My Favorite Valentine's Day Ideas for Students (Fun Activities)

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WOW, teaching in February is one of the best months to teach. Students and teachers are a bit refreshed from the break. You can also eat lots of chocolate candy. With these Valentine’s Day activities for kids, your students will be sure to have a great time! In this post, I will share with you some fun Valentine’s Day ideas for students.

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Valentine’s Day Ideas for Students: Anchor Charts

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The first set of worksheets in this Valentine’s Day activities for kids pack is some fun premade anchor chart templates. The anchor chart templates included are:

What is Valentine’s Day?
Parts of an Envelope
Parts of a letter
Life cycle of a rose
Books About Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day KWL

I love using these templates to help me trace out a chart beforehand. For starters, this helps me save time and reminds me what to talk about during our whole group conversation. The best part about these templates is that they come in black and white and can be used as mini-posters or note-taking pages for your kids.

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The History of Valentine’s Day

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Take me back to second grade! Picture learning about history, reading, writing, and math by focusing on a fun topic like Valentine’s Day. I would forget that I am learning. Especially if you can add in a Valentine’s Day party!

During this unit, students learn about the history of Valentine’s Day by studying the life of St, Valentine.

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Students also learn about vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, and math. There are a ton of fun worksheets students can choose from to learn about Valentine’s Day in this Valentine’s Day activity. Some worksheets included are non-fiction readers, a reading compression page, a mini picture book, facts cards, and more!

Valentine’s Day Ideas for Students: Vocabulary

Vocabulary worksheets make a great morning work activity. For example, it helps get students ready for the day. Working with new words to write sentences helps ELL students prepare for the day.

In this Valentine’s Day activity, students will learn about the words; Valentine’s Day, St. Valentine, Valentine, admirer, rose, dove, celebrate, and holiday.

Valentine’s Day Word Work

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Also included in my Valentine’s Day theme notebook units are word work practice sheets. I used my curriculum pacing guide to help me pick which spelling pattern to focus on in each notebook.

This activity pack focuses on vowel digraph words (spelled with oo patterns).

Valentine’s Day Parts of Speech

Learning about parts of speech is hard. But students might find it fun if you throw in some fun holiday-themed worksheets.

In this pack, your students will work on activities that focus on nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions.

Grammar/Parts of speech worksheet included:

ABC Order
Parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, and pronouns
Synonyms and antonyms
Conjunctions

Valentine’s Day Reading Activities

Also included in this worksheet pack are fun reading and writing activities.

The best part, these activities for kids can accompany any book!

The activities focus on the main idea, characters, problem and solution, and theme. In addition to the worksheets are fun choice boards where students can pick a book then complete an activity of their choice.

Valentine’s Day Writing Activities

Need to teach How-to writing, or expository and imaginative writing styles? This unit included fun prompts for different writing styles that a typical second grader needs to know.

There are lots of different writing prompts included. They provide fun opportunities for students to practice different writing styles while learning about Valentine’s Day and celebrating Valentine’s in your class.

Valentine’s Day Math Activities

Along with learning about the history of Valentine’s Day and ELA activities, this Valentine’s theme worksheet pack includes math! Activities focus on 2-digit addition and subtraction and reading graphs.

There are fun math games and color the code worksheets for additional Valentine’s Day ideas for students. The best part is that the games and worksheets are print and go. The only extra materials needed are pencils, crayons, and dice.