Happy Valentine's Day Activities

                                                                 Grade 3 Curriculum Map

Celebrate kindness, friendship, and positive emotions with 36 NO‑PREP Valentine’s Day activities your Grade 3 students will love! 💌✨ This integrated resource strengthens skills in phonics, reading, writing, science, health, and critical/creative thinking, while also supporting emotional awareness and social connection.

The included Teacher Guide features Valentine’s Day poems, background information, and suggestions for meaningful extension activities. 🌟

💕 Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Learn about the history and traditions of Valentine’s Day ❤️
• Explore and promote love, friendship, and kindness 🤝
• Practice key academic skills through a fun seasonal theme 🎉
• Appreciate Valentine’s Day poetry and stories 📚
• Study the human heart and understand its basic functions 🫀 

📘 What’s Included

Introduction & Teacher Guide

Teacher Notes:

• Objectives
• Valentine Vocabulary List

• Heart Compounds List
• Human Heart Word List
• Resource List

Teacher Information on Valentine’s Day:

• The Legends of St. Valentine’s
• Lupercalia
• Early St. Valentine’s Day Customs
• Early Valentines
• Valentines in North America
• Early Love Tokens
• God of Love
• Birds of Love
• Red Hearts for a Sweetheart
• Saying it With Flowers

Teacher Information on the Human Heart

Teacher Input Suggestions

Valentine Poetry

List of Skills

Student Activity Tracking Sheet

Answer Key 

🔤 Phonics Skills

• Digraph review
• Root words
• Contractions
• Beginning, middle & ending consonants
• Hard/soft “Cc”

🔎 Word Study

• Word search
• Crossword puzzle
• Spelling words
• Antonyms
• Alphabetical order

📝 Language

• Common & proper nouns
• Using adjectives
• Using adverbs
• Using verbs
• Capitalization & punctuation

💡 Brainstorming

• Thinking of promises
• Classifying words by color
• Thinking of customs/special days
• Explaining a feeling
• Designing a machine 

✍️ Creative Writing

• Writing a letter
• Choosing a title & writing a story
• Completing a Valentine verse
• Interviewing a friend
• Completing a rhyme

📖 Reading

Teacher Tips for the Reading Activities

Story 1 The Legend of St. Valentine

Story 2 Valentine’s Day in Skunk Hollow

Story 3 Peter’s Surprise

Story 4 Barney Bear’s Valentine Secret

• Recalling information
• Noting detail
• Drawing conclusions
• Recalling & illustrating details

🫀 Health Activities

• Brainstorming & alphabetical order
• Planning & organizing
• Illustrating a poster
• Vegetable survey
• Brainstorming & illustrating
• Word meanings
• All About My Heart booklet 

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