Velcro (Letter V) - Mail

Letter of the Week: V Colors of the Week: Red and pink

Concepts:

- Valentine’s Day is a day when we let our friends and people that are special to us know how much we like and love them

- The heart shape represents (means) love

- Groundhog Day is February 2nd. If the groundhog sees his shadow, it will be cold for 6 more weeks. If he doesn’t see his shadow, it will be warm outside soon.

- Shadows are the outline of objects when a light source or the sun hits them

- Being kind to our friends is the right thing to do, and a good way to show them that we care about them

- We all have people that are special to us. Valentine’s Day is a good day to think about them.

- There are people that love us, no matter what.

- We can send letters to others if we know the name where they live (their address) and put a stamp on it. The post office sorts the letters, then mail carriers deliver them to who they should go to.

Sensory Table Ideas:

Shredded red, pink &/or white paper. For younger children – Velcro a non-breakable mirror onto the bottom of the sensory table, to be “discovered.”

Art Activities:

- Add red, pink, white paper; paper lace doilies; tissue paper; lace; ribbon; paper punch

circle holes out of red and pink; red, pink and white yarn; pompoms, to your Art area

- Have red, white, pink paint at the easel. Mix/Make pink. Cut easel paper in a heart

- Make heart stencils and cards. Children can trace the heart shaped candy boxes

- Make Heart Mobiles. Show children how to fold paper to cut out hearts.

- Make red or pink playdough and use with Valentine and heart-shaped cookie cutters

- Trace the outline (shadow) of children’s side profile (put lamp – with

shade taken off - behind child. Tape piece of paper to wall. Trace outline)

- Add red or pink color to your glue (or red glitter)

- Make Valentine prints (or cards) with heart/valentine cookie cutters

- Make a friendship cooperative collage (pictures of working together/friends)

- Letter “V” Collage (from old magazines) ; or a color Red collage (or 3-D red items)

- Show children how to fold paper in half, and cut to make a “heart” when unfolded

- Have children color over pieces of sandpaper cut into heart shapes

- Cut sponges into heart shapes to sponge paint with. Clip a clothespin onto the

back for a “handle”, or attach a large safety pin for children to hold onto.

- “Bleeding hearts” Cut a large heart out of white posterboard or paper. Thin glue with water, then brush glue onto heart. Place pieces of tissue paper onto “heart.” When dry, spray with water. Let dry again, then peel off tissue paper – leaving a pattern of colors blending.

- Make “kisses” from prints of children kissing paper with red or pink lipstick on.

(Use individual q-tips to ensure sanitation)

- Friendship Quilt (with each child completing a square, to be joined together)

- Decorate a bag for Valentines; or paperplate with ½ plate cut/stapled on as a pocket

- Striped Hearts (Tape strips of paper onto a pre-cut heart. Let children paint heart. Pull off paper strips, revealing a stripe pattern on the heart.

- Valentine Heart-shape marble painting Variation: Golf balls or ping pong balls

- Decorate a Heart and glue onto a craft stick, making a “Valentine Fan”

- “I Love…” pictures for the children to complete sentence with a drawing

- Bundle shades of red, pink and white crayons together with rubberband. Color with.

- Heart Weaving – Cut out 2 hearts, same size, different color. Cut strips ¾’s in from top of heart (at the curves). Weave both – under, over, under, over - making a heart

- Using liquid starch, paint/glue pastel pieces of tissue paper onto a heart-shape paper

- HeartShape creations Ex: Heart “Fish” - Large heart for body, small heart for “fin”

Cooking Experience

Valentine Decorating. Have children spread white frosting onto graham crackers,

then ‘decorate’ with sprinkles or tubes of colored frosting; Or Cut cheese into heart shapes

Friendship Salad - Have children each bring in a piece of fruit to contribute

Community Time: (“Circle Time”/”Group Time”)

Monday: Take dictation from the children on a large sheet of paper, writing their responses to the question: “What do we know about Valentines Day?”… (Display chart)

Tuesday: Ask and discuss: “What things happen on Valentines Day? Why?”…

Wednesday: Write responses: “What words do we know that begin with letter “V”?

Thursday: Ask and discuss: “What are ways we can be good friends?”…

Friday: Recap: “What did we learn this week about friends and Valentines Day?”…

Follow with books, songs and fingerplays related to the curriculum theme. Discuss with children what their choices are for the morning, and what activities are new in the classroom for the day. Dismiss a few at a time in fun, creative ways related to the theme, encouraging thinking. Reinforce all friendship efforts/behaviors displayed by children.

Math Activities:

- Heart Counting

- Heart Matching 2 of each pattern, ideally from discarded wallpaper books

- Number Mailboxes Place that many “letters” in that mailbox

- Sort Conversation Hearts candies by color; Sequence patterns from candy hearts

- “Broken Heart” puzzles (with number matching, one set on each pair)

- Candy Conversation Heart graphing, patterning, &/or matching activity

- Graph children’s responses to: “Do you like the color pink or red better?”

- Heart/Dice counting game. Roll dice, take that many. First to get 10 “wins”

- Estimation Activity. Place Conversation Candy Hearts, Red Hots, or Hershey Kisses into a clear container. Have children make guesses as to how many are in there. At the end of the week, count together and share with children.

- Cut pieces of red yarn different lengths. Children match size &/or put into order

- Have “Valentine Hunt”, counting Valentines that have been hidden in room

Home/School Connection Ideas:

- Ask parents to dress children in something with red or pink in it on a specific day

- Ask parents to work with their children on learning their addresses. At school, children can draw a picture, address an envelop to their home, and mail it.

- Ask parents to bring in Valentine’s. (Children can “sign” them, if they wish, but usually they are too young to address them to each other – they can just pass them out randomly to each other.) Have extra, in the event a child doesn’t bring them.

- Ask parents to bring in a piece of fruit to make a cooperative “Friendship Salad”

- Make “Coupon Book” for parents with special things the children can do for them

Science Table Enrichments:

- Place a white carnation in water that has been colored with red food coloring.

- Mix red food coloring with water and small amount of cooking oil (in a sealed

plastic soda bottle.) Children shake and watch separate. Add confetti for fun.

- Add pictures of a real human heart and a stethoscope.

Science Concepts/Activities:

- Talk about the human heart. Have children feel their heart beat in their chest.

Run in place and have them feel it again. Count. Discuss. Count and chart the number of beats in 30 seconds for each child. Listen to a pet heartbeat if possible.

- See if the local American Heart Association will have a Rep come in

- Make a “Healthy Heart” Collage (items/food good for the heart)

- Mix/make shades of pink (red/white paint or white frosting/red food coloring)

- Study shadows (Groundhog Day): Make a shadow matching file folder game;

trace children’s outlines; make shadows with a flashlight; chart outdoor shadows, etc

Prop Box Ideas/Dramatic Play Enrichments:

- Create a “Flower Shop” – flowers, arrangement styrofoam blocks, cash register, small

cards, bud vases, baskets, pictures of flowers, etc.

