This Valentine's Day Graphing Worksheet has 1st Grade students solve four subtraction facts, fill in a bar for each answer, and read the graph they built. Answer key included, so checking takes seconds.
This dear valentine activity has K-2nd grade students pick heart word cards for family and school helpers and spell each word on a Valentine card. Answer key included.
This Valentine's Day Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 1st grade readers a short holiday passage and five multiple-choice questions about Valentine's Day. Answer key included for quick, no-prep comprehension practice.
This candy hearts skip counting activity has 1st to 3rd grade students put heart number cards in order by 2s, 5s and 10s, then practice on a worksheet. Answer key included for easy checking.
This Valentine's Day short and long vowels worksheet helps 1st graders listen for short and long vowel sounds in fun holiday words. Includes an answer key for quick, no-prep phonics practice.
This sweetheart sentences activity lets 1st to 3rd grade children sort Valentine heart cards into statements, questions, exclamations and commands while building strong grammar skills. Answer key included.
These valentine's day flash cards give preschool to 2nd grade children 18 fold-over picture and word cards for holiday vocabulary and word walls. Answer key included.
Use this Valentine's Day roses and bells paper with 1st grade writers: wide lines and a fun-day prompt make February writing practice cheerful and easy.
This valentine's day doves and hearts paper invites 1st grade students to write about a friend they love on wide, roomy lines, building sentence skills with a cheerful holiday theme.
This valentine's day hearts and vines paper invites 1st grade students to write about a special gift on wide, roomy lines, building sentence skills with a cheerful holiday theme.
Using this Valentine's Day Mini Pack, students learn about Valentine's Day and many different skills with a Valentine's Day theme. This Mini Pack includes 10 fun Valentine's Day worksheets and two Valentine's Day activities.
This valentine's day hearts paper invites 1st grade students to write a short poem about someone they love on wide, roomy lines below a bright hearts garland.
This Valentine's Day Hearts Border Paper Worksheet gives 1st graders ten roomy handwriting lines and a friendly prompt for writing a valentine note, so February writing time starts with an idea instead of a blank page.
Celebrate friendship with this Valentine's Day greeting card for 1st grade: kids fold the card and finish sentence starters to write a kind, heartfelt note to a friend.
This valentine's day writing paper gives 1st grade students a festive page with wide lines and a prompt about someone they love, so young writers can practice sharing kind words.
This Writing a Valentines Day Letter Worksheet helps 1st graders write a friendly letter with a greeting, body, closing, and signature, turning a loving message into strong writing practice.
A Valentine's Day syllables worksheet for 1st Grade: count the beats in six illustrated Valentine words, then six more on your own. Answer key included, so students hear long words in chunks and read them with confidence.
This Valentine’s Day ABC Order Worksheet asks 1st graders to put eight holiday words in alphabetical order on numbered writing lines. An answer key is included, so checking the page takes seconds.
Use these Valentine's Day Clip Art images and graphics for Valentine's Day bulletin boards, Valentine's Day activities, and classroom decorations.
Hearts, kindness and candy-coated learning
Valentine's Day is a sweet chance to practice the skills first graders are already working on. Kids count candy hearts by 2s, 5s and 10s, sort them by color and make a graph. They write friendly notes with a greeting, a kind sentence and a closing, and read short holiday passages. And the best lesson of the day: kindness. Saying one nice thing about each classmate is a reading, writing and heart lesson all at once. The click moment is when kids beam reading a card a friend wrote.
Holiday excitement is real energy. These moves point it straight at learning.
Give each child a small cup of candy hearts. They sort by color, tally, then color in a bar graph. Finish with questions: "Which color has the most? How many more pink than yellow?" Real objects make graphing click.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withValentine's Day Graphing WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Kick off the day with a Valentine's song and let kids do the motions. Music settles the excitement and gets everyone ready to learn together.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withValentine's Day SongSongsOpen it →Flash Valentine's words like heart, friend and card, and have kids read each one and use it in a kind sentence. The new words then show up in their valentine writing later in the day.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withValentine's Day Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Valentine's centers kids will remember all year.
ActivitiesLine up candy hearts in groups and count by 2s, 5s or 10s to find the total.
Open Candy Hearts Skip Counting Activity →
ActivitiesKids write a short letter to someone special with a greeting, a kind message and a closing.
Open Dear Valentine Activity →
ActivitiesBuild silly or sweet sentences from heart-shaped word cards and read them to a partner.
Open Sweetheart Sentences Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Valentine's Day Graphing Worksheet, Valentine's Day Song and Dear Valentine Activity.
Candy heart graphing, skip counting, writing friendly letters and reading holiday passages all fit first-grade skills. Pair each with a little kindness challenge to keep the heart of the day.
Choose activities that practice skills kids already need, like counting, graphing, reading and letter writing. Kids get the fun of the holiday and you keep your learning goals.
Teach three parts: a greeting ("Dear Mia,"), one kind sentence about the person, and a closing with their name. Sentence starters like "You are a good friend because..." help.
Have kids write a kind note for every classmate, or draw names so everyone gets one. A class kindness chart works well too.
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