The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

We had a great Valentine's Day week here in Pre-K. There were so many fun activities to support our learning objectives. i snapped a few pictures of my kiddos enjoying some love themed centers! We used our valentine 10 and 20 frames to count and color in a group and then used our Valentine's CVC cards to sticker spell. I loved using the dollar store plastic hearts to practice counting, putting ABC's in order,sorting and playing partner games. These are just a few of the activities we had fun doing this week. My kiddos particularly liked making their own Valentine's in free art with punches, decorative scissors, markers, colorful pens, stamps, card stock and embellishments. It was so great to see them use their creativity and imaginations to make such cute projects. So, what fun activities did you do for Valentine's Day?

This year for Valentines day my department has decided to have a teddy bear picnic and have a box outside our classrooms for notes from Parents, Teachers and other loved ones. I wanted to incorporate the Valentines theme into my lessons for the week and here are some of the ideas I have come up with: 1. Put words on hearts and hang around the room at eye level. Give children hearts stapled together for a read the room exercise and a cute take home book. (literacy) 2. Divide heart doillies in half, quarters, thirds, etc. and talk about part to the whole. Give each child one cut up and have them glue back together on a sheet of construction paper. (math) 3. Use heart die cuts to count, label with a number or number word: count forwards, backwords or skip count. Match the number to their words.(math) You can find these ready made in my TpT unit: Valentines Math and Literacy Unit 4. Give each child a blank sheet of paper and a set of markers. Direct the students to draw Valentines...