- Add Post Office props – a blue shirt, a mail carrier hat, a duffle bag, a

“mailbox,” junk mail, envelops, “stamps” (stickers), stamper/stamp pad, etc.

Movement and Motor:

- Valentine Limbo (Cover a stick with red streamer. Children must say something nice about a friend before going under the Valentine Limbo Stick)

- Valentine Heart Bean Bag Toss

- Rig-a-Jig Jig (circle game choosing and dancing with a partner in the middle)

- Valentine “Freeze” (when the music stops children must find a friend to hug)

Playground/Walk Activities:

- Friendship Walk. Have children hold the hand of a friend.

- Groundhog Shadow Tag

Transition/Waiting Ideas:

- “What can you see that begins with the letter ‘V’?”

- “If you are wearing pink you may…”

- “Who can tell me something red in our room?”

- “Who knows what kinds of things we can do to be a good friend?”

- “Who can name a friend?” (Or Hug-a-Friend!)

- Have children name a friend as the next child to be dismissed after them…

- Play “Valentine Says” (Version of “Simon Says”}

Block Area Enrichments:

- Make block “shadows” for the shelves to make clean up easier. Bring to the attention of the children, using as an opportunity to talk about shadows.

- Draw a red heart onto blocks of wood for children to sand off with sandpaper

- On a piece of wood, start screws for children to finish in outline of a heart shape.

Flannel Board:

- Make/Add heart shaped flannel board felt pieces; Also – “A Valentine for Kitty”

Teacher Made Enrichment Ideas:

- Make heart-shaped lacing cards out of red file folders or posterboard

- Valentine matching or memory game. Buy a package of Valentines.

Take out all but two of each. Children then match, or turn them over and

play “memory.” (Can also use matching Valentine stickers on index cards)

- Heart Puzzles. Cut out 6 – 8 heart shapes, all of the same size. Then cut

in half in different ways, making them into puzzles to be matched up - to make a complete heart. Make a math activity by writing a number on one half, and putting the corresponding number of dots on the other side; Or – Cut the heart cards from a deck

- Make an Address Matching File Folder Game. (“Mailboxes” and “Letters” to match)

- Large Heart Number Puzzle. Cut out 2 big, identical matching hearts. Cut one heart into smaller “pieces”, placing a certain number of valentine-related stickers on each piece. Trace the outline of the cut shapes of the pieces onto the intact, complete heart shape. Write the corresponding number into each piece outline. Children match the number of stickers on the pieces to the number on the base, making a heart puzzle on top

- Copy patterned hearts (included.) Glue onto craft sticks. Use with children while

doing Valentine fingerplay’s, having children participate by holding one up.

- Heart-shaped stencils. (Cut out heart-shape from center of plastic butter lid.)

- A ‘Letter Box’ with small trinkets and objects, beginning with the letter “V”

- Fill clear, plastic soda bottle with oil and water tinted red, confetti. Glue shut.

- Valentine Toss. Cut out several large hearts. Assign numbers to each one. Place on the floor and have children throw bean bags, trying to land on the hearts;

Or – children can hop or jump from one to another; Or – play like musical chairs

- To make large “Hershey’s Kisses”: Cut the top off of a water bottle (to resemble a funnel.) Cover with aluminum foil. To make an edible kiss – shape Rice Crispie treats in a funnel, before they get hard. Cover with foil.

Field Trip Ideas: (Contingent on location and accessibility)

- Visit the local Post Office; Or Ask Mail Carrier to visit when delivering mail!

- Ask a florist to come in and show the children how flower arranging is done

- Research if there is a local American Heart Association branch in the area

Supplemental Learning Ideas/Activities:

- Lace white, red &/or pink beads onto a red pipecleaner. Bend into a heart shape.

- Have children create a group “Friendship Book” (with pictures); Or Write a story

- Heart Suncatchers. Shred red and pink crayons with a cheese grater. Children place shavings onto a piece of wax paper. Teacher puts 2nd piece of wax paper over it, and presses it with a slightly warm iron, melting crayons. When cool, trace, then cut heart shapes out. For toddlers – Place shavings between 2 pieces of contact paper, sticky side up - skipping the iron.

- Conversation Candy Heart picture frames. Cut the front of the boxes off (the packaging) of Conversation candy hearts (with the clear plastic window.) Place child’s picture behind clear plastic window of the front packaging, as a “frame.”

- Friendship Chain. Have children work together, linking and glueing cut strips of paper together, making chain. Variation: write positives about children on strips

- Stuffed Hearts Children lace/sew 2 hearts the same size together. Stuff. Seal.

- Secret Hearts Cut hearts out of white paper plates. Write valentine messages with a white crayon. Children “discover” the message when they paint over the hearts with watercolors. Variation: Children draw pictures for each other

- “Friendship Jar” Start a jar in which every time you “catch” the children doing

something nice or being a good friend, you place a jelly bean or candy heart in it.

The goal is to fill the jar – and to acknowledge and reinforce positive behavior.

- “Web of Love” Children in a circle, throw a ball of red (or pink) yarn to a friend (after wrapping some yarn around their wrist) Untangle!

- Make “Squishy” Sensory bags. (Ziplock baggies, pink hair gel; seal & tape shut)

- Make Valentines for a local nursing home; Or Do a community service project.

- Take all of the Lego’s out of the bin except for the red and white ones this week

- Write children’s response to: “I am a good friend because…”

- In small groups, or individually, use hearts to review/reinforce concepts.

(colors; above/below; on top of; to the side of; under, etc…)

- - Cut cheese slices, sandwiches, Jello jigglers, etc, in heart shapes - Add plastic flowers and plastic vase to Homeliving Area

- Make a “Valentine Tree”. Children make and hang hearts.

Supplies needed for activities/projects:

- Colors of red, pink and white construction paper, paint and crayons

- Red food coloring (or dry tempera)

- Can of white frosting/graham crackers

- Candy conversation hearts

- Sprinkles or tubes of colored frosting

- Playdough ingredients (flour, salt, oil)

- Large sheets of easel paper (dictation)

- Red felt for flannelboard

- Index cards (for Memory Game, Heart Sequencing)

- Sandpaper

- Paper doilies (if you can find them)

- Paper lunch bags (white, if possible)

- Wax paper

- Contact paper

- Heart-shaped paper punch

Bulletin Board Ideas:

“Be Mine!”

“Love Spoken Here”

“A Teacher’s Mailbox is Filled with

Love” (“mailbox” with teachers name;

hearts with each child’s name on one)

“Baby Be Mine” (for Infant Rm)

“All We Need is Love”

“You’ve Got Mail!”

“A Big Box of Sweethearts”

“Heart-y Art!”

“We LOVE to Learn!”

