Read.Explore.Learn.-Valentine's Day

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

The little girl named Cornelia Augusta in The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond is amazing. She takes to the time collect hearts that rain down one day and she uses them to create wonderful valentines for each for her friends.

I love how Cornelia Augusta takes the time to send cards to the people she care about not only the year hearts rained down but, every year after that.

The children in Anne Rockwell's Valentine's Day create wonderful valentine's to a classmate that has moved faraway. Each child decorates their card with a memory they have that is tied to the student.

What a wonderful way to share memories with a friend and let them know they are important.

I loved getting see what each child picked and how they decorate their card to represent their memory.


What did we do?


Card Making

I cut out six pink and  two green hearts out of tag board. JDaniel was able to push the pink heats  up the lollipop stick to create a petal effect. 

We added the green hearts as leaves with a Valentine message of the largest leaf.

This lollipop man is so easy to make. You just cut four small slits in the an old playing card for the red pipecleaner through. A simple heart is the head and a lollipop is placed in one of the hands.

Here are some of the cards we decorated. I colored in the robot and JDaniel put stickers around the heart on these cards.

Hearts 4 Kids

Our local radio station His Radio is sponsoring a program called Hearts 4 Kids. We sent our cards that didn't have candy to that project. The project is open until Feb. 6th at midnight. Click here for more details.

Surprise a Neighbor

We took the cards with candy to the older lady that lives next door.

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