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Teaching letter writing to kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students is even more fun and engaging with this Valentine Day activity! Your students will love selecting a staff member to send a poster-sized Valentine to, all while learning the parts of a letter and the letter writing process. Follow it up with a writing activity where students get to send a Valentine letter to someone special!

Valentine’s Day Writing Activity

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The Inspired Apple has some great activities to use this February! From Groundhog Day to Valentine's Day to Presidents' Day to Dental Health month, you'll be inspired to add some fun activities into your curriculum or thematic units. Crafts, anchor charts, posters, and a free activity, too! Be sure to check this post out if you teach preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or second grade!

February Activities for the Primary Classroom

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If you're looking for a comprehensive curriculum for teaching science to students in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, you must check out The Science Of... series by Cara Carroll and Abby Mullins! This cross-curricular set of unit plans, not only teaches science concepts, but also provides the teacher several options for teaching thematically in ELA and math, too! The lessons are engaging and fun. This set focuses on: light science, dental health, candy science, and heart science!

February Science Activities

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Teachers! Check out this set of February Anchor Charts and Class Poster templates that are perfect to use during your thematic units this February. These are great to use when teaching about letter writing during Valentine's Day, Dental Health Month, President's Day, Black History Month, and groundhogs! Each poster comes with corresponding recording sheets to use for individual student responses to the content.

February Anchor Charts and Class Posters

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Teachers, these three activities will help you teach your students about inferencing and will lay the groundwork so that students can infer while reading! There's a video explanation included along with a FREE activity that will support your teaching of inferences in the kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, or fifth grade classroom!

How to Teach Inferencing: Lesson Plans & Activities

Check out this video to learn more on how to teach inferencing (click

Here's a fun writing craft that's perfect to use after Holiday Break to not only celebrate the New Year, but also to help your students focus on some end-of-the-year goal setting! It comes with three different options, along with writing paper variations (lined, dotted lined, and unlined). It's great for students in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade!

Easy New Year’s Writing Craft

Here’s a fun New Year’s writing craft that’s perfect to use after Holiday