💕 love, the heart & Valentine's Day 💕

Dear Green Room Families,

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz

This week, our theme was love, the heart and Valentine’s Day. We learned that Valentine’s Day is an annual holiday held on February 14th, dedicated to expressing love, affection and friendship through cards, flowers, and treats. Valentine’s Day has evolved into a global, secular celebration of romantic, platonic, and familial love. 

On Monday, Teacher Karla read two cute, fun stories: The Great Valentine’s Day Surprise by Suzy-Jane Tanner, in which everyone gets a Valentine’s Day card and they have to guess who sent it, and Dinosaur Valentine by Liza Donnelly, about Rex and his trusty dog, Bones, who receive an invitation to a party they will never forget. It's a Valentine's Day party … given by dinosaurs.

The class made beautiful, bright heart-shaped sun catchers to decorate the windows and make our classroom festive. The children also made beautiful Valentine’s Day Love Bug cards for their parents with Teacher Karla. They had their silhouette portraits taken for memorable Valentine’s Day keepsakes.

After reading Nancy Carlson’s Henry and the Valentine Surprise, the class worked on prepping their Valentine's Day bags and placemats. We read Palabras Con Corazon/ Words with Heart by Kate Jane Neal about the power of our words and how we can make someone’s heart rejoice with happiness and laughter. We thought of our own words to put on little hearts, using glue and glitter. We will put these words with hearts up in our classroom!

In Music class, we sang and danced with Teacher Brian. The class started with the very fun “Name Song”, before learning “The Green Grass Grows All Around.” Teacher Brian gave the children different colored scarves that represented the different countries in the Olympics and played John Williams’ iconic Olympic theme song. The children then practiced learning their Spring Sing song, before singing the “Goodbye Song.”

On Fun Friday, we had our Friday 15. We also celebrated Valentine’s Day, wearing our bright reds, whites and pinks and having a festive card exchange and party. We had all sorts of delicious snacks and treats and lots of love! It was an inspiring week filled with fun, hearts, kind words, curiosity, compassion, hugs and love.

We wish everyone a wonderful love filled Valentine's Day weekend.

With Love & Chocolate,
Nancy & Karla 💕