Valentine’s Day Activities for the Elementary Classroom
It’s Valentine’s Day, and your students have just entered the classroom with their hands full of pink and red goodies to pass out to their friends. Almost immediately, you hear, “When are we passing out our Valentines?”
Keep your love bugs engaged and having fun until it’s time to pass out their Valentine cards by incorporating these low-prep Valentine’s Day activity stations. In this post, you’ll learn:
how to manage Valentine’s Day activity stations with Google Slides
Valentine’s Day activities for students
Managing Valentine’s Day Stations
The best way to manage your Valentine’s Day activities is to incorporate stations. You can use slides to help guide students through each rotation smoothly.
Use a fun countdown timer to keep students focused on completing each task in a timely manner. Using these easy to use tools, students will be able to work through their stations more independently.
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Valentine’s Day Activities for Students
Whenever I incorporate rotations into my lesson plans, I like to make sure that I’m including a variety of activities. If there is an activity that is academic heavy, then I will put a craft or another high interest activity after.
Valentine’s Day Reading Comprehension
Students can practice their independent reading strategies with Valentine’s Day reading comprehension passages.
Each love themed passage will help students practice their reading fluency. There are differentiated passages for each learner in your class.
Make answering comprehension questions even more fun by giving students Mr. Sketch smelly markers to find text evidence.
Valentine’s Day Robot Craft
Your little love bugs will love practicing their fine-motor skills by creating a Valentine robot craft. Your students will also write about someone that they love to bits and pieces.
This easy to assemble craft is perfect for your February bulletin board.
The Night Before Valentine’s Day
Read the book The Night Before Valentine’s Day by Natasha Wing. After reading, students can work with their group to retell the events in the story and complete the sequencing activity.
After students have retold the story, they can walk around the classroom to complete a survey. Students will ask their classmates how they felt the night before Valentine’s Day. Students will complete the graph and answer the data analysis questions that follow.
Valentine’s Day Math Activities
Incorporate math standards into your holiday fun with these Valentine’s Day math activities. Students will build a box of chocolate math facts with a Valentine math craft. Students will cut out chocolates and decide if the math facts make 5 or 10.
Keep the love of math flowing with skip counting and place value practice worksheets. Save some of the unused Valentine’s Day activities for early finisher work throughout the rest of the month.
Pass Out Valentine Cards
To keep the Valentine’s Day chaos to a minimum, you can include passing out Valentine cards as a station activity.
With fewer students roaming around, you can help make sure Valentine cards get delivered to the right place.
Wrap-Up
Use Valentine’s Day rotations to keep the learning fun going all day.
Use a timer on your slides to keep students on track for each activity.
Calm the Valentine card craziness by incorporating it into your stations.
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