I Love You to Pieces Valentine Card

Haven’t gotten all your Valentine cards done yet?  Need something quick? I threw together this quick printable (inspired by this pinned image) you can use.  Just glue pieces of construction paper inside the heart.  If you have even less time, then have your child decorate the picture. Once it is completed cut it into large puzzle pieces and deliver in an envelope to the recipient. 

There are 2 options available-

full sheet

and half sheet to fold.

Happy Valentine’s Day!


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Valentine Theme Day Plans

100th Day was a huge success!

There were some things that weren’t that great…like when I wasted several, and I mean a lot of paper trying to print this "I Can Count to 100" book front to back.  After the 100th time of tweaking I finally got it the way I wanted.  So much for trying to save paper.

Also, our public library had slim pickings on the 100th Day book choices.  I wish Amazon offered a public library option on all of its book.  I’d pay for a membership to that! 

Besides, those set backs I did discover that my son’s favorite thing so far this year was…Disney’s Frozen theme day! 

Since my son loves theme days so much, I hope to include at least 2 a month.  My son is already talking about Valentine’s Day activities. 

Here is a look at what we will be doing Friday. (Click the image below to download it.  Links are clickable.)

Do you have anything fun planned for this week?

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Sweethearts K Extension Pack

Valentine’s Day is next week, which means another fun filled themed day for my son. 

Sweethearts K Extension Pack

We will also be including All About Learning’s FREE “Rhyming with Candy Hearts” activity.


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Looking for even more ideas?

• Preschool and Tot Packs
• Devotional and Memory Verse Helps
• Center Ideas
• Count and Color Books
• Even More Valentine’s Ideas
• Tots Around Town- Valentine Scavenger Hunt
• Book Recommendations

Are you doing anything special for Valentine’s Day?  Tell us in the comments.


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Valentine Freebies & Deals

Deals

One of our favorite bible curriculums, Grapevine Studies is having their biggest sale of the year. Right now, through February 7, 2014, all student books & student eBooks are 50% off!  This is the perfect time to stock up for next year!

Freebies

All About Learning has FREE Valentine’s Cards that your kiddos can print and pass out to all their friends. And don’t forget about their FREE sweetheart activity.



Everyone who enters What’s in the Bible Valentine’s Prize pack will receive a FREE Valentine’s card printable.  These are no ordinary Valentine’s. Each card includes a link to a free episode!

Friends and Heroes is celebrating Valentine’s day by offering some FREE Valentine’s Resources.  They have a word search, flash cards and a music video.

Looking for more Valentine ideas?

• Valentine Preschool and Tot Pack
• Valentine Devotional and Memory Verse Helps
  
• Center Ideas
  
• Even More Valentine’s Ideas
  
• Tots Around Town- Valentine Scavenger Hunt
  
• Book Recommendations

Which freebie are you most excited about?

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FREE Rhyming Sweethearts Activity

All About Reading has a great NEW FREEBIE just in time for Valentine’s Day.  You won’t want to miss it!   It offers 3 different levels! Perfect for teachers and homeschooling families with kiddos on different reading levels!

Just click the image below to grab the “Rhyming with Candy Hearts” activity.

Your kiddos are going to love it!

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Valentine {Expanded}

Better late than never I always say!  Our new and expanded “Valentine” unit is finally up!!  We’ve added a few new printables and used Sweethearts candy hearts as our main theme.

All our printables are in one easy download. Just click the image above to download a single zip file of all the printables. (Can’t unzip it. Try Hamster Free Zip Archiver approved by Amber’s husband. Remember to download carefully.)

You will need to be able to view pop-ups to download the unit, as it will appear in a pop up window from our site! Last year’s printables are also included in this download.   

Here are some of the printables that MAY BE included in this unit: 

Necco Sweetheart Observations

Patterns (ABAB and AABB)

Necco Sweethearts Graph

Letter Sort

Writing Maze

How Many Sweethearts (You’ll need our counting cards.)

