All You Need is... Valentine's Day!

What a love filled week we had. From making a class book about what love means to each student, reading Valentine's books and even doing some Valentine's candy math we had a wonderful week celebrating the love in our classroom.

Love Is Class Book

This week we discussed what love actually was and the kids came up with some great ideas. Whether it was "taking care of someone else, or being kind to someone" the kids really thought long and hard about the things in their lives that they loved. We then wrote and drew pictures about what we loved to put together to make a love class book for students to read in our class library. Here are a few pages from the book: 

My family is love because they take care of me.

I love my teacher. I love the world. I love my pets. I love my friends.

I love food. I love recess. I love my pet.

Candy Math

Perhaps the most exciting part of our week was when I handed each student a box of candy hearts and had them graph their box based on color! Students graphed their own papers, which you will see examples of below, and then as a class we compared to see which color students got the most of! I was shocked there were about 6 kids who didn't have an entire color and others that had over half of their box be one color. It was a really fun way to compare data and see the differences within each box.

A student colors in her squares to match the number of hearts she had in her box.

We are full speed ahead to spring break. From our field trip to OMSI this week, Read Across America week the next and then our 100th day of school after that we are going to be jam packed with fun activities! I can't wait to document all the fun that your children, and I, are having :)

Smiles,

Miss Adams