Valentine's FREEBIES!

I Love My Friends 

Booklet 

This little booklet, which looks NOTHING like the first one we used 20 years ago, is one of my favorite things about Valentine's Day.  I know some people love having the kids make cute boxes to hold their valentines cards, but really, WHAT are they going to do with it in 3 months? CHUNK IT! However, if they have a cute little collection inside of a book, which includes their child's precious handwriting from first grade, it will really take on a new meaning. It will be a treasured keepsake. I still have my son's and he is now 21 years old!  On Valentine's Day morning, the children distribute their cards to each other into lunch bags that I hand out and we all decorate the day before.  This year we will use the head from our LOVE MONSTER BOOK EXTENSION, and add accordion arms and legs to turn our bag into a monster.  So, it was only fitting that we use a book cover with a monster on the front.  Students take their valentines out one at a time, read them, glue them in the book, then write about it.  Why the bag?  Well, we DO need a place to hold our valentines until we read them, plus, after reading them, if they have candy attached, it goes in the bag until you give them permission to start eating.  The bag with leftovers goes home and gets chunked later.  We celebrate this holiday every hour, on the hour, to incorporated telling time.  Beginning at 9:00 we stop, and eat one thing from our bag, then back to scheduled activities. This helps prevent stomach aches from eating too much sugar at one time.  At 10:00, we eat one more.  I set an alarm that plays the Beetles song All You Need Is Love, which I'm thinking is giving them a little history too. Ha! Get the FREEBIE below, then decide which cover you want to be on the front, copy, staple, and you are good to go.  Also, some teachers have pairs of students share tape and put a strip across the top of each valentine to be able to see both sides.  That's up to you. 

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Valentine's Day Bingo 
with Conversation Hearts 
FREEBIE

This is one of the games we keep out in a center for the month of February.  Calling cards included, just add conversation hearts to cover words that are called out,  or  you can buy the eraser kind from Oriental Trading that look like conversation hearts and use them year after year. Everybody loves BINGO!!!  This is fun to do during your party as well. 

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