Beginning Writing/Cutting Practice

Size Sort

Number Order Puzzle (1-10 and 11-20)

Spelling Book and Page

Count & Clip 

Tot Pack

Looking for some ideas for a younger tot?  Check out our Sweethearts Tot Pack. (Tot Packs inspired by 1+1+1=1.) Here are the printables included in this pack:

• Sweethearts Match
• Sweetheart Shapes 
• Count the Sweethearts
• Heart Colors (mini book)
• Size Sequencing
• Sweetheart Picture Puzzle

 

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Looking for more ideas?

• Kindergarten Extension Pack
• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Center Ideas
• Count and Color Books
• Even More Valentine’s Ideas
• Tots Around Town- Valentine Scavenger Hunt
• Book Recommendations
• Last Year's Post

There are also more  ideas, units, printables and crafts available on this theme.  Check out our Pinterest Board for some of our favorites!

We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided. 

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Valentines Color and Counting Books

Here are two new color and count books for Valentines!  Enjoy!

A Sweetheart Color Book-To download, just click on the image!

Sweetheart Counting Book: Numbers 1-10-To download, just click on the image!

We hope they add to your learning fun this Valentines Day!

Valentine Centers

This week we are expanding our Valentine Theme printables. 

To get you started, I’ve found some fabulous ideas that can be use in independent centers, plus a free printable. 

Stamping

Work on letter recognition with our Stamping Strips.  To do this activity you will need uppercase or lowercase stamps and an ink pad.

Stamping Strips: Valentine's Day

Fine Motor

My Montessori Journey has wonderful valentine based activities that will help your child work on their fine motor and practical life skills.

Valentine Transfer Activities

Art

Make your very own homemade Valentines.  We created our paper with a unique “painting method” last year. All it took was a little vinegar, cardstock and various shades of pink and red tissue paper.

Homemade Valentines

Hope you have fun.

Tots in Action- Valentine’s Day

Here are some pictures of this unit in action! We hope they help you as you plan your week ahead!

Valentines Day

This unit has been updated. So, make sure and get the new printables here.

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Here is what we’ve been doing this week. Let us know what you think.  We hope by providing these materials to you free of charge, it will make your life easier!

 
Lesson Plan: The lesson plan includes all the lessons for the week, as well as optional ideas. Items following the lesson plan are just the printables or links to websites we used to teach these plans.  (Please note: On top of our lesson plan we are reading books daily that relate to our theme.)

Memory Verse: This memory card is for daily use during our calendar time.  You can learn more about calendar time at 1+1+1=1 or Homeschool Creations.  Our weekly devotional is an object lesson that will help your child apply the meaning of the verse to them.

Day 1 
Candy Letter Match- Have your child match the capital letter to the lowercase letter to reinforce letter recognition.

Cupid Clip Cards- This activity will work on your child’s beginning counting skills, and their number recognition.  The clothespin clipping also works on fine motor skills.   

Sweethearts Observations- Help reinforce senses, while making observations of sweethearts.

Day 2: 

Cupid Beginning Writing- For those tots that may struggle with following the lines, we have added a simpler writing activity.  The 2nd activity has no lines (just a gray path), so all your child has to do is connect the cupid to his arrows, any way they can.  You can use this document over and over again if you laminate it and then have you child write with dry erase markers. (Black dry erase wipes off easier than color ones.)

Valentine Candy Number Maze-This activity will help your child practice counting whole numbers 1-20 and 1-10 in order by 1s. (2 pages included in download.)

Day 3:

Valentine Spelling- This activity will help your child begin to recognize that when letters are combined they form words.

Roll and Cover Sweethearts-This activity will help your child begin to read and count whole numbers. You can use counting cards or a dice. (4Shared distorted the image, so please ignore.)

Sweethearts Graphing – This activity will introduce your child to data collection and interpretation. Once you’ve completed the graph, make sure to ask simple questions.  Such as, “Which color had the most (tallest bar)? Which color had the least (shortest)? How many (color) hearts did we have in our box?”  Make sure to show them how to use the graph, instead of just counting the hearts.

We hope you enjoy these lesson plans and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided.

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