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Valentine Sight Word Activities: Heart Delivery

January 21, 2015 •

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Valentine’s Day is a perfect holiday for encouraging literacy development.  There are so many fun Valentine books and activities to read and do during the cold winter months.

Today, I have a fun activity to practice sight word recognition and it pairs well with one of our favorite Valentine books.

A fun and playful Valentine sight word activity to work on sight word recognition from growingbookbybook.com.

Valentine Read & Play

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the day it rained hearts

The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond is a sweet little story about a girl named Cornelia Augusta who collects falling hearts.  She carefully inspects each one and chooses a “just right” heart for each of her friends to create Valentine’s Day cards.  You may remember this book with a different title.  It used to be called Four Valentines in a Rainstorm.

PLAY

It’s time to let it rain sight word hearts!

Materials needed: 20 paper hearts, marker, 5 envelopes, tape, and a small basket

1.  Pick 5 sight words that your child needs to practice reading.  On each paper heart you will write a sight word.  You want to end up with four hearts for each sight word.  You could even let your child do this step to practice their spelling and handwriting skills.

2.  On the back of each envelope you will  write on of these  same sight words.  Write the word on the bottom below the flap.

3.  Tape each envelope to a door in your house.  You want the back side of the envelope with the sight word on it facing out so the “mail carrier” can see it.

4.  Scatter the hearts on the floor to make it appear that it has just rained hearts.

5.  Give your little one a basket.

Time to play!

picking up hearts for sight word activity

Have your children collect the hearts that fell from the sky into their basket.  Each time they pick up a heart have them read the sight word.

placing the hearts in the sight word envelopes

After all the hearts have been collected, it’s time to deliver them to the right homes.  Your little mail carriers should deliver all the hearts to the right envelopes.

Variation:  For older children, you could use your child’s spelling list to label the hearts.  Use letters of the alphabet for younger children.

Enjoy this fun and playful Valentine sight word activity!

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Filed Under: All categories, Learning to Read Tagged With: gross motor, sight words, Valentine's Day

About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

Comments

  1. Jill says

    February 1, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    This is a really fun spin on learning sight words!

    Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

  2. Jennifer Dawn says

    January 27, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    What a cute idea! I’m going to try this with my daughter!

  3. Christa Brown says

    January 26, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    Hi Jodie! I’m visiting from the After School Link Up! You always have such great ideas! I’ll be doing this creative Valentine idea during Valentine’s week. Thanks so much for sharing!
    Christa @littlelogcottageschool.com

    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      January 26, 2015 at 10:31 pm

      Thanks so much Christa!

  4. Jolene says

    January 25, 2015 at 12:49 pm

    I think this is such a fab idea!

  5. Natasha says

    January 22, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    Love it! Such a fun way to learn sight words.

  6. Kate says

    January 22, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    What a fun and active way to practice sight words!

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