Books:

Be My Valentine by Miriam Cohen

Valentine’s Day by Gail Gibbons

It’s Valentine’s Day by Jack Prelutski

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown Charles Schultz

Best Friends by Myra Berry Brown

Dandelion by Don Freeman

Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

The Three Friends by Robert Kraus

Will I Have a Friend? by Miriam Cohen

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Activity ideas from: The Mailbox – the Idea Magazine for Teachers

♥ Sweetheart Frames

Take four craft (Popsicle) sticks and glue the edges together to form a square frame. Using sweetheart conversation heart candies, have the children glue the candies onto the frame. Let dry. Once the frames are dry, attach a picture of the child, or they can draw a special picture to frame. Cut picture to fit into the frame. Variation: Use Candy Hearts for a collage

♥ “Thumb-ody” Loves You! Pencil Holder Gift

Teach children how to cut various sizes of heart shapes from white or pink construction paper. Using red tempera paint, decorate the heart shapes with thumbprints. Set the hearts aside to dry. Personalize and write “Thumb-ody Loves You!” on a 4 ½ “ x 8 ½ “ piece of white paper, to fit around a clean 12 oz juice can. Have children glue hearts with thumbprints all around the juice can/pencil-holder. Variation: Children can do a thumbprint picture with phrase written on it

♥ Valentine Pockets/Holders

Cut off a third of a paper plate. Staple the large cut plate to a full plate to make a pocket. Beginning at the tope of the pocket, use a hole puncher to punch an even number of holes along the rims of the plates. Have the children lace the plates together, sewing, with a yard of red yarn. When the lacing is complete, tie the yarn into a loop at the top of the pocket. Decorate the pocket by using heart cutouts, crayons, glue confetti pieces, Valentine stickers, sequins, glitter, lace, ribbon, tissue paper, etc. . .

♥ Sweetheart Sticky Art

In advance, pour corn syrup into several squeeze bottles. Add several drops of food coloring to tint each portion a different color; then stir/shake well. Have each child cut out a large red, pink, purple or white heart, preferably on hardstock paper. Child squeeze the tinted corn syrup onto the cutout, making a design. Have child sprinkle glitter on top of the wet syrup. Syrup will need to dry for several days.

( “I Love You This Much” Accordian Hands

Children make a heart with a ‘face’ on it, and trace and cut out their ‘hands.’ Cut a log strip of paper and fold it back and forth to create an ‘accordion.’ Place accordion between ‘hands’, connecting them to look like outstretched arms. Write “I love you THIS MUCH!”

♥ Easel Painting Collages

Expand children’s paint experiences by adding tactile materials to art/easel center. Hang a bag or have a tray containing pieces of red, white and pink tissue paper; fabric scraps; cellophane wrap; yarn and dollies, etc. by the easel. Children can paint a picture, then press a choice of objects into the wet paint, to create a collage.

On-line Valentine’s Day games/activities:

Copy for a Valentine Matching File Folder game, patterning, &/or for “10 Little Valentines” :

Variation: Cut hearts out of old, donated, discarded wallpaper sample books

Season

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Valentine’s Day

Words in Spanish

Valentine’s Day Dia de los Enamorados

Love Amor

Friend Amigo

Cupid Cupido

Arrows Flechas

Heart Corazon

Chocolate Chocolat

Flowers Flores

Pink Rosado

Red Rojo

I love you Te quiero

Valentine cards Tarjeta de los enamorados

y la amistad

OUR CLASSROOM

HAS A MAILBOX

Our classroom has a mailbox

That we painted red and gold.

We stuffed it with more Valentines

That it was made to hold.

When we opened it this morning,

I was nervous as could be.

I wondered if a single one

Had been addressed to me.

But when they'd been delivered

I felt twenty stories tall.

I got so many Valentines,

I couldn't hold them all.

By Jack Prelutsky

February

By Judith A. Lindberg

bold, eventful

brimming, loving, remembering

collection of hearts, history

scrapbook

valentine

dimensional, enigmatic

searching, shaping, reciprocating

unique blend, prismatic friend

mosaic

sunday morning light

foliage of dew-touched leaves

valentine rose

the essence of love

comes within a gift of compassion,

a vision of heartlight.

angelic whispers

rose petal dreams drifting

valentine wishes

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Some Valentine’s Day History:

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The celebration of “Valentine’s Day” dates back to the middle ages. The word “cupid” comes from the Latin word “cupido”, which means “desire.” In Roman mythology, Cupid is the son of Venus, the Goddess of Love. Cupid resembles an angel, shooting humans with arrows, forcing them to fall in love.

Another legend is that Valentine was a priest during the third century in Rome. He secretly married couples when Emperor Claudius outlawed marriage, in the hopes of creating a better military of single men.

Still another legend is that an imprisoned man fell in love with his jailers daughter. Before he died, he wrote her a love letter and signed it “Your Valentine” – sending the first Valentine.

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| What would you get if you crossed a dog with a valentine card? |

|A card that says, "I love you drool-ly!" |

| What did the painter say to her boyfriend? |

|"I love you with all my art!" |

| What does a man who loves his car do on February 14? |

|He gives it a valenshine! |

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| What did the man with the broken leg say to his nurse? |

|"I've got a crutch on you!" |

| What do you call two birds in love? |

|Tweethearts! |

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| What do you call a very small valentine? |

|A valentiny! |

| What did Frankenstein say to his girlfriend? |

|"Be my valenstein!" |

| Why did the boy put clothes on the valentines he was sending? |

|Because they needed to be ad-dressed! |

|Why do valentines have hearts on them? |

|Because spleens would look pretty gross! |

|Did you hear the one about the phoney Cupid? |

|He was totally bow-gus! |

|Why is Valentine's Day the best day for a celebration? |

|Because you can really party hearty! |

|What happened when the two angels got married? |

|They lived harpily ever after! |

|What did one piece of string say to the other? |

|"Be my valentwine!" |

|What did one fir tree say to the other? |

|"Be my valenpine!" |

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|What does a carpet salesman give his wife for Valentine's Day? |

|Rugs and kisses! |

Love Is the Soul of Hearts

Susan Polis Schultz

Love is

the meaning of poetry

the inspiration of dreams

the passion of dance

the music of songs

Love is

the spirit of souls

the spirit of emotion of hearts

Love is

the poetry of dreams

the dance of songs

and the

Soul of hearts.

