Valentines Day: Friends and Fun!

Valentine's Day is an excellent reason to celebrate our friendships, as well as sneak in some curriculum, too! 


We all love Splat the Cat. He is such a goofball and it seems he is always into some kind of trouble! This week we read Love, Splat. 

After reading (and really enjoying) the book, we made text-to-self connections. In the book, Splat felt loved when (spoiler alert! eeek!) Kitty gave him a special Valentine. The boys and girls connected the story to a time in their lives when they felt loved. 

The next part of the "craftivity" was to make Splat! This was a super activity that took several steps, loads of patience, and lots of teamwork. This was a challenge!

All the hard work and patience paid off! 

"I felt loved when my cat cuddled me."

"I felt loved when my dad took me to the dog park."

Not only did Valentine's Day give us a chance to sneak in some writing, but it was also a chance to sharpen our Math skills, too! We played a BINGO game that gave us practice identifying and naming numbers to 100! Perfect fit with our curriculum!

Having TOO much fun playing Heart Bingo!

We were thrilled to spend time with our Grade 5 buddies making Love Monster mailbags! Aren't they creative?

Then we delivered our Valentine cards to each other! 

Organized chaos ... or maybe just chaos?

We finished off the day enjoying the friendships we have made in our class by playing Valentine's Minute To Win It! Mrs. Beliveau loves competition and fun, so the students had several crazy challenges to complete in a minute!

The first challenge was Heart Stack. How many candy conversation hearts can you stack in a minute?

The next challenge? Lava Heart! Using only two hearts to stand on, can you make it across the room? Don't fall in the lava!

The final challenge was Broken Hearts. Students passed a tissue paper heart using clothespins! Careful, don't tear it!

Our Valentine's Day was filled with learning and friendship and fun! Happy Valentine's Day!

Love Monster Mailbags are from The Teacher Wife. Splat the Cat activities are from Cara Carroll's mini-unit Love, Splat. Our Valentine's Minute To Win It was inspired by Mrs. Schmelzer's First Grade.