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 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.
A Valentine's Day Candy Heart Graph Worksheet where 2nd graders count tally marks, color a bar graph of four candy colors, and answer four questions about their data. Answer key included for fast, no-prep graphing practice.
This Valentine's Day anagram worksheet has 2nd graders unscramble six holiday words using a word box, with an answer key included, so spelling practice feels festive and fun.
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.
This Valentine's Day word scramble worksheet gives 2nd grade students six jumbled holiday words to rebuild on the lines, with a word box to guide them. An answer key is included for fast checking.
This Valentine's Day Skip Counting Worksheet has second graders finish five number patterns by 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s, plus two holiday story problems. An answer key is included, so practice is ready in minutes.
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 words worksheet has 2nd grade students unscramble six words made from the letters in Valentine's Day. A word box and an answer key are included.
The Valentine's Day Fact Families Worksheet gives 2nd grade students three number triangles with a missing number and four facts to finish, building addition and subtraction fluency together. Answer key included.
This Valentine's Day Adding Coins Worksheet has 2nd grade students add rows of mixed coins, combine two sets of coins, and solve a story problem. An answer key is included, so every total checks in seconds.
Use these Valentine's Day Clip Art images and graphics for Valentine's Day bulletin boards, Valentine's Day activities, and classroom decorations.
These Valentine's Day Desk Name Tags are a perfect way for your students to identify their desks and practice spelling their name with a Valentines' Day theme.
Using Valentine's Day Matching Game Activity, students match Valentine's Day pictures to build their holiday vocabulary.
Candy hearts, kind words, real skills
Valentine's Day on February 14 is all about showing kindness and friendship, and 2nd graders are just the right age to take that to heart. They learn the day is named after Saint Valentine and that people trade cards, hearts and kind notes. In class, we use it to write friendly letters with a greeting and a closing, read and spell holiday words, and do math with candy hearts. Counting a bag of hearts by fives, 5, 10, 15, 20, or graphing the colors turns a sweet treat into a real lesson. The best moment is watching a shy kid light up reading a kind note from a classmate.
Kindness first, skills right alongside. These are the moves we use every February.
Play the Valentine's Day song as kids walk in, then pause on a holiday word and have them spell it on a whiteboard. Singing gets the vocabulary into their heads, and they will hum it all day.
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 →Run a quick flash card round with the holiday words: friendship, valentine, cupid, sweetheart. Kids read each one, then use it in a sentence. A few minutes daily all week means they can spell them in their letters on the big day.
Why it works: pulling an answer out of memory makes it stick far better than rereading it, one of the strongest findings in learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withValentine's Day Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Pull a math page, a reading page and a word page from one Valentine mini pack and rotate them through centers. Mixing skills keeps 2nd graders sharp, and the theme keeps them begging for the next page.
Why it works: mixing different kinds of problems in one practice set helped students do far better on a later test (Rohrer and Taylor, 2007).
Try it withValentine's Day Mini PackWorkbooksOpen it →Sweet, simple and full of smiles.
ActivitiesSpill out a handful of candy hearts and skip count them by 2s, 5s or 10s. Then eat one for every correct count!
Open Candy Hearts Skip Counting Activity →
ActivitiesKids build complete sentences from heart-shaped word cards and read them to a friend.
Open Sweetheart Sentences Activity →
WorksheetsSort candy hearts by color, graph them, and decide which color won.
Open Valentine's Day Candy Heart Graph Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Valentine's Day Song, Dear Valentine Activity and Candy Hearts Skip Counting Activity.
Plenty! Friendly letter writing, holiday vocabulary, skip counting, graphing and kind words all fit the theme. It is a perfect day to practice real skills while building a caring classroom.
It is named after Saint Valentine, and over time it became a day to show love and friendship. Today people share cards, hearts and kind notes with friends and family.
Many teachers ask families to send a card for every child, or have the class make cards together at school. That way nobody is left out, and the focus stays on kindness.
Have kids sort them by color, count them, graph them and compare amounts. Older 2nd graders can skip count by 5s or write addition sentences from their piles.
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