|A Valentine For Kitty |

|Adapted from Preschool |

|Materials your will need: |

|1 sheet of red or pink construction paper |

|scissors |

|felt figures for a cow, horse, goat, duck, kitty and barn |

|flannel board |

|Prep - Set out the flannel board with the horse, cow, goat, duck and barn. |

|Story: |

|It was Valentine's Day, February 14th and something special was going to happen on the farm! It was the day that kitten was coming to live at|

|the farm. The barnyard animals were busy eating their breakfast when Horse said, "We must make a valentine to welcome Kitten!" |

|"What could we make?" asked Goat. |

|"It has to be something special," said Cow. |

|"I know," said Duck, spying a pretty piece of red paper. "We could give her this piece of red paper." |

|"Let me see that," said Horse. Taking the paper, (fold paper in half) he began nibbling around the paper (cut 1/2 of a large heart shape along|

|the fold line). "How is this?" (Unfold the heart letting the scrap of paper fall to the floor and show the heart.) |

|"Oh, that's much too big for a kitty," said Cow. "Let me see that." (Refold heart and cut a smaller 1/2 heart shape letting the scrap fall to |

|the floor.) Cow munched around it. (Unfold heart.) "How is this?" |

|"Oh, that's still much too big for a kitty," said Goat. "Let me try." (Refold heart in half and cut a smaller 1/2 heart letting the scrap fall|

|to the floor.) Goat chomped around it. (Unfold heart.) "How is this?" |

|"Oh, that's still much too big for a kitty," said Duck. "Let me try." (Refold heart in half and cut a smaller 1/2 heart letting the scrap fall|

|to the floor.) Duck pecked around it. (Unfold heart.) "Let's see, no, this isn't quite right." (Refold heart and cut 1/2 a heart shape.) |

|"How's this?" asked Duck. |

|"Perfect," said Horse. |

|"It's just the right size," said Cow. |

|"Wonderful," said Goat. |

|"Shhhh," said Duck "here she comes." |

|"Slowly, Kitten walked into the barn. (Place kitten onto the flannel board.) |

|"Hello! Welcome to the farm!" said the animals. "We have a valentine for you." (Hold up the heart and place it by the kitten.) |

|"Thank you!" she said happily. Then Kitten looked down at the barn floor and saw all the scraps of red paper. She picked them up, one at a |

|time, and said, "Here is a valentine for you Duck! (Place fourth heart on flannel board next to the duck.) |

|"Here is a valentine for you Goat!" (Place third heart on flannel board next to the goat.) |

|"Here is a valentine for you Cow!" (Place second heart on the flannel board next to cow) |

|"And here is a valentine for you, Horse!" (Place the first heart on the flannel board next to the horse.) |

|It was a very happy day when Kitten came to the farm! |

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|What about the fifth heart shape scrap? It's Kitten's valentine to your class! |

Forever

in Your

Heart…

Although you’re not their mother

You care for them each day.

You cuddle, sing and read to them

And watch them as they play.

You see each new accomplishment

You help them grow and learn.

You understand their language,

You listen with concern.

They come to you for comfort

And you kiss away their tears.

They proudly show their work to you

You give the loudest cheers!

No, you’re not their mothers,

But your role is one that’s strong.

You nurture them and keep them safe

Though maybe not for long.

You know that the time will come

When you will have to part

But you know each child you’ve loved

Is forever in your heart.

Teaching children the concepts of small, medium and large/sequencing:

Variation: Cut heart shapes from wallpaper books for this activity. (Also for patterning)

Pass The Heart

Pass the heart around,

pass the heart around.

Pass the heart along,

pass the heart around.

Pass the heart around,

as we sing this song.

It is Valentine's, it is Valentine's,

It is Valentine's Day

It is Valentine's,

it is Valentine's, It is Valentine's Day

And we pass the heart this way,

when the music stops

When the music stops,

and the heart is in your hand

When the music stops,

when the music stops

Enter Valentine's Land!

** Have the felt or bean bag heart for the children to pass. When the music stops the child holding the heart goes and sits in Valentine's Land (a specific place in your classroom or

center of the circle); Or – Variation: Play like “Hot Potato” with a new piece of candy each time. Child that ends up with candy gets to keep it and leave the circle. Eventually, every child will “win” and get a piece of candy (or a prize.)

“ I Love You”

in Sign Language

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Love comes in many languages…

To make a letter matching game: Write the capital upper-case letter on one ‘heart’, and the small, lower-case letter on another ‘heart’, (to be matched by the children that are familiar with the alphabet.) A number matching game can also be made by writing a number on one heart, then a certain number of ‘dots’ or stickers on another one, to be matched up.

Valentine’s Day Fingerplays

Adapted from “Finger Frolics” by Cromwell, Hibner, & Faitel

Pretty Valentine

Valentine’s Day Bingo:

A Day For Love

Friends

|More Valentine's Day Fingerplays/Songs |

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|Valentine's Day |

|If I could be the postman |

|For just one single time, |

|I'd choose to carry Valentines |

|So lovely and so fine. |

|I would not mind the heavy load, |

|Or mind my tired feet. |

|If I could scatter happiness |

|All up and down the street. |

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|HEART (Tune: B-I-N-G-O) |

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|To show you like your special friend, |

|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. |

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|Valentine For Granny |

|Dear Granny, here's a valentine; |

|I made it just for you; |

|This rosebud and this paper lace |

|Are fastened tight with glue. |

|This little heart I painted red, |

|These flowers I made blue, |

|And Granny, look, here are the words, |

|"Dear Granny, I love you." |

|~ Solveig Paulson Russell |

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|With A Friend |

|I can talk with a friend |

|and walk with a friend |

|and share my umbrella in the rain |

|I can play with a friend |

|and stay with a friend |

|and learn with a friend |

|and explain |

|I can eat with a friend |

|and compete with a friend |

|and even sometimes disagree |

|I can ride with a friend |

|and take pride with a friend |

|A friend can mean so much to me! |

|Vivian Gould |

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5 Little Valentines

Five little valentines were having a race

The first little valentine was frilly with lace.

The second little valentine had a funny face.

The third little valentine said, "I love you".

The fourth little valentine said, "I do too".

The fifth little valentine was sly as a fox.

He ran the fastest to the valentine box.

Friends Friendship

Friends share I can run with my friend!

Friends care! and have fun with my friend

I have friends And get wet out in the rain,

Everywhere!

I can sing with my friend

My Friend and swing with my friend

I have a friend And make a Friendship Chain.

I can’t tell you the name

But we have fun it’s true, I can hide with my friend

We sing our songs, and slide with my friend

And play our plays, And build a castle of blocks,

Have you guessed?

It’s you! I can cry with my friend

But I won’t say bye to my friend

We go together like a pair of socks!

A Friend of Mine

______________is a friend of mine,

We take turns when we play,

Sometimes we don’t see eye to eye,

We’re still friends all the way!

HEARTS ON THE MOVE

“He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”

Wave your valentine

In the air.

Wave your valentine

In the air.

Wave your valentine

In the air.

Wave your valentine in the air.

Put your valentine

On your [nose].

Put your valentine

On your [nose].

Put your valentine

On your [nose].

Put your valentine on your [nose].

Repeat the last verse, replacing the underlined word with other body part words in turn, such as head, arm, and foot.

VALENTINES POEM

Love is a circle,

Round and round (make a circling motion with arm)

Love goes up,  (raise arms up)

And Love comes down, (lower arms)

Love is on the inside, (pull hands inward towards chest)

Trying to get out, (pull hands away from chest)

Love is whirling and twirling about!  (move hands in a spinning motion)

Red Valentines

One red valentine says I love you

_______made another and then there were two

Two red valentines, one just for me

________made another, then there were three

Three red valentines we need one more

_______made another, then there were four

Four red valentines, well sakes alive!

________made another and then there were five

Five red valentines, made just today,

Be my valentine is what they say!

VALENTINE FINGER COUNTING PLAY

Let's count valentines

one, two, three.

