Valentine Idioms and 💘 Sweet & Engaging Valentine’s Day Activities for Your Classroom! 💕

 Hey, teacher friends!

❤️ Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and I’ve got the perfect print-and-go resources to bring the love (and learning!) into your classroom!

Whether you're looking for word work, math activities, or engaging language lessons, my Valentine’s Day-themed resources will keep your students excited and engaged! 🎉

🌟 Check out my Valentine’s collection here: 👉 Fun To Teach Valentine's Day Resources

Valentine's Day Sentence Starter - Writing Prompts - Kinder & 1st - FREE - ESL

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Valentine’s Day Writing Activity - Letter Writing for K-2 - Sentence Starters

$3.00

$4.00

Valentine’s Day Math Flipbook - Counting & Number Recognition Activities 0-19

$3.00

$4.00

Valentine Verbs Word Wall and Word Wall Activities

$3.00

$4.00

👉 Fun To Teach Valentine's Day Resources

💌 Valentine’s Day Idioms – Love is in the Air! 💌

Want to add a little extra fun to your lessons? Try these Valentine’s-themed idioms with your students! They’ll love learning these figurative language gems.

❤️ Head over heels – Completely in love! (“She’s head over heels for that new book series!”)

💖 Wear your heart on your sleeve – Show emotions openly! (“He always wears his heart on his sleeve when he talks about his favorite pet.”)

💘 Shot through the heart – Deeply affected by love (or sometimes disappointment)! (“Her surprise party left her feeling shot through the heart—with happiness!”)

🌹 The apple of my eye – Someone very special! (“My little brother is the apple of my eye.”)

💞 Love at first sight – Instantly liking someone or something! (“It was love at first sight when I saw that new classroom décor set!”)

✨ How can you use these? 🔹 Have students illustrate their favorite idiom! 🎨 🔹 Challenge them to use an idiom in a silly Valentine’s Day story! ✍️ 🔹 Create a class idiom match-up game for review fun! 🎭

💗 Don’t miss out on these engaging Valentine’s Day resources to make learning extra sweet! 🍭

Grab them today!

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Happy Teaching & Happy Valentine’s Day! 💕

-Lori @ Fun To Teach

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Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

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Valentine Fraction Riddles: Identifying and Reducing Fractions to Lowest Terms - $3.00

by Scipi
4th - 6th grades
Activities, PDF, Printables

Valentine Fractions is not a “drill and kill” fraction activity, but instead is a five-page resource that is a fun and engaging way for students to be involved and focused while identifying and reducing fractions to lowest terms. 

French Coeurs Subjonctifs Mobile Craft Project by Urbino12 | TPT - $3.99

by Urbino12
9th - 12th grades

Activities, Bulletin Board Ideas, Projects

Qu'avez vous dans le cœur? 

Students will be able to express what is in their hearts using the subjunctive tense. Their heart craftivity will be displayed in the classroom. Includes directions and three different colored templates for student use.  Great activity for Valentine's Day!!

Valentine's Day Multiplication Color by Number Color by Code | TPT - $3.50

by Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell

2nd - 5th grades

Centers, PDF, Printables, Worksheets

Practicing multiplication facts is so much fun with this set of 11 Valentine's Day Color by Number sheets! This resource will delight your students as they solve the multiplication facts and color the Valentine's Day pictures based on the code! There are 11 sheets covering a different fact set on each page from x2 to x12! Perfect for differentiation!

Valentine's Day Medium Ability Wordoku for Middle and High School - $2.75

by All-American Teacher Tools

6th - 12th grades

Activities, PDF

Looking for a Valentine's Day activity for your upper-level students? These medium-ability 9-square sudoku puzzles will fill your class period and maybe two periods with meaningful activities. Each of the 10 puzzles includes a "secret word" that is spelled across, down, and within each smaller square. After they finish the puzzle and find the secret word, the worksheet includes the instruction to create a sentence using the secret word about Valentine's Day. You could even go one step further and ask your students to create a story that either begins or ends with that sentence.

Correcting Malapropisms and Mixed Metaphors | Print | Google | Easel - $3.98

by Charlene Tess

9th - 12th grades

Activities, Printables

Malapropisms and Mixed Metaphors are errors that are frequently found in writing. Students will learn to identify and avoid these verbal blunders through engaging examples and interactive exercises.

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - January 29, 2025

       

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

Sentence Patterns Valentine's Day Grammar Worksheets | Print | Digital | Easel - $4.00

by Charlene Texx
9th - 12th grades
Handouts, Printables

By varying sentence patterns and starting sentences with phrases or clauses instead of subjects and verbs, students can improve their writing and create more engaging prose. These 20 Valentine's Day-themed sentences follow a basic structure, beginning with the subject and verb.  Challenge your students to rewrite these sentences while preserving their original meaning, encouraging sentence variety. Along the way, they’ll also be reminded of familiar themes and symbols associated with Valentine's Day.

Roll and Calculate Math Game - Adding & Subtracting Positive & Negative Integers - $3.99

by Scipi
6th - 8th grades
Activities, Games

Roll and Calculate is a hands-on Algebra math game designed to practice the addition and subtraction of positive and negative numbers. Two players take turns rolling two dice numbered 1-6 and then add or subtract the numbers based on the placement on the game board.  

Contraction Puzzles and Assessments for Winter - $4.50

by Mickey's Place

K - 3rd grades

Activities, Assessment, Centers

The purpose of the Contraction Puzzles with a winter theme, is to give students a way to practice this skill using manipulatives. The students can use the easiest puzzles first, the ones with a winter shape, to help them gain confidence in their skill. The second set of cards can be differentiated by contraction family. It will help them with learning the connection between the two words that make up the contraction with the actual contraction word.

Making Inferences: Thinking About Thinking - $2.49

by Reading Spotlight

3rd - 5th grades

Graphic Organizers, Worksheets

Mindfulness for reading comprehension! Thinking About Thinking aids students in discerning “the big picture” for factual and inferential understanding. Students conceptualize by placing words and phrases into columns labeled: Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? Effective and easy to use, this set makes a strong addition to a metacognition repertoire. Perfect for homework, seat work, early finishers, extra credit and learning centers.

Learn Sight Words with Read & Write Winter Emergent Readers - $1.00

by Primarily Learning

K - 1st grades

Activities, Centers, Homeschool Curricula

These Winter emergent readers are thoughtfully aligned with the principles of the Science of Reading! With three engaging formats and two sets of graphics... (one for the weather with snow and one for no snow) ... kids can use the simple text to write, read, and retell their story as reading comprehension skills develop.

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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