Find Fun Activities For February!!

February will be here before we know it and what better way to prepare and stock up on your materials than with the sitewide TpT Sale on January 20th and January 21st!?  You can save up to 28% by finding the stores on sale and applying the TPT Promo Code: Start16.  Here is a list of FUN things for your students throughout the month of February created within my store Lovin' Little Learners!

I create Morning Work activities for every month that include Math and Literacy activities and align with the holidays for each month.  Click the link to find February's Morning Work.

Here is an example of some of the pages included:

Groundhog's Day Color by Sight Word

Reading CVC words with E as the medial vowel

Reading Heart Patterns (AB, ABC, ABB, AAB, AABB, ABCD)

Who Needs a Pencil? Count, Graph and Compare.

Groundhog's Day is February 2nd.  Two of my favorite books to read around the Groundhog's Day holiday are "Wake up, Groundhog!" and "Go to Sleep, Groundhog!"  I've created extension activities for each book and also graphic organizers that compare the two!

Find the Groundhog's Day Activities to compare both stories here: Groundhog's Day Stories 

Activities for "Wake up, Groundhog!"

Character Description for Phyllis

Text-to-Self comparison.  Phyllis wants to be Pynxsutawney Phil when she grows up.  What do you want to be when you grow up?

Students can make predictions throughout the story if you stop at the specified part in the story. Then, after you continue to read the story, compare answers with students.

Main Idea and Details for the story "Wake Up, Groundhog!"  They are provided with six details; only four of the six details are correct.  They need to glue the correct details onto the graphic organizer.

"Wake Up, Groundhog!" craftivity and writing prompt

Activities for "Go To Sleep, Groundhog!"

Character Description for Groundhog

"Go To Sleep, Groundhog!" predictions.  The students will predict if the Groundhog will see his shadow or not.  Then they will identify what it means if the Groundhog does not see his shadow.

Problem and Solution for "Go To Sleep, Groundhog!"

"Go to Sleep, Groundhog!" sequence the story.

"Go to Sleep, Groundhog!" clock craftivity

Finally, compare and contrast "Wake up, Groundhog!" and "Go to Sleep, Groundhog!" graphic organizer.

I also have many fun things for Valentine's Day too!

PUNNY Animal Themed Valentine's Day Cards

These can be used as the Valentine's Day cards that teachers give to their students year-after-year, or as an "emergency stash" for students forget to bring at the day of the party.

Franklin's Valentines Story Extension Activities

Character Description for Franklin

Problem and Solution for "Franklin's Valentines"

Beginning, Middle and End for "Franklins Valentines"

Writing Craftivity

 Finally a craftvity to recreate Franklin and his valentines that he forgot at home!

Finally a Valentine's FREEBIE!!!

This Candy Heart Sight Word Sort Canters game has the students count, sort and record the amount of letters in given sight words.  There are 48 words that are listed within the game.  The list of all 48 words are in the products description on my TPT store through the link below.

 Candy Heart Sight Word Sort!

Hip! Hip! Hooray! It is the 100th Day!

Do your students love the 100th Day as much as my students?   I like to veer off of the  normal curriculum for the day and truly celebrate everything they have learned in a really fun way!  Here are some of the activities I use from my 100th Activity Day Pack.  Find the link below.

100th Day of School Math and Literacy Activities!

Everyday we count how many days we have been in school using a Place Value chart.  When we change to the amount of days in school we say "83 days of school means 83 days smarter! Kiss your brain!"  The students love to wear crowns that say "100 days Smarter" on them!  Allow the students to decorate the crowns, cut them out, and then you can staple them to a sentence strip.

We also count to 100 every day during calendar to ensure that the students know how to by the end of the year. On the 100th day, I like to have students act things out and exercise to make it more fun.  For example as we count from 1-10 we will stretch, as we count from 10-20 we will reach, as we count from 20-30 we will do knee raises, etc.  Find some examples of ideas below!

Next, have a fun bulletin board idea that I love because it also aligns with Valentine's Day!  You can put this up at the 100th day and leave it up until after the Valentine's Day holiday!!!  Here we will make 100th fish in the fish tank.  I put my example below, however, students have smaller fingers than I do, so they fill out the page better than me!  I pick 10 colors for the students to use.  They will make 10 fish of every color to reinforce counting by 10s to 100.  I have them use their thumb (or a smaller finger if you choose to do so) as the body of the fish and the sides of their pinky finger to make the fin.  I hang them up outside of my classroom with the phrase "Of all the fish in the sea, I love to have you in class with me!"  The students LOVE the painting and have so much fun!

They can use this 100s chart to reinforce counting by 1s to 100 and coloring in any type of pattern you choose to have them do!

Many people love to have 100 day snacks to practice counting by 10s!  Here is a board full of ten frames to use while sorting your snacks!

I've also included a 100th Day of School File folder game.  Students will sort the "sweets" by if they include 100 sweets or if they do not.  As you can see below the sweets are grouped by 5s or 10s (as noted in the bottom corner).  The students can count by 5s or 10s to see if it has 100 or not.  Following the activity, I included counting by 5s and 10s paper so teacher can assess their knowledege.

Find ONLY the 100th Day File Folder Game here.

100th Day Handwriting practice can be used as morning work or a time filler!

Here is my "100 Days of Cool" student book.  Students can search for sight words/popcorn words.  I have my students "butter" the popcorn words by coloring all the words they know yellow.  They can then color the pictures, put the book together and draw themselves on the last page!

 One of my favorite books to read on the 100th day is "100th Day Worries" by Margery Cuyler.  The students think this book is so silly.  Here are some extension activities to use in the book including main character descriptions, text-to-self connections, problem and solution graphic organizer and sequencing of the story graphic organizer.

Find only the 100th Day Worries extension activities here.

Next, if you choose to create a journal for students with various writing prompts about the 100th day, here is one you can use!  There are some prompts already included and a blank one where you can have students write about whatever they want (that relates to 100 of course).

Finally, last but not least, 100th Day Certificates for kids to take home!  100 days of school means 100 days Smarter!  Kiss your Brain!

Enjoy!!! Happy 100th Day of School!!!