Let's count valentines

all for me!

Let's count valentines

four, five, six

Lets count valentines

match and mix

Let's count valentines

seven, eight, nine

Let's count valentines--

I'm glad you're mine.

MY VALENTINE HEART

When I say I love you (Point to lips)

it comes from my heart (hand on heart)

you hear it in your ear (point to ear)

and it sounds very smart (point to head)

I love it when you're proud of me (stand very tall)

You say it all day long (stretch arms wide)

and when I hear you say it (point to ear)

my heart sings a merry song (hand on Heart)

Yes, This is a Special Day

(Tune: Oh Dear, What can the Matter Be?)

Yes, yes, this is a special day,

Yes, yes, this is a special day,

Yes, yes, this is a special day,

I can give hearts to my friends.

Hearts

Hearts on the mailbox.

Hearts on the door.

Hearts on the window.

Hearts on the floor.

Hearts on the cake.

Hearts on the box.

Hearts on the shoes.

Hearts on the socks.

Hearts on the table.

Hearts on the chair.

Hearts on the wall.

Hearts everywhere!

THE MAILBOX POEM

I went to mail a letter and slid right in the box

All that you could see of me were my tennis shoes and socks.

I self addressed my elbow and air-mail stamped my knee.

Soon I would be ready for the next delivery.

I folded like an envelope and in a day or so. . .

I'll go with all the letters to Japan or Mexico

Mail Myself To You

I'm gonna wrap myself in paper.

I'm gonna dab myself with glue.

Stick some stamps on top of my head.

I'm gonna mail myself to you.

I'm going to wrap myself in paper

I'm going to stick myself with glue

I'm going to tie a BIG bow on me

I'm going to mail myself to you.

I'm gonna tie me up in red string,

I'm gonna use blue ribbon too.

I'm gonna climb up into your mailbox.

I'm gonna mail myself to you.

Mail Carrier Song

Tune: "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"

I get to sort the mail,

Then carry it to your home.

The mail comes from all over,

Like New York, Paris, and Rome.

Mail, mail, mail, mail,

I love to deliver the mail, mail, mail.

Mail, Mail, Mail, Mail,

I love to deliver the mail.

In His Mail Truck

Tune: "She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain"

He'll be coming in his mail truck when he comes,

He'll be coming in his mail truck when he comes,

He'll be coming in his mail truck,

He'll be coming in his mail truck,

He'll be coming in his mail truck when he comes.

he'll be wearing his blue uniform.......

he'll be bringing a package for me......

he'll bring mail for mom and dad.....

he'll pick up letters from our mailbox....

Do you carry great big boxes,

Heavy like they're filled with rocks?

Do you drive a mail truck?

In the Mailbox

Tune: "Are You Sleeping?"

In the mailbox, in the mailbox,

Look and see, look and see!

A package or a postcard!

A letter from my grandma!

Just for me, just for me!

In the mailbox, in the mailbox,

Look and see, look and see!

A magazine that's dandy!

A valentine with candy!

Just for me, just for me! 

It's no bigger than your fist... but it's one strong pump. It beats 100,000 times a day,

pumping 2,000 gallons of blood through 100,000 miles (Miles!) of organic tubing.

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|The right side pumps blue (venous) blood to the lungs. | |

|The left side pumps red (arterial) blood everywhere else. | |

|Inside of the heart: If you were a blood cell, you would | |

|enter at the upper left, through the vena cava. This big | |

|vein collects old, tired oxygen-depleted blood from all | |

|over the body and routes it to the right atrium. | |

How does a healthy heart do it? Essentially, the heart is a big hunk of muscles and four valves, hooked together to make a two-stage pump. Like all muscles, the heart gets its energy by oxidizing blood sugars (the oxygen also comes from the bloodstream). This energy -- released at about 5 watts -- contracts the heart's many muscle cells, and the four chambers squeeze blood out in the proper direction. Or that's the plan, anyway.

The heart has a pair of two-stage pumps for pushing blood through the body. When the right atrium squeezes, it pushes blood through the tricuspid (three-toothed) valve into the right ventricle. Like the other three heart valves, this is a one-way valve -- blood can only flow through in one direction. When the right ventricle contracts, it pushes blood through the pulmonary valve, and on into the lungs. Because it doesn't take much pressure to get blood to the lungs and back, the right side is smaller than the left.

The blood, now rich in oxygen, returns from the lungs through the pulmonary veins into the left atrium. Events on the left are essentially a high-pressure replay of what we've already seen, but of course the names have been changed to keep those red blood corpuscles from getting confused.

From: The American Heart Association

Drawing of an actual human heart:

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Discuss: Does it look like the ‘heart shape’ we are used to seeing?

Activity: Teach children how to take their pulse (count heartbeats.) Take pulse at rest, then after physical exercise. Discuss.

Activity: Explore a pump and how it works

Activity: Learn the words to the song on the Bayer aspirin commercial about how the heart works

Activity: Call and see if a representative from the American Heart Association will visit

Activity: See if you can borrow a stethoscope and use it with the children.

Heart Fingerplay

I am a heart and I go beat, beat!

(clap hands)

I pump blood when you eat

(pretend to eat)

I pump blood when you jump up and down

(jump up and down)

I pump blood when you run around

(pretend to run)

I pump blood when you stomp your feet

(stomp feet)

I even pump blood while you sleep!

(pretend to sleep)

HEART LINKS

Real Heart

A Kid's Heart

In A Heartbeat

How Your Heart Works

Electric Heart

Heart Index of Links

Healthy Heart

Heart Lessons

Heart Online Exploration

Biointeractive Sites-Heart

Heart

Heart Links

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Have children think of and list all of the kind and nice words they can think of. Write them on heart shapes; Discuss and display.

Valentine's Day

Little red hearts

Are meant to say

I'm thinking of you

On Valentine's Day.

I like to be with you

To talk and to play.

We're all special friends

On Valentine's Day!

~ Sharon Siegelman

How Do We Show People We Care About Them?

