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Students will follow a Valentine’s journey through the mail.

Vocabulary: envelope, mail carrier, sorted

SEL Focus: Valentine's Day

CCSS (and states that have similar standards): RI.1.1 key details; RF.1.3 irregularly spelled words, RI.1.3 problem and solution; RI.1.5 text features; RI.1.10 read and discuss first-grade texts; W.1.3 recount sequenced events

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• A sweet story celebrating friendship all year long and demonstrating love with nontraditional gifts.

• After reading, revisit the article and fi nd the punctuation marks, circling each question mark and exclamation mark with two different colored markers.

• As a class, hunt in the text for the high-frequency words. Make a tally chart and put down a tally each time you find a word!

Skill: fine-motor skills, writing

Materials: My Valentine skill sheets, shoe box or other container, glue, construction paper, and other art materials: markers, stickers, etc.

• Students show off their craftiness and ability to think of kind messages with this Valentine’s Day activity.
• Introduce a shoe box or other container as the class “mailbox.” If you wish, students can take turns adding decorations and stickers to the box.
• Cut out the Dear Valentine message templates. Pass them out along with construction paper and other art supplies (markers, stickers, etc.).
• Encourage students to think of a kind message to share in their valentine and decorate.
• Students can choose to make more than one and put their completed valentine in the class mailbox.
• Have students take turns coming up to the mailbox and picking out a random kind message! They can read the sweet messages aloud.