Valentine’s Day!

February 14th was Valentine’s day so we talked about…wait for it…valentines! That morning Joseph had run a fever and was feeling yucky so he wasn’t able to make it. : ( It sure was strange not having him there! (Max thought it was so funny though that he got to do two jobs during circle time. “Sarah! I just said the prayer and now I am holding the scripture story! HAHAHAAA!”  It was funny.) During singing time we played a musical hearts game, where Delainey and Max would dance around like crazy to a song, but when the music stopped, they had to run to a heart. Each heart had something funny on it to do like…blast off like a rocket, spin around 3 times while singing the ABC’s, etc.  They thought this was pretty fun!  I had initially planned for them to make valentine hugs for someone in their family, but we all decided we wanted to make them for Joseph instead to help him feel better…so we traced their hands, cut out their hands, and then measured their wingspan with yarn.  We connected the yarn to the hands and then put those “paper hugs” inside cards that they decorated. For snack time we dined on bananas and whoopie pies with pink icing. (The icing didn’t turn out as good as I had hoped but they liked them so that’s what matters!)  For our lesson we talked about estimating, and they enjoyed estimating how many hearts were in various sized containers, and then counting them. We also estimated how many hearts would fit in their hands.  Then I traced their hands and they glued those hearts on. The last fun thing we did was that we played sight word Bingo…for prizes! I made some cards in Photoshop and they both did surprisingly well for neither of them having played bingo before—although Max grew tired of the game after he won his prize haha!  It was a good activity though and I will have to remember and do it again when Joseph is with us because I think he would like it too. We sure did miss Joseph…and look forward to preschool next week when hopefully the trio will be back together again!