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|Did you give your friends valentines and little heart-shaped candies on Valentine's Day? Do you ever cross your heart when making a promise that | |

|you really, really mean? Or turn on the radio to hear a guy singing about his broken heart? | |

|We see and hear about hearts everywhere. A long time ago, people even thought that their emotions came from their hearts, maybe because the heart | |

|beats faster when a person is scared or excited. Now we know that emotions come from the brain, and in this case, the brain tells the heart to | |

|speed up. So what's the heart up to, then? How does it keep busy? What does it look like? Let's find out. | |

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|Working That Muscle | |

|Your heart is really a muscle. It's located a little to the left of the middle of your chest, and it's about the size of your fist. There are lots | |

|of muscles all over your body - in your arms, in your legs, in your back, even in your behind. | |

|But the heart muscle is special because of what it does. The heart sends blood around your body. The blood provides your body with the oxygen and | |

|nutrients it needs. It also carries away waste. | |

|Your heart is sort of like a pump, or two pumps in one. The right side of your heart receives blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs. The | |

|left side of the heart does the exact opposite: It receives blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the body. | |

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|We Got the Beat | |

|How does the heart beat? Before each beat, your heart fills with blood. Then its muscle contracts to squirt the blood along. When the heart | |

|contracts, it squeezes - try squeezing your hand into a fist. That's sort of like what your heart does so it can squirt out the blood. Your heart | |

|does this all day and all night, all the time. The heart is one hard worker! | |

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|Heart Parts | |

|The heart is made up of four different blood-filled areas, and each of these areas is called a chamber. There are two chambers on each side of the | |

|heart. One chamber is on the top and one chamber is on the bottom. The two chambers on top are called the atria (say: ay-tree-uh). If you're | |

|talking only about one, call it an atrium. The atria are the chambers that fill with the blood returning to the heart from the body and lungs. The | |

|heart has a left atrium and a right atrium.. | |

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|The two chambers on the bottom are called the ventricles (say: ven-trih-kulz). The heart has a left ventricle and a right ventricle. Their job is | |

|to squirt out the blood to the body and lungs. Running down the middle of the heart is a thick wall of muscle called the septum (say: sep-tum). The| |

|septum's job is to separate the left side and the right side of the heart. | |

|The atria and ventricles work as a team - the atria fill with blood, then dump it into the ventricles. The ventricles then squeeze, pumping blood | |

|out of the heart. While the ventricles are squeezing, the atria refill and get ready for the next contraction. So when the blood gets pumped, how | |

|does it know which way to go? | |

|Well, your blood relies on four special valves inside the heart. A valve lets something in and keeps it there by closing - think of walking through| |

|a door. The door shuts behind you and keeps you from going backward. | |

|Two of the heart valves are the mitral (say: my-trul) valve and the tricuspid (say: try-kus-pid) valve. They let blood flow from the atria to the | |

|ventricles. The other two are called the aortic (say: ay-or-tik) valve and pulmonary (say: pul-muh-ner-ee) valve, and they're in charge of | |

|controlling the flow as the blood leaves the heart. These valves all work to keep the blood flowing forward. They open up to let the blood move | |

|ahead, then they close quickly to keep the blood from flowing backward. | |

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|It's Great to Circulate | |

|You probably guessed that the blood just doesn't slosh around your body, once it leaves the heart. It moves through many tubes called arteries and | |

|veins, which together are called blood vessels. These blood vessels are attached to the heart. The blood vessels that carry blood away from the | |

|heart are called arteries. The ones that carry blood back to the heart are called veins. | |

|The movement of the blood through the heart and around the body is called circulation (say: sur-kyoo-lay-shun), and your heart is really good at | |

|it. It's so good at it that it takes less than 60 seconds to pump blood to every cell in your body. | |

|Your body needs this steady supply of blood to keep it working right. Blood delivers oxygen to all the body's cells. To stay alive, a person needs | |

|healthy, living cells. Without oxygen, these cells would die. If that oxygen-rich blood doesn't circulate as it should, a person could die. | |

|The left side of your heart sends that oxygen-rich blood out to the body. The body takes the oxygen out of the blood and uses it in your body's | |

|cells. When the cells use the oxygen, they make carbon dioxide and other stuff that gets carried away by the blood. It's like the blood delivers | |

|lunch to the cells and then has to pick up the trash! | |

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|Kidneys Are Filters | |

|Each time the blood circulates from the heart out to the body, about 20% (one fifth) of it goes through the kidneys. The kidneys filter out some of| |

|the waste before the blood heads back to the heart.  | |

|The returning blood enters the right side of the heart. It takes the blood to the lungs for a little freshening up. Carbon dioxide is left in the | |

|lungs to be removed when we exhale. What's next? An inhale, of course, and a fresh breath of oxygen that can enter the blood to start the process | |

|again. And remember, it all happens in about a minute! | |

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|Listen to the Lub-Dub | |

|When you go for a checkup, your doctor uses a stethoscope to listen carefully to your heart. A healthy heart makes a lub-dub sound with each beat. | |

|This sound comes from the valves shutting on the blood inside the heart. | |

|The first sound (the lub) happens when the mitral and tricuspid valves close. The next sound (the dub) happens when the aortic and pulmonary valves| |

|close after the blood has been squeezed out of the heart. Next time you go to the doctor, ask if you can listen to the lub-dub, too. | |

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|Pretty Cool - It's My Pulse! | |

|Even though your heart is inside you, there is a cool way to know it's working from the outside. It's your pulse. You can find your pulse by | |

|lightly pressing on the skin anywhere there's a large artery running just beneath your skin. Two good places to find it are on the side of your | |

|neck and the inside of your wrist, just below the thumb. | |

|You'll know that you've found your pulse when you can feel a small beat under your skin. Each beat is caused by the contraction (squeezing) of your| |

|heart. If you want to find out what your heart rate is, use a watch with a second hand and count how many beats you feel in 1 minute. When you are | |

|resting, you will probably feel between 70 and 100 beats per minute. | |

|When you run around a lot, your body needs a lot more oxygen-filled blood. Your heart pumps faster to supply the oxygen-filled blood that your body| |

|needs. You may even feel your heart pounding in your chest. Try running in place or jumping rope for a few minutes and taking your pulse again - | |

|now how many beats do you count in 1 minute? | |

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|Keep Your Heart Happy | |

|Most kids are born with a healthy heart and it's important to keep yours in good shape. Here are some things that you can do to help keep your | |

|heart happy: | |

|Remember that your heart is a muscle. If you want it to be strong, you need to exercise it. How do you do it? By being active in a way that gets | |

|you huffing and puffing, like jumping rope, dancing, or playing basketball. Try to be active every day! | |

|Eat a variety of healthy foods and avoid foods high in unhealthy fats, such as saturated fats and trans fats. | |

|Don't smoke. It can damage the heart and blood vessels. | |

|So now you know that your heart doesn't look like a valentine, but it sure deserves to be loved for all the work it does. It started pumping blood | |

|before you were born and will continue pumping throughout your whole life. | |

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The legend says St. Valentine

Was in a prison cell ...

Thinking of his little flock

He had always loved so well.

And wanting to assure them

Of his friendship and his love ...

He picked a bunch of violets

And sent them by a dove.

And on the violets' leaves

He pierced these lines divine ...

That simply said, "I Love You,"

And "I'm your Valentine!"

So through the years that followed

From that day unto this ...

Folks still send messages of love

And seal them with a kiss.

Because a Saint in prison

Reached through prison bars one day,

And picked a bunch of violets

And sent them out to say ...

That faith and love can triumph

No matter where you are

For faith and love are greater

Than the strongest prison bar.

~ Helen Steiner Rice ~

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A day for hearts and flowers,

The time to say you care;

A chance to tell your loved ones ...

You're glad that they are there.

But I wonder why we wait

Until this certain day,

To do those "special" things

And say those things we say?

Why not tell mate or lover

Each day the whole year through,

"Valentine, I'm glad you're mine,

And I surely do love you."

