Valentine's Day Homeschool Theme Learning

When I posted last week about including Theme Learning in our weekly homeschool lessons I got a great response from so many of you wanting to see/hear more!  This week's theme for our homeschooling was all about Love and Valentine's Day!  Here are a few things that we did!

 

 1.  Reading/Phonics:

 

We have SO many books in our home that are about either Valentine's Day specifically or about love, so this week was a great opportunity to bring them all together for some learning fun!  I am loving having our 5 year old being able to read basic stories now and he is so proud to be able to lead story time with a few selections!  A few of our Valentine's Favorites include:  Saint Valentine, and The Story of Valentine's Day.  Our favorites about love are How Do I Love You?, That's How Much God Loves You, and I Love You So...

 

2.  Calendar / Countdown Fun:

We love all of the resources over at Catholic Icing and one of the fun ones is the Valentine's Day Countdown!  This is such a great activity to add to our Calendar Time to talk about how many days there are in a week and how count the days from the start of February to Valentine's Day!  Plus, each day we had the opportunity to learn a fun Bible Verse about love!   

3.  Art/ Crafts:

This week we made Valentine's!  They had so much fun being able to color, cut, and use glitter and glue!  I learned that a 20 month old and glitter do NOT mix well! Let's just say that I had a lovely mess to clean up and went back to just letting him use chalk and crayons!  We all still had a great time and talked about the story of St Valentine.

 
4.  Preschool Valentine's Fun:

I spoke earlier about how I organized theme packs so they are easy to pull back out in future years, and a Valentine's Day pack was one of them!  I laminate the pages that I can re-use from year to year and love that we can use dry erase markers on them!  Our 3 1/2 year old loved the Valentine's Day Preschool Pack from Homeschool Creations!  His favorites included sorting sizes of Cupid Angels, tracing and the matching game!

5.  Music:

I love music and love finding connections and learning experiences with songs so I was so excited to find this little song!  It was a great way to talk about the different ways that we can love people and easy enough for our little kids to pick up and understand!  We love the CHC book Building Good Character: God Made Me Part of a Family, and this was a great way of talking about great character qualities to show love!

If you want to show your love (to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It")

If you want to show your love, share a smile.

If you want to show your love, share a smile.

If you want to show your love, if you want to show your love

If you want to show your love, share a smile.

 

If you want to show your love, lend a hand.

If you want to show your love, lend a hand.

If you want to show your love, if you want to show your love

If you want to show your love, lend a hand.

 

If you want to show your love, use kind words.

If you want to show your love, use kind words.

If you want to show your love, if you want to show your love,

If you want to show your love, use kind words.

6.  Cooking/Snacks:

Keeping it simple here!  They wanted to make heart toast with cinnamon sugar for Valentine's Day.  Our 5 and 3 year olds are learning to cut their food so they were THRILLED to be able to make the cuts to turn their square toast into a heart. I know, it's the little things!

 

 

7.  Saint Connection:

Learning about Saint Valentine was so much fun!  Two of our favorite books talk about Saint Valentine both Saint Valentine, and The Story of Valentine's Day.  We were able to read these books, talk about the love that St Valentine showed to others, and also do some fun learning activities about Saint Valentine from Real Life at Home! 

I hope that you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day with the ones that you love!  We are so blessed with the love in our family and thank God every day!  If you are looking for something fun for your spouse for Valentine's Day make sure to check out my review for the great book Spousal Prayer! 

Our little loves