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1-2-3 Come Make Valentines With Me!

chemistry activities, valentines, valentine activities, We've got chemistry, heart activities, valentine crafts, valentine cards, word work for February, February bulletin board ideas, bulletin boards for February, While looking for classroom charts today, I stumbled across the periodic chart.  Boy did that bring back memories. 

I LOVED chemistry lab, and could easily have become a mad scientist.

I'm always looking for ways for students to spell words, like using Scrabble tiles etc.

Since the periodic table is filled with letters and letter combinations, I frogged around half the morning dreaming up valentines.

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You can use my templates or challenge students to think up their own.

I've included a periodic chart that you can shoot up on an overhead, so students can use it as a reference tool.

I hope they have a much fun as I did. 

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Click on the link to view/download the We've Got Chemistry Valentines.

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chemistry activities, valentines, valentine activities, We've got chemistry, heart activities, valentine crafts, valentine cards, word work for February, February bulletin board ideas, bulletin boards for February, Do you have a valentine you'd like to share? I'd enjoy hearing from you: diane@teachwithme.com or leave a comment here.

"Education is not received. It is achieved." -Unknown

Fluttering By With A Valentine "Hi!"

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They are quick, easy and fun to make and look lovely stuck to a window, so that the sun can shine through, or fluttering across a bulletin board for February.

Here's how to make them:

Run off the body part of the butterfly on a variety of colors of construction paper.

Rough cut them and stack them into color piles so that students can choose their favorite.

While students are working on a tabletop lesson, call them individually to the table.

Students choose a color or colors of crayons that they want to shave.

Students hold the sharpener over a sheet of wax paper big enough to be able to trace 3 hearts on.

You need it larger so that when the shavings melt, they do not run outside of the wax paper.

Make sure the wax paper is on a mini ironing board or a folded towel.

When the child has enough shavings sprinkled around the paper, lay a second piece of wax paper on top.

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Let cool a few seconds and have the child step to the side to trace the heart template onto the wax paper.

Once done, she takes her paper back to her seat and cuts out the hearts and glues them to the back of her butterfly’s thorax.

When they are done, they can bring their butterfly up to you, so that you can give them glue dots for their wiggle eyes and rhinestones that they have picked out.

These look fabulous on a window. Simply put a small piece of folded tape on the thorax and stick.

As a writing extension, children can make another paper heart and write, “Flying by with a Valentine hi.” Or “My heart flutters for you.” 

Click on the link to view/download the Wax Paper Butterfly Valentine.

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"Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space. " -Abraham Lincoln

More Paper Love -continued from the article above.

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When school supplies are on super sale during August, I buy packs of pencils for about a dollar.

I save them to decorate and pass out to my students during special times of the year.

You can make a class set of hearts and attach one to the end of a pencil, with a thick glue dot, in about 20 minutes.

Print a copy of the little card that I’ve designed to go with them.  Cut 2 slits and insert the pencil and you’re set!

What a nice Valentine surprise left on their desk.

Valentine Gifts: A Bouquet of Love

Easy valentines, valentine ideas, valentine lessons, valentine actitivities, valentine crafts, valentine gifts, heart activities, valentine hearts, paper chains, heart paper chain, ideas for valentine centers, ideas for valentines day, ideas for valentine parties, February 14th activities, valentine gifts, heart gifts, heart activiities, heart lessons, As I was fooling around making the hearts, it occurred to me that they would be cute flowers if I stuck them to the top of a green Popsicle stick.

I LOVE how more ideas pop into my head as I’m “playing.”

Students can make 1, 2, or even 3 flowers for their Dixie cup vase. I folded a green strip in half and then in half again and cut the smaller strips, to make leaves.

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I looked for Dixie cups that were a solid color, or had a nice pattern that would look like a vase.

Tip the cup upside down; using a knife, make as many slits as you need and then insert the assembled heart flowers.

Adjust the height ‘til you have an appealing arrangement. I’ve also made a little card students can include with their bouquet. Click on the link to view/download the Heart Activities.

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“Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

1-2-3 Come Do Some Candy Heart Activities With Me

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I’m so excited! Last year I found the Acme Heart Maker site where you could type in 4-letter words on candy hearts.  CVC word candy hearts,candy heart activities, candy heart ideas, candy heart lessons, candy heart math, candy heart centers, candy heart certificate, candy heart graphs, candy heart patterns, candy heart pattern mat, candy heart estimation, candy heart booklet, candy heart cards, candy heart Dolch Words, candy heart game, candy heart recipe, candy heart bingo, I went crazy making some cute CVC words for you, but was a bit bummed because the letters only print in all caps.  However, they do look just like real candy hearts, which are also printed in all caps. 

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 How perfect to make a surprise heart note for all of your students, or allow them keyboard practice, and let them make their own heart or message, in an independent computer-center activity. I even made one for my husband, and taped it to his bathroom mirror.  He chuckled this morning.  candy heart ideas, candy heart activities, candy heart centers, 100 day activities, candy heart games, meassurement activities with candy hearts, graphing candy hearts, 100 day cards,  heart math, candy heart graphs, candy heart pattern mat, candy heart booklet, candy heart cards, candy heart valentines, candy heart certificate,

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The Dollar sells them 4 in a pack.  There's also smaller candy heart cards.  Use them for Memory Match or "I Have; Who Has?" color games.  Click on the link to view/download the 100 Day With Candy Hearts packet.

Of course my brain was working over time trying to think of the zillion ways I could use this. I got out my Dolch word list and made a complete set of Conversational Hearts from all of the lists Pre-Primer through 3rd grade.

You can do several things with these.  Simply use them as anchor charts, or print them off and laminate them. Make Memory Match games, put them up on your word wall for February, have students put them in alphabetical order, or have students choose several and make sentences with them.

Play a whole-group game and put the laminated hearts in a box, have students take one out identify the word(s). If they cannot they are out of the game.   Another way to play this is “Kaboom!” Pass around the candy heart cards.  Go around the circle.

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graphing candy heartsThere are 2 graphing extensions: 1 for graphing your students' favorite flavor of candy heart, the other for graphing their favorite color candy heart.

I’ve included some fun new skill sheets for you in More Fun With Candy Hearts click on the link to view/print this 33-page mini conversation heart unit.  Last year’s booklet was Fun With Candy Hearts.

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Want some more fun things to do with candy hearts?

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Allcrafts.net has a tutorial of how to make your own candy hearts.  Click on the link to check that out.

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