Another holiday means more effort to keep kids focused on learning! Why not use this free printable language arts Valentine’s activity to disguise grammar review and poetry?! Click here for the PDF: Grammatical Poetry- Valentines Day
Here’s what the page looks like:
Click here for more grammatical poetry!
Looking for some fun Valentine crafts to do with your class? Check out these ideas:
Click here to see an awesome collection of Valentine animal crafts!
Give kids a bunch of pre-cut hearts and let them make something creative. (source)
Make a 3D heart wreath using strips of construction paper and ribbon (source).
I absolutely love this idea. I’ve done two other worksheets with this same idea (click here and click here to see them) and I’ve found it to be really successful. It’s super important to get kids familiar with the hundreds chart. Hopefully children will be so familiar with it that they can make their own hundreds chart on a piece of scratch paper during a test (since kids don’t get a printed hundreds chart on their standardized tests).Click here to see my third 10 more that/10 less than hundreds chart worksheet: hundreds chart- more than- less than OWL
These animal crafts were too adorable not to share. They would be way fun to make after studying animal environments, using them as a basis to teach adjectives or characteristics, etc.
Lion made with a paper plate and noodles! (source)
Chick and bunny printables. Great for spring and Easter! The website’s in Bulgarian, but if you click on the image, it takes you to the printable. Hooray for Google Translate! (source)
Cardboard tube octopus. Love it! (source)
As teachers, we encourage kids to become readers. I just recently learned that the first Saturday in February is National Take Your Child to the Library Day! Most public libraries do something to mark the occasion. Check with your local library for details. Take the opportunity to promote this in your classroom and community so we can improve literacy in our society!
Here’s my second worksheet to help kids see number relationships on a hundreds chart. My first worksheet seemed to go well so I thought I’d make another one. Here’s the free printable PDF: hundreds chart- more than- less than JUMP ROPE
I love these paper lanterns. When we lived in China, there were lots of lanterns all over the place during Chinese New Year. They’re a great craft to make with kids. Here’s my tutorial on how to make them out of construction paper. Click on each image to enlarge the image.
The following Chinese new year craft was submitted by a fellow teacher who just did this craft with her second graders:
Super easy and totally cute. Enjoy!
Click here to download the template: Chinese New Year- Spring Character Craft
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