After the winter break, Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to celebrate friendship, love, sharing, and kindness. These five educational Alloprof activities and resources will help you and your students celebrate this heartwarming holiday.
Mastering idiomatic expressions is an essential aspect of developing language skills, understanding conversation, and building vocabulary. The French language happens to contain many expressions that include the word cœur (heart). What better time to learn all about them than on Valentine’s Day? You can help your students learn some of these expressions by heart by playing the Alloprof game Le chemin du cœur.
Love has always been one of the great themes of literature. To celebrate Valentine’s Day through reading, you can start by decorating your classroom bookshelf! Create hearts from the middle pages of a few hardcover books by gently tucking the edges into the centre (type “heart+page+books” into a search engine to see examples). Use paper clips as needed to hold the pages in place. Before February 14, ask your students to bring in a book about love or friendship to share with the rest of the class. You can also use this reading list for inspiration.
Kind words are a precious gift at any time of the year, but they are particularly special on Valentine’s Day. Ask each of your students to make a kindness garland filled with loving messages for someone they care about. You can use the garlands to decorate your classroom or invite your students to give theirs to the person who inspired it. Encourage the kids to help each other!
Word bingo is one of the best ways to learn through play. With this themed bingo game, your students will have a blast while reviewing a bit of Valentine’s Day vocabulary! Simply download and print the cards and hand them out to your class along with some bingo tokens.
Exchanging cards bearing words of affection is a Valentine’s Day tradition. This final activity involves teaming up with your students’ parents to help them send their child a loving message. Sometime before Valentine’s Day, send them this tool (via email or through their kids’ agendas, whichever is your usual method of communication), which contains nine phrases coded in a secret alphabet. On Valentine’s Day, provide your class with the alphabet key so that they can decode the messages their parents chose. The students can then write their own messages for their parents or other loved ones to decode!
Writing : The Alloprof Teacher's team