The caterpillars and butterflies love to celebrate love. Valentine's Day is the perfect time to share poetry, cards & simple expressions of love.
From
my kitchen table to yours . . . tips for Valentine's week.
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Make it a healthy Valentine's Day -- focus on non-sweet treats! Make lots of paper decorations. Paper hearts and flowers are great treats for the eye and perfectly healthy! |
| Make paper hearts from recycled materials -- newspapers (especially Sunday cartoon pages), empty cereal boxes, wrapping paper you saved for a craft project... |
| Mail out the heart decorations that don't fit in your kitchen! Whenever they arrive, they will brighten a friend or relative's day. |
| Cut out lots of paper hearts. Make your own hall of fame or hall of love -- write the names of special people on each heart. If you have photographs, add them! |
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Poetry for everyone!
Teacher Tips
from Corinne Steigerwald
Valentine's Day is the perfect time to highlight poetry. Share simple poems and poems that are your favorites. Take time to explain what you love about each poem.
Nursery rhymes are a great beginning and help introduce the pleasures of rhyming and rhythm. (I've listed some below.) But, even young children can appreciate the lyrical language in classic poetry!
"My Valentine"
Robert Louis Stevenson
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of birdsong at morning and starshine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me,
Of green days in forest
And blue days at sea.
Here are first lines from five nursery rhymes to share.... Have fun with poetry -- make up your own second lines!
1. Baa, baa black sheep have you any wool....
2. The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts....
3. Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow...
4. Handy handy, Jack-a-dandy, loves plum cake and sugar candy. . .
5. Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight ...
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