Feb. 8th: Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day is a fun holiday that can be celebrated while teaching across the curriculum. Here are some different lessons and activities that can be used.

Health:
-Dissect a heart and learn about how the heart works
-Learn how to take pulse and blood pressure
-Toss Kisses in a bucket (Kinesthetic)
-Jump Rope for Heart
-Make a heart out of gym equipment and have students run through pretending to be blodd cells

                                                      Geography:

-Pin the ___________on the map
Example: Pin the cupid on Valentine, NE

Reading and Writing:
-Read a Sweetheart for Valentine and write all of the characters on hearts and pass out to students. Whenever that student hears their character mentioned they must stand and then sit back down. (Gets students moving and having to pay attention)

                                         -Use conversation hearts to make sentences
                                         -Learn about Mythology

Science:
-Using pipettes, see how many drops of vinegar it takes to erase the message on a conversation heart. Why does this happen?
-Floating M experiment (described it on a previous blog)

Art:
-Make paper flowers
-Decorate valentine cards holders