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Transform your standard classroom activities this Valentine’s Day by engaging your students in exciting explorations of candy heart erosion, creative writing prompts, and enjoyable Valentine-themed exercises that ignite a passion for learning. These activities can be easily tailored to suit learners of all levels and can turn your usual teaching routine into an unforgettable experience.
Engage with ELA Valentine’s Day Activities
Valentine’s Day provides a wonderful platform to infuse creativity and compassion into your English Language Arts (ELA) and reading lessons. Dive into a variety of Valentine’s Day activities such as quirky writing prompts, word searches, and sentence pattern challenges that align with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for writing.
Adapt the difficulty level by offering sentence frames and word banks for younger learners, while encouraging older students to elaborate on their ideas, refine their voice and structure, and support their compositions with evidence. These activities can serve as lively warm-ups, small group projects, or independent tasks, turning learning into a festive celebration.
- Spread the Love: Compose kind sentences that express positive sentiments about classmates.
- Talk from the Heart: Students respond to friendship-themed prompts and share their thoughts with peers.
- Write a Thank You Valentine: Craft brief notes of gratitude for school staff members.
- Take a Sweet Stand: Engage in lighthearted debates focusing on Valentine-themed topics.
- Build Love Emoji Stories: Use Valentine emojis to brainstorm and create a short story.
- Speak from the Heart: Perform or share heart-themed poems during a poetry slam.
- Build a LOVE Poem: Write an acrostic poem using the words VALENTINE or LOVE.
Valentine’s Day: Roses Are Red Close-Read and Poetry Writing
By Lalula Lifetime Learning
Grades: 2nd-4th
This packet offers a comprehensive unit centered around poetry and Valentine’s Day, starting with close reading activities and comprehension questions, followed by opportunities for students to create their own “Roses are red…” poems.
Valentine’s Day Analogies PowerPoint and Self-Checking Easel Activities
By HappyEdugator
Grades: 3rd-6th
Standards: CCSS RI.8.4, L.4.4, L.5.4
This resource includes a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with 46 pages and 20 interactive Easel activity pages aimed at enhancing critical thinking and logical reasoning, suitable for whole-class instruction or center activities.
Roll a Story – Valentine’s Day Creative Writing Activity – Digital + Print
By Language Arts Lessons by Lauren
Grades: 6th-12th
Standards: CCSS CCRA.W.3, W.6, W.10
This resource is available in both digital and print formats, featuring colorable storyboards, story slide packets, colorable templates, and editable instructions, allowing students to use dice to generate story frameworks.
VALENTINE WRITING PROMPTS: 26 Activity Sheets, 52 Writing Prompts – Digital
By Literary Sherri
Grades: 7th-9th
Standards: CCSS W.7.2, 7.3, 7.4
This resource includes 26 worksheets with 52 writing prompts touching on Valentine traditions and trivia, along with editable tasks and grading rubrics for assessment.
Valentine’s Day Reading Activity for Middle and High School
By Yaddy’s Room
Grades: 7th-10th
Standards: CCSS RL.8.4, 9-10.1, 9-10.4
This seven-page resource includes an answer key and engaging activities that delve into the origins of Valentine’s Day while analyzing literary elements through an Edgar Allan Poe piece.
Sentence Patterns Grammar Worksheets for Valentine’s Day
By Charlene Tess
Grades: 9th-12th
Standards: CCSS CCRA.L.1, L.2, L.3
This resource includes 20 Valentine-themed sentences that follow various structures, helping students identify patterns, phrases, and clauses, with options for both printing and digital assignments via Google Classroom.
Practice Spanish Writing with Valentine’s Day Prompts
Encourage students to express their feelings in español with Valentine’s Day prompts that inspire simple sentences, familiar vocabulary, and creative expression, suitable for learners of all ages.
These activities can also be leveled by providing sentence frames or word banks for younger learners, while older students can be prompted to enhance their responses with descriptive language or compose short paragraphs that articulate their thoughts.
- Assemble a Love Collage in Spanish: Create a Valentine’s collage enhanced with descriptive captions.
- Fill the Heart: Collaboratively fill a bulletin board heart with short Spanish sentences about love.
- Match the Message: Pair Valentine images with corresponding Spanish phrases.
- Rearrange the Spanish Poem: Mix the lines of a Spanish love poem and challenge students to reorder them correctly.
Valentine’s Day in Spanish Writing Activities 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade
By Pasito a pasito
Grades: 1st-3rd
This package enhances cultural learning by providing access to 11 writing activities, which include creative writing prompts, friendship notes, and Venn diagrams for comparison.
Incorporate Valentine’s Day Fun with Math Activities
Bring math to life with Valentine’s Day-themed activities, from heart graphs to holiday sorting. Utilize Valentine printables, themed word problems, pattern puzzles, or logic challenges as engaging warm-ups or center work. Adjust the difficulty level to accommodate younger students by utilizing manipulatives or similar problems, while challenging older students with multi-step problem-solving tasks and real-world applications.
- Crack Cupid’s Codes: Have students decipher Valentine-themed coding and pattern challenges to unveil a festive heart picture.
- Solve Love-Themed Logic Puzzles: Engage students in reasoning and deduction to complete logic activities focused on love.
- Create Equation Heart Art: Transform math equations into heart-shaped designs and patterns.
- Decipher Secret Love Numbers: Solve number problems to uncover a Valentine’s Day message.
Fraction Task Cards | Valentine’s Day Theme | Grade 3
By The Playbook
Grades: 3rd
This comprehensive package includes 12 task cards, a recording sheet, and an answer sheet covering candy bar fractions, equivalent fractions, and comparisons, totaling 72 task cards for teachers to utilize.
Explore Chemistry with Valentine’s Day Activities
Incorporate hands-on science investigations this Valentine’s Day by using candy hearts, red liquids, and sweet treats. Students can experiment with candy heart erosion, explore dissolving rates, or investigate density with colorful liquids to reinforce essential scientific concepts. These activities can fit seamlessly into lab days or serve as quick demonstrations to connect festive fun with a curriculum aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
- Observe Candy Changes: Conduct experiments to observe melting rates of various Valentine’s Day candies and document the results.
- Mix Love Potions: Blend different essential oils to explore the scents they create, crafting the ultimate love fragrance.
- Measure Heartbeats: Monitor and analyze heart rates before and after activities to investigate the body’s response to excitement and movement.
- Layer Sweet Liquids: Create a stunning rainbow Valentine drink by layering liquids with different densities.
Valentine Candy Heart Erosion Lab | An Earth Science Experiment
By Kimberly Scott Science
Grades: 3rd-6th
Standards: NGSSMS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS2-1, 4-ESS2-1
This hands-on experiment includes teacher background information, activity pages with two variables, a reading passage, and an answer key, designed for completion within a 30-minute lab session.
Create Cross-Curricular Classroom Cupids with TPT
Infuse enthusiasm and creativity into your Valentine’s Day lessons with activities that captivate everyone, from shy kindergartners to your senior students. These themed exercises take learning beyond the ordinary, injecting a dose of excitement while keeping students curious and engaged. Discover additional Valentine’s Day resources to further enrich your lesson planning.
