• Welcome
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • Learning Apps
  • Alphabet
  • Learn to Read
  • Phonics
  • Spelling
  • Struggling Readers
  • Comprehension
  • Writing with Kids
  • Free Printables

This Reading Mama

H is for Heart: FREE Printables Included

By thisreadingmama Leave a Comment

I thought I’d go ahead and post the Valentine’s Day activities we did this week featuring H is for Heart, seeing that today is Valentine’s and all.

If you are looking for the next part of my Nonfiction series, I’ll post it tomorrow. 🙂

H Work

I introduced H’s sound with my H sound tub: it contains a hexagon, hair (cut off from a $1 store doll), a horn, horse, hippo, & a hat.

H tracing: he did very well with the capital H this week!

H Do-a-dotting with Valentine colors

FREEBIE Capital/Lower Case Do-a-dot Painting: He used red paint to dot the upper case H’s and pink to dot the lower case h’s

Heart Work

FREEBIE Colored Heart Sticker Sorting– we used foam stickers from the $1 store

FREEBIE Heart Poke Page-all of my kids are goo-goo over Erica’s letter poke pages (you can view her H one with this link), so I thought I’d make a heart-shaped one.  NJoy is using a toothpick to poke holes through the page around the perimeter of the heart-great for fine motor!

Heart Count 1-20

Prewriting– tracing the lines

Candy Heart Count: he used number stamps since he can’t write his numbers, yet.

Sweethearts Roll and Cover: I remembered (in the middle of our unit) that I had bought these heart dice last year after Valentine’s.  The kids all LOVED them, especially throwing them at each other!

Roll a Heart: great for reinforcing the dot patterns on a die!

MBug “helped” me match candy hearts by color; plus she got to eat a few!

ALuv needed some heart attention too, so I printed off a graph and recording sheet from here.  I really like her recording sheet…this was his first time using tally marks and he did rather well.  I printed this off her website last year.

ABC Review

Get the snail to the mailbox to deliver her Valentine’s-ABC order

He got this Melissa & Doug See and Spell for Christmas and LOVES it.  I only pull out three word “cards” at a time because there are words on the front and back of each.  He matches the letters and “reads” the words.

Heart Craft- A lesson in symmetry: each painted on half on the heart and then we “smooshed” the two sides together to reveal a symmetrically painted heart.

MBug’s first time painting!!

After almost every paint stroke, NJoy would ask me to fold his so he could see how the paint transferred.  It was like magic to him!

Here’s what all three kids’ looked like when done:

At the end of our study, we posted H is for Heart on NJoy’s Word Wall.

If you haven’t already joined me by subscribing by RSS Feed, Facebook, Twitter, or email, I would appreciate it if you’d take the time to do so.  Thanks and God bless!

~Becky

 

asheville north carolina
google apps for education
athleta coupon code
make a graph
eagle ford shale

Want MORE Free Teaching Resources?

Join thousands of other subscribers to get hands-on activities and printables delivered right to your inbox!

Filed Under: Alphabet Activities, Phonics and Word Study

« "This Shaped Heart" Emergent Reader: FREE Printable
Nonfiction Text Features: Part 2 »

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

JOIN MY NEWSLETTER

and get free printables!

Sign me up!


Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

Let’s Get Connected!

  • Email
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

  • Home
  • Start Here
  • Subscribe
  • Shop
  • Checkout
  • Privacy
  • Affiliates

Copyright © 2023 · Designed by Visibilia Media