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Valentine’s Day Hearts

Valentine’s Day provides an excellent opportunity to introduce the concept of idiomatic language to intermediate English language learners (ELLs) in Grades 3-12.

Valentine’s Day: Love Letters

Students study a love letter from John Keats and write their own. What purpose does letter writing fulfill?

Heart Men/Women

Cut out large heart, this is the body. Add the medium one for the head. Use two small hearts for each arm and three for each leg.

Making Flowers That Smell From Paper

Children can learn the parts of a flower (stem, leaves, stamen, etc.).They can realize that different flowers have different smells. They can talk about the colors of the flowers they made.

Candy Heart Sentences

Students will create sentence given one or two words (on a candy heart).