Valentine's day is quickly approaching and there is still time for more books and activities! This week we are reading: Love Waves by Rosemary Wells and Plant a Kiss by Amy Rosenthal
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Literacy Activity:
Create a love book. Take the pictures of your friends and family and paste them into a little book. Write down names under the pictures. Your toddler can read and re-read this love book filled with all the people who care for him or her.Create a Valentine Alphabet
Make a list of all of the letters and let your child find something that love for each letter. This could be a scavenger hunt activity around your home or neighborhood, or you could do this magazines. Kids love to cut and glue things and they could paste all of there pictures on their letter list.
Additional Activity:
Make a Tissue Paper Heart
- Draw a large heart shape on the paper.
- Allow your child to use a glue stick to apply glue inside the heart shape (help them if they are too young to do it themselves).
- Rip the tissue paper into different sizes and let you toddler stick them all over the heart.
- This Activity will help build fine motor skills and promote creativity.
NOTES:
I would also like to add that Valentine's Day is another opportunity to emphasize showing kindness to others. This is a time when we can teach our little ones about random acts of kindness, by doing something small for someone else. I think it is crucial that we teach children to be compassionate and empathetic to one another, we must teach them to be friends and to include others when they may feel left out. As parents and educators we must take advantage of teachable moments where ever we get them. Let us remind our kids how they feel when some one does something nice for them or how they feel when someone makes them sad. Ask them how we can impact other's sadness?
And let us too be reminded that little eyes are always upon us, mimicking our every move. We must be the person that we want our children to become.
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