I thought I’d take a moment to collect and share all the Valentine’s Day Learning Activities for Kids that we have to make it easier for you to find them!
Yes, I know that we’ve just barely flipped the calendar year. But Valentine’s Day will be here before you and I realize it.
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Valentine’s Day Learning Activities for Kids
The learning activities are organized by age-level, starting with activities for younger children, to hopefully make it easier for you to find what you need.
Be sure to click on the links and there you’ll find the activities and/or free printables.
Love Bug Pack
–Love Bug Preschool Fun Pack – Great for older toddlers and younger preschoolers!
–Valentine Pre-K/K Pack – This pack is FULL of hands-on activities for young readers. It also includes a Valentine book list for younger kids.
–Valentine Cut it Out! Pack – With FOUR levels of cutting fun, it makes differentiation super EASY!
–Valentine Alphabet Game – Practice those tricky letters with this simple alphabet game! A blank heart template also included so you can use the hearts any way you’d like.
–Valentine Poetry Pack – A fun poem {written by me} with extension activities. Pre-K may enjoy, but designed mainly for K-2nd grades.
–Conversation Heart Writing – Teaching dialogue is so much fun with this comic book-like activity that gets kids using conversation hearts in creative ways! My kids BEG for this one each year the moment they see the candy in the store.
–Kid-Made Poetry Valentines – Making Valentines can be fun with these finish the poetry valentines. Free printable included.
–Letter Templates for Valentine’s Day – 5 different templates with two orientations. Print front & back to make foldable Valentine letters.
–Cut & Paste Digraph Sorting Pages – This also includes the same sorts WITHOUT the hearts at the top, which can be used ANY time of the year. Sorts come in color and blackline.
–Valentine Word Bump! Spelling Game – works with ANY spelling list!
–Valentine Math Facts Game – With TONS of ways to play, it’s perfect for independent work, centers, during math time, or at-home fun!
–The Two Sounds of Final Y Sort – practice reading words that end in Y and come to understand what “rule” governs the sound of final y.
–Heart Homophones – a matching and writing activity to work on those tricky homophones.
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Enjoy!
~Becky
If you haven’t already, please include the Redwall series by Brian Jacques in your list of excellent books for advanced readers.
That series kept my son, in 4th grade when he started, reading and re-reading through 6th grade, and his reading comprehension soared to a high school senior level in 6th grade as a result. My son is not what I call a ‘natural reader’. He would stop reading and scan the room every 15 minutes or so, which always startled me since I get and stay immersed for many hours while reading. My son instead was a soccer-playing-musician type, but the Redwall series kept him reading at a critical point in his life, and he owes his 650 Verbal score on the SAT solidly to that series of books.
My daughter, who read everything as a child, all the kids’ books out there, said the Redwall series was the best group of books she ever read.
Thanks for spreading the word. We have just GOT to get American kids reading again! Funny books like the Redwall series (yes, they have a message, etc etc, but let’s face it, if it ain’t funny, it won’t get read) are the way to attract kids to recreational reading.