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Valentine’s Day is a good day to make our classes just a little bit more special. We hope that you and your students will enjoy the activities we’ve shared today.

Valentine’s Day Songs, Poems & Fingerplays for Kids

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Valentine's Day Lesson Plans

14+ Activities & Resources for Celebrating Valentine’s Day

Valentine's Day Resources

The Missing Heart

You will need programmed paper hearts with a concept you are working with written on them. For example, if you are working on specific letters, print one letter on each heart. You could also print numbers, the children's names or just have different colour hearts.

Place the hearts on the floor making a large circle. Tell the children you are going to remove one and they have to guess which heart is missing.

Tell them to close their eyes and NO PEEPING! Remove one heart. Tell them to open their eyes and guess which is missing!

TIP: If it becomes very easy for them, remove 2 or more hearts and have them guess which 2 or 3 are missing!

Valentine’s Day Counting Hearts in the Dish

An old tried-but-true favourite! You will need lots and lots of paper valentines; dish or paper plate (cut into a heart!). Say:

Valentine, Valentine in the dish,

How many valentines do you wish?

Ask each child and have them count that number of valentine hearts into the dish.

Printable Valentine's Day stickers

Don’t forget to reward your students for their efforts. Printable Valentine's Day stickers with candy hearts, Cupids, fun faces, flowers, butterflies and lots of hearts will make the perfect decals for any February or Valentine project.

Heart-Stopping Fun

You can play a variation of “Hot Potato” with your students but using heart cut-outs. To prepare for the game, cut out paper hearts in different colours. Begin the game by randomly giving students hearts, then starting the music. Students must pass their heart to the person on their right until the music stops. Once the music stops, the teacher calls a colour. If a student has that colour, he or she must spell one of the words correctly. If they do not, then they are out. If they spell it correctly, they can continue to play. You can also use math facts, vocabulary words, or whatever other concept students need to review.

Cupid Says

Instead of well-known “Simon Says” with kids, you can play a game called “Cupid Says”. Include some Valentine's Day ideas such as “Give me a kiss” or “Give someone a hug”.

Suggestions: give a gift, smell a rose, write a love letter, give a friend a hug, blow a kiss, throw Cupid’s arrow, make a heart in the air, eat some chocolate.

TEENS / ADULTS

Speed-dating

This activity is great for getting students to use the language in short conversations. They get a ton of practice and feel more comfortable in pairs than speaking in front of big groups.

Introduce the idea of speed dating, a video might be good here. Elicit feedback on what they think takes place and if it is a good way to meet people. Elicit what kind of questions they would need to ask people to find out information/compatibility in a short period of time (3 minutes).

Present and focus on form here. Then give learners some practice by asking them to create their own questions. As a final production task, have learners do a class speed dating role-play. Alternatively, you can reframe the task as finding a new friend.

You can read the whole procedure here.

Scatter Sheet

Put the heading of Valentine’s day at the top of the board and elicit from the learners any words they can think of associated with Valentine’s Day. Write these randomly on the board. The result might look something like this.

Taken from https://eslgames.com/

When you have a nice collection of words, go around the class asking each student to describe one of the words on the board without saying the actual word. The other learners can call out the answer if they think they know what the word is. As each word is correctly defined, cross out or circle each item of vocabulary until all the words have been removed.

All about Love

This is a great activity by Sharon Maloney for extended speaking practice. Ask your students to make some discussion questions on love, e.g. Have they ever written a love letter? What was the most romantic thing to happen to you? Would you be willing to move to another country for someone else?

Put the questions on cards or on a blank board game template. Have learners play by turning cards over and asking questions to their group, or rolling a dice and moving along the discussion squares. If they land on a question, they nominate someone in their team to answer it.

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15 Fun and Easy Ideas for Classroom Halloween Parties!

by Sharon Rowley

Halloween classroom parties are an absolute highlight of the school year for kids, no matter if they are in preschool or elementary school. But if you are in charge of planning the event and pulling together the food, crafts, and activities, it can seem like a daunting task!

So here are 15 fun and easy ideas courtesy of some very creative bloggers to help you plan a fantastic Halloween classroom party!

#1 Little Vampire Donuts

Brandy from Gluesticks came up with this super simple idea that is sure to be a huge hit in the classroom: store-bought donuts with vampire fangs!

#2 Pin the Boo on the Ghost

The adorable variation on pin the tail on the donkey, Pin the Boo on the Ghost, makes for a great party game for preschoolers and kindergarten classes. Courtesy of Carolyn from The Pleasantest Thing.

#3 Sparkly Cat Masks

This sparkly cat mask is made from construction paper, card stock, ribbon, and glitter. Grab the full instructions over at The Chirping Moms.

#4 Banana Ghosts and Clementine Pumpkins

This clever idea from Stephanie at Spaceships and Laser Beams is super simple to create, and it's healthy, too! The kids will love their banana ghosts and clementine pumpkins!

#5 Halloween Concentration Game

This Halloween concentration game is a free printable that can be download over at Saltwater Kids!

#6 Q-Tip Skeletons

I love this easy idea from The Chirping Moms that my own kids have done at school parties over the years — a Q-Tip Skeleton on black paper!

#7 Candy Corn Marshmallow People

#8 Halloween Bingo

I love these free printable Halloween Bingo cards from Amber over at Crazy Little Projects! And what a great idea to use candy corn as the bingo game markers!

#9 Paper Pumpkin Craft

Jodi from Meaningful Mama has the full tutorial on how to create these sweet paper pumpkins. It's a project that is perfect for preschoolers and younger elementary school-aged kids!

#10 Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars

Amber from Dessert Now Dinner Later shares the recipe for these awesome Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars. They look impressive, but they are simply layered cookie dough colors. You can do this!

#11 Mystery Boxes!

Now what Halloween party would be complete without mystery boxes? There's nothing like watching a kid stick his hand into a box of cold spaghetti and asking him to tell you what it is that he's feeling! Christina from Christina's Adventures gives you all the details on how to create the boxes and exactly what to put inside of them!

#12 Paper Plate Witch

I love this adorable paper plate witch from Michelle over at Crafty Morning! Check out her post for the full list of materials and step-by-step instructions!

#13 Halloween Chex Mix

This Halloween Chex Mix is super simple to make up in a big batch and then package into smaller bags for the kids to eat at the party or to take home as a treat bag! This post on Momof6 includes a free printable bag tag!

#14 Mummy Wrap Party Game

Kids absolutely love this easy mummy wrap party game where kids take turns wrapping each other in a roll of toilet paper without breaking the paper! You can find this and several other ideas for party games over at A Little Bit of Everything!

#15 Craft Stick Spiderwebs

I love these craft stick spiderwebs! You can see the full tutorial by Adrienne over at Crafts Unleashed!

WHY IS NATURE IMPORTANT FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT?

We all want our children to be happy, healthy, and physically fit. As busy as we are, it’s important to find time to help children develop good habits that contribute to a lifelong focus on wellness. We may hope that feeding them nutritious foods or enrolling them in gymnastics or karate classes will be enough to accomplish these goals.

Though these activities can certainly have a positive impact on health and fitness, the reality is that one of the best gifts we can give our children is to introduce them to the great outdoors, laying the groundwork for a life-long connection to the natural world.

By being outside and surrounded by nature, children experience an ever-changing and free-flowing environment that stimulates all the senses. Outdoor play fosters children's intellectual, emotional, social and physical development.