Valentine's Day

Dramatic Play

Post Office! What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day, than sending mail! They were the cutest little mail carriers. They loved working at the cash register the most, and stamping all the mail. We took turns being customers to buy paper, valentines, envelopes, post cards, stamps and boxes. They also had a great time delivering them with their hats and bags to the mailboxes around the room. Like I said, they were so cute.






Blocks

I had out a play castle my son has been begging to have out for a few weeks. They liked it so much, they were sad to clean it up, so I kept it out another day.

Art

We played with chocolate scented play dough, and heart candy boxes. It was a big sacrifice over the weekend for my kids to have to help me eat all the chocolates :)
The kids really enjoyed it, and were making valentine presents for each other and they got delivered to their friends through the post office.

The second day, we played with the play dough again for the first while before we got out ingredients to make oatmeal pancakes. They really love cooking, and all took a turn to add and mix ingredients. They then ran off to play some more while I cooked them.

Small Manipulatives


Valentine number sequencing puzzle on the magnet board














Valentine dot cards with flat marbles. This was the first time we'd done this, and they were excited to play with these marbles. They made patterns and counted as they played too.

Writing

Valentine stamps

Outside
We stayed inside out of the mud one day, and danced with ribbons and played with the parachute. The next day, we enjoyed the sunshine and got out and played after snack! It is so nice not having to get all the kids in full snow gear again! We've got spring fever!

Large Group
We learned the song, Skidamarink.
We read a valentines book, then handed out valentines to each other

The second day, we played with Sweetheart candies. First, they glued hearts onto the letters of their names to spell them. Then, they each got a box of their own candies and we sorted them, graphed them, and made patterns with them. They were amazing at the sorting and graphing, and were all able to do it on their own. With the patterns, they did great at extending mine, and a few could make them on their own. They're doing great!