~ Abe ~

Copyright 1989

A Valentine for Teacher

Valentine, you often come to mind;

You’re a terrific Teacher,

one of a kind.

I’m sending this poem,

because I want to say

Teacher, I’m thinking of you

on Valentine’s Day!

To make a staff bulletin board:

Make a 3-D mailbox out of a rectangle box. Cut out hearts and put pictures of staff on each heart. Post poem. Have ‘hearts’ with pics overflowing out of the ‘mailbox’

MORE GAMES FOR VALENTINE’S DAY!

Heart Frisbee Throw

• turn paper plates into heart-shaped frisbees.  How far can the children throw a heart?

Heart Target Toss

• place heart shapes on the wall of the large motor room

• divide children into groups of 4 or 5

• the children see who can hit the heart-shaped target the most times in the group using a bean bag or ball

Hide a Heart

• children face the wall in the large motor room or outside with their eyes closed (nobody peeks)

• teacher places a heart in a pocket, hood or inside of a sweater showing only a small part of the heart

• the child chosen to have the hidden heart must keep this a secret

• once the heart is hidden, have children begin their search

direct different movements for the children to move while looking for the hidden heart (running, jumping, hopping, galloping, shuffling or marching)

Heart Relay

• make a paper or bean bag heart for each ‘team’

• children run to wall then come back to line and give heart to next child to do same

VALENTINE’S DAY QUOTES

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!  ~Thomas Hood

When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.  ~English saying used on poesy rings

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.  ~Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more

Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

~Rosemonde Gerard

Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.  ~Author Unknown

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.  ~Author Unknown

I claim there ain't

Another Saint

As great as Valentine.

~Ogden Nash

Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever.  ~unknwn

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown

A hundred hearts would be too few

To carry all my love for you.

~Author Unknown

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.  ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.  ~Author Unknown

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.  ~William Shakespeare

kisses are a better fate

than wisdom.

~e.e. cummings

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde

In melody divine,

My heart it beats to rapturous love,

I long to call you mine.

~Author Unknown

Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.  ~Robert Browning

Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.  ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.  ~George Moore

We loved with a love that was more than love.  ~Edgar Allan Poe

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.  ~Ben Hecht

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.  ~Henry Van Dyke

Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,

A song is no song 'til you sing it,

And love in your heart

Wasn’t put there to stay -

Love isn’t love

'Til you give it away.

~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"

I've fallen in love many times... always with you.  ~Author Unknown

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.  ~Judith Viorst

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth.  Why I need to live has been given to me by you.  ~Author Unknown

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.  ~Natalie Clifford Barney

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.  ~Robert Browning

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.  ~Zora Neale Hurston

Love is a game that two can play and both win.  ~Eva Gabor

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.  ~Author Unknown

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.  ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism

I love thee - I love thee,

'Tis all that I can say

It is my vision in the night,

My dreaming in the day.

~Thomas Hood

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.  ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.  ~Christopher Paul Rubero

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.  ~Latin Proverb

Tell me how many beads there are

In a silver chain

Of evening rain,

Unravelled from the tumbling main,

And threading the eye of a yellow star: -

So many times do I love again.

~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.  ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  ~Plato

True love stories never have endings.  ~Richard Bach

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.  ~Margaret Atwood

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.  ~Zelda Fitzgerald

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.  ~Kay Knudsen

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,

After the day's great sun.

~Charles Hanson Towne

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.  ~Author Unknown

Sometimes we make love with our eyes.  Sometimes we make love with our hands.  Sometimes we make love with our bodies.  Always we make love with our hearts.  ~Author Unknown

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.  ~Margaret Atwood

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.  ~Author Unknown

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.  ~Author Unknown

Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law.  ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

Candle light, moon light, star light,

The brightest glow is from love light.

~Grey Livingston

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.  ~Frank A. Clark

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.  ~Rose Franken

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.  ~Swedish Proverb

'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.

~Pixie Foudre

How did it happen that their lips came together?  How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill?  A kiss, and all was said.  ~Victor Hugo

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.  ~John Bulwer

Love is not singular except in syllable.  ~Marvin Taylor

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.  ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow  (Thanks, Katherine!)

Love me and the world is mine.  ~David Reed

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.  ~Robert Frost

Love is the poetry of the senses.  ~Honoré de Balzac

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.  ~Samuel Lover

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked.  ~Erich Segal

Love is what you've been through with somebody.  ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960

Love is being stupid together.  ~Paul Valery

For twas not into my ear you whispered

But into my heart

Twas not my lips you kissed

But my soul

~Judy Garland

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.  ~William Shakespeare

My heart to you is given:

Oh, do give yours to me;

We'll lock them up together,

And throw away the key.

~Frederick Saunders

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.  ~Pablo Picasso

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.  ~Pearl Bailey

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.  ~Stephen King

From:

Valentine

Heart

Love

Valentine's Day Links

 

  Unit and Newsletter

 

  Resources, Books, Poems, Great Links

 

 Valentine's

 

  Party Ideas

 

 Valentine's Day Theme Unit

 

  Valentine's Themes

 

  Resources All Subjects

 

  Resources Activities

 

  Resources Unit

 

  Great Resources

 

 Heart Bingo Cards

 

 Heart Boxes Pattern

 

 Tri-Bead Heart

 

 Hard Candy Heart Wreath

 

 Valentine Theme Unit

 

 February Units

 

  Resources Unit

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- Melted crayon shaving heart. Children can shave red, pink and white crayons onto a piece

of wax paper. Place another piece onto. Teacher irons to melt crayons, then cuts into a

heart shape.

- Secret Hearts. Cut out hearts out of white paper. Write messages or draw pics with white crayon. Children exchange, then watercolor over message.

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- Make a large Letter “V” out of Velcro. Let children touch and explore.

- Make a mailbox. Bend a piece of paper ¾’s. Tape onto a base. Make a ‘door’

- Valentine-theme bingo:

- Valentine dominos:

- Obtain paint sample swatches in shades of red and pink. Put in collage area.

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- Make a heart rhyming word activity, putting pictures of rhyming

words on heart cut outs (for children to match up, based on sound

- Make a display board with things the children learned this week

- Purchase the red, pink and white M&M’s. Sort, pattern, count.

- Match candy conversation hearts

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Non-Hardening No Cook

Friendship Dough

2 cups self-rising flour

1 T. Alum (optional)

2 T. Salt

2 T. cooking oil

1 cup + 2 T. boiling water

Mix and knead. (Due to

boiling water, cannot be made

with the children present)

* Add red food coloring

Easy Playdough

2 cups flour

1 cup salt

red coloring

water

Mix flour, salt, and red coloring

with enough water to make

desired consistency.

Add valentine cookie cutters.

Video:

Little Lulu Show’s Valentine’s Day

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

Because I Love You So Much Scholastic

Love You Forever Robert Munsch

Valentine Mice Bethany Roberts

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For Even More Great Ideas:



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Talk with the children about how poetry doesn’t always rhyme, and sometimes is just a combination of words to express thoughts, feelings and impressions.

