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How to Celebrate Love and Kindness With This Emergent Reader Set

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Inside: Use this I Show Love and Kindness Interactive Emergent Reader to celebrate love and kindness with kids. 


My son’s middle school just emailed me for a new fundraiser…sending red roses to my 12 year old son in his homeroom class on Valentine’s Day. 

Valentine’s Day often gets a bad rap with the overcommercialization. And I get it. The stores are crammed with candy and candy flowers and candy cards. 

But you know what? I still love it. Because Valentine’s Day comes once a year and it’s fun to lean into the hearts and the candy and the roses sent to 12 year olds. 

Related: Heart Kind or Unkind Sort

Because the real magic of the holiday is all the different kinds of love in this world.

It’s showing people how much you care about them every day–not just on Valentine’s Day–by treating them with kindness. And for our young kids, it’s connecting all the different ways to show love and kindness to the people in their lives. 

To help them understand all the different ways to show love and kindness, we can use this I Show Love and Kindness emergent reader set. 

Use this love and kindness emergent reader to help kids understand all the ways they can show love.

Other Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Kids 

We love celebrating Valentine’s Day with kids. 

We use these Kindness Notecards:

We use this Heart Themed Kind or Unkind Sort:

We make these Valentine Card Placemats:

Valentine's Day craft for kids made out of your kids valentine's day cards they get from school. #valentinesday #valentinesdaycraft #valentinesdaycraftforkids

We have the Kindness Elves bring ways to spread kindness during February:

We make this Kind Heart, Happy Heart craft: 

Then continue to sew the two hearts together. 

And we read these Valentine’s Day books: 

The Runaway Valentine

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You Are My I Love You

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A You’re Adorable 

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The I Love You Book

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Oh, Valentine, We’ve Lost Our Minds (chapter book)

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The Valentine Bears 

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Valentine’s Day

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Lego City Wrecking Valentine’s Day

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How to Use the I Show Love and Kindness Emergent Reader 

1. Purchase and download the I Show Love and Kindness Emergent Reader Set.

Use this love and kindness emergent reader to help kids understand all the ways they can show love.

2. Print out the version you wish to use: color or black and white and cut them apart. I swear by my paper cutter I bought my first year teaching because I can’t cut a straight line. 

Use this love and kindness emergent reader to help kids understand all the ways they can show love.

If you use the black and white version, use these skin color crayons so students can color in the people.

Use this love and kindness emergent reader to help kids understand all the ways they can show love.

3. On the last page, students can draw their favorite way to show love and kindness to anyone in their life: family, friends, teachers, coaches or pets. 

Use this love and kindness emergent reader to help kids understand all the ways they can show love.

4. Read the book together. You can follow up with partner reading, silent reading, group reading, or reading to a class pet/stuffed animal.

Celebrate Love and Kindness With This Emergent Reader Set

6. Use the Discussion Starters to further the conversation about holidays and why it’s important that we know about how other people celebrate. 

Use this love and kindness emergent reader to help kids understand all the ways they can show love.

7. Students can write or dictate about their own holidays or write about a classmates’ holiday they learned about. 

Use this love and kindness emergent reader to help kids understand all the ways they can show love.

And then celebrate Valentine’s Day with gusto…get all the candy and the hearts and give the flowers. Even to the middle school boys who say they don’t like flowers. 

Ready to get the I Show Love and Kindness Emergent Reader Set?

Purchase the I Show Love and Kindness Emergent Reader in our online store. 

Purchase the I Show Love and Kindness Emergent Reader on Teachers Pay Teachers.

 

Use this love and kindness emergent reader to help kids understand all the ways they can show love.

 

Celebrate our differences and learn about multicultural holidays with this interactive emergent reader set: We Celebrate Differently


These Valentine's Day activities are a perfect way to celebrate Valetnine's Day with kids and include activities, arts, crafts and kindness activities #Valentinesday #valentinesart #valentinescrafts #valentinesdayprojects #valentinesprojects

 

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I’m Nicole and am a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and the founder of The Raising Kind Kids Club where we share strategies and resources with busy parents and educators to intentionally focus on kindness, family connection, and bullying prevention.

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