I love you day….
National I Love You Day is on October 14th each year.
The Bright Cookie has the PERFECT resource to incorporate this special day into your classroom! Click on the image below to be taken directly to the purchase page.
Celebrating an “I love you” day can be a positive experience for everyone, especially students/children.
Please read the following on what I turned this day into for my students in the classroom.
HOWEVER, you could also do this at home for your FAMILY as well!
National I Love You Day:
It is a day that I celebrate each year in my classroom. I thought that I would share some ideas/activities that I did on that day for those of you who would like to incorporate “I love you” day in their classrooms or at home … or even for VALENTINE’s DAY!!!
LOVE is a vital virtue to teach and practice within our classrooms. Loving each
other for our differences, loving each other for what we have in common, loving each other through each other’s
weakness AND strengths.
** This is the perfect time to brainstorm as a whole group in the
classroom about all the different “types” of love there are. **
I am going to describe to you below on how I incorporated it into my classroom each year. PLEASE feel free to STEAL my idea 🙂 and incorporate it into your classrooms as well!
**READ ALL THE WAY TO THE END FOR A FREE RESOURCE! **
First: Parent I love you letters-
An email was sent to all of the student’s parents in class asking them to write a heartfelt note/letter to their child telling him/her how much they love them (and to give some reasons why). That day I sent home a blank white envelope with the student’s name on the front and asked each parent to seal the letter within the envelope. I made sure to set the “due date” for when the letters were due back a couple of days before I needed them.
On the morning of, students walked into the classroom to see their names on envelopes hanging from the ceiling, but they had no clue what they were for!
Here are some pictures of my students reading the notes.
(They LOVED it!)
Second: “I love you because…” note from teacher.
I took a picture with each of my students (didn’t tell them why) and then put that photo
along with an individual note from me telling each of them why I love them. I gave specific reasons.
In my opinion, that makes it more special and personalized to them.
I took their picture in front of a heart photo backdrop I had purchased
off of Amazon. (Link below)
Third: I decorated the room to make the experience
as engaging as possible for my students. They thought
it was the “coolest” thing!
I put Hershey Kisses out on their desks, hung hearts from the ceiling, made
“You Matter” and “I Love You Day” posters on the school poster machine, and purchased
heart “stress” sensory toys for each of them.
Click the image below to be taken to the National I Love You Day resource I have on TPT