Children can appreciate the flow and rhythm of hearing a poem like this, without fully understanding all of it

It is a positive pre-reading and literacy experience for children to be exposed to all types and forms of the verbal and written word.

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Note: Younger children do not typically understand puns or jokes.

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Music on CD/tape:

“If Apples Were Pears” by Jim Valley and Friends, Imagine That (Rainbow Planet Records)

“Love Is…” by Hap Palmer, Holidays and Special Times (Hap-Pal Music, Inc.)

“Valentine Song” by Hap Palmer, Holiday Songs & Rhymes (Educational Activities, Inc.)

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Have children trace an outline of their hand on paper, then cut out. Bend the two center fingers down, creating the sign language symbol for

“I Love You”

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To every little friend of mine,

I’ll send a pretty Valentine!

I’ll need an envelope for this,

I’ll sign my name and seal with a kiss!

Orange, purple, green, or blue?

What color shall I make for you?

Yellow or pink? White or red?

Or maybe a lacy one instead!

5 Happy Valentines

5 Happy Valentines, from the grocery store

I gave one to my mom, then there were 4.

4 Happy Valentines, pretty ones to see

I gave one to my brother, then there were 3.

3 Happy Valentines – yellow, red and blue.

I gave one to my sister, now there are 2.

2 Happy Valentines, we’ll sure have fun!

I gave one to my dad, now there is one!

One Happy Valentine, the story is almost done!

I give one to you – now there are none!!

(Start with 5 fingers up, bend down one finger at a time)

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Pretty red hearts

Two-by-two.

Holding hands

Saying “I love you”

Scented flowers

From garden vines,

A day for love – St Valentines!

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I’m glad it’s Valentines Day today!

It’s a special day, you know.

It gives me an extra chance

To say, “I love you so!”

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I like my friends,

So when we play

I try to share

And be nice all day!

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When you look in your mailbox,

What do you think you may see?

It may be a Valentine –

And it might be from me!!

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Counting Valentines

Valentines, valentines, how many do I see?

Valentines, valentines, count them with me.

I have red ones, orange ones, yellow ones, too.

I have green ones, purple ones, and some that are blue.

Valentines, valentines, how many do I see?

Count them with me! 1-2-3-4-5.....

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Three Valentines

(Tune: "Mary Had a Little Lamb")

Three valentines I have for you,

Have for you, have for you,

Three valentines I have for you,

Pink and red and blue.

I’ll put them in the mail for you,

Mail for you, mail for you,

I’ll put them in the mail for you,

Pink and red and blue.

To each and every friend of mine

I'll send a lovely valentine.

Mom, Dad, Sis, and Brother, too.

Will receive a heart that says,

"I love you!"

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Valentines, valentines

Red, white and blue

I'll make a nice one

And send it to you!

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Valentine's I've Made for You

Valentine's I've made for you,

Some with hearts and flowers, too.

All of them bring love from me,

Each one's special, you will see.

If you promise to be mine,

I'll give you my valentines!

~ Maureen Gutyan

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Valentine Verses

Now St. Valentine is here.

We greet his birthday with a cheer.

For happiness from friend to friend

Flies with the Valentines we send.

Today as Valentines go out

To people near and far,

This one I'm sending right to you

To say how nice you are.

Different Friends Song

(Tune:  Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Love, love, love your friends,

Different as they seem.

Playing, laughing, joking, helping,

True friends are like a dream!

Be My Valentine

Tune: Mary Had A Little Lamb

You're a special friend of mine

Friend of mine, friend of mine 

You're a special friend of mine

Be my valentine!

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Friend of Mine

(Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)

Will you be a friend of mine,

a friend of mine, a friend of mine?

Will you be a friend of mine

and (insert an action) around with me?

_______ is a friend of mine,

friend of mine, friend of mine,

_______ is a friend of mine,

and (insert same action) around with me.

Group/circle activity

Friends

I have two friends, (hold up 2 fingers on left hand)

And they have me; (hold up 1 finger on right hand)

Two friends and me, (bend each from left to right)

That's one, two, three (hold up while saying 1,2 3)

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Friends

I have two friends,

(hold up 2 fingers on left hand)

And they have me;

(hold up 1 finger on right hand)

Two friends and me,

(bend each from left to right)

That's one, two, three

(hold up while saying 1,2 3)

FEBRUARY

28 days

and no more!

Except one year in four!

Leap Year!

Counting Valentines

Andy has 6 red valentines (place on board)

He gave 3 away to his friends (take 3 away)

How many does he have left? (wait for answer)

Andy sent 1 to his grandma (remove 1)

How many does he have left? (wait)

Andy gave 1 valentine to me (remove 1)

Now how many does he have left? (wait)

Andy's teacher gave him a valentine (add 1)

How many does he have now? (wait)

The next day, Andy went to school

He found 4 valentines on his desk (add 4)

Count Andy's valentines to see how many he has now!

(all count)

Yes, Andy has 6 valentines, he had a happy valentines

day!

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“Heart”

I put my hands together,

This is how I start

I curve my fingers right around,

And I can make a heart

Big Red Hearts

(Tune: Frere Jacques)

Big red hearts, big red hearts,

Made with lace, made with lace.

Sent with love and kisses,

Sent with love and kisses

To our friends, to our friends.

A Valentine Song For You

(If you're happy and you know it)

Oh, this Valentine song is for you

I don't need crayons, scissors or some glue

Yes, this little song I'll sing,

Hugs and kisses it will bring.

Oh, this valentine song is for you

Please Be Mine

(Tune: Pop Goes the Weasel)

Here's a special card for you,

Will you please be mine?

It's filled with hugs and lots of love,

Be my valentine!

Today is Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine's Day

We love you and want to say,

"Happy Valentine's Day!"

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I Love You (Tune: Mary had a Little Lamb)

Suzy, Suzy, I love you,

I love you, yes I do.

Suzy, Suzy, I love you,

Yes I do.

(Substitute names of your children)

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Letter Carrier

Letter carriers haul a very full pack

Of letters and packages upon their back.

Step, step, Now ring, ring, ring!

Oh what surprises they will bring.

Do you Drive a Mail Truck?

Tune: "Do your Ears Hang Low?"

Do you drive a mail truck,

Walk in snow and rain and muck,

To deliver mail over hill and dale?

Post Office

Step inside!

Stamps for sale!

Packages, postcards,

Letters to mail!

Come to us

For your money's worth.

Deliveries made

All over the Earth!

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The Mail Carrier's Song

Tune: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"

Write, write, write your cards,

And lots of letters, too.

I will bring them to your friends,

And they will write back soon.

Make a mailbox/letter matching game!

Heart Facts!(

The average person’s heart will beat over 2 ½ BILLION times over their lifetime!!

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Books on the Heart (factual):

The Heart – The Kids Question and Answer Book

The Heart by Semour Simon

Hear Your Heart

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Quotes can be used for bulletin boards, newsletters, Valentine’s… or just inspiration!

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Note:

Laminate and use for your Word Wall; &/Or let children practice tracing with dry erase markers in the writing center.

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