Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! We had a lovely time in first grade celebrating this holiday. Many of our afternoon activities focused around this special day. In Gym class, we had a hearty good time exercising. We played a game called "Catch My Heart." Each student would throw a bean bag to another student and say "Catch My Heart                     ." We also played a version of Simon Says. Finally, we participated in a relay race. Each student picked a heart with a type of movement on it. These movements included run. hop, skip, and walk. Then, working in teams, the students had to do these movements during our race. The students loved this relay race. 

We returned to the classroom where we did a Math activity using the candy conversation hearts. Everyone received a cup of hearts and then had to graph them. We then answered questions about our graphs. We found out that yellow was the  most popular color distributed in the class. 

Finally, our day ended with some games. We worked with a partner to draw love bugs, wrote a note about why we love someone, and worked in teams to put Valentine puzzles together. All in all I say we had a great Valentine's Day in first grade. 


And now for some pictures . . . . .               

This picture is from a project we did after reading The Biggest Valentine Ever. We used hearts to make a mouse. 

These love bug bags were used to carry home all of our Valentine treats. Aren't they adorable?