Target Tuesday Valentine Mailboxes

It's Target Tuesday and there's still time to grab one or two of those adorable little metal mailboxes from Bulleye's Playground!

 

 

I bought my mailboxes last year but all of the local Target stores have them this season, too. You'll find shiny tins, classic red, pretty pink, as well as mailboxes covered with festive hearts. 

 

My class was due for a review of sight words so I made cards to use during small groups. I put a stack of word cards in the mailboxes and provided each student with a recording sheet. The kids LOVED pulling cards out of the mailbox, reading the word, and writing it! I LOVED how much fun they had doing word work! It was a Win-Win!

 

 

The mailboxes won't get packed away with other Valentine's Day goodies either. I can easily adapt this activity for spring by printing the words on pastel colored paper. I can put frog and turtle diecuts in the mailboxes when we have our pond life theme. Or I can "mail" each student a personalized list of words they need to practice. The possibilities are endless!

Valentine Math Centers

Super excited it's Valentine's week so I'm sharing a few Valentine Math Centers with sweet Tara at her  Monday Made It !  Be sure to check out what everyone's been making!

 

 

In addition to our regular math centers...Unifix cubes, dice, linking chains, magnet numbers, ten frames, and more...I provided my class with several fun and easy to make Valentine centers!

 

My Young 5's are learning to read number words so I created a simple Valentine game to give  them more practice.  I took a stack of cheap, white paper dessert plates and wrote the number words on them...tossed some Dollar Store heart shaped erasers into a holiday bowl...and let the reading and matching begin!  So easy!

 

 

 

Here's another activity you can make in just a few minutes!  It's  easy peasy!  I bought a package of decorative Valentine plates and labeled half with the number words and the other half with the numeral.  Students make a set by stacking the matching plates together.  I wrote on the back of each plate to make it self checking, too!

 

 

 

These little sweethearts are practicing their number words while counting Valentine cats!  I found a bag of pink kitty erasers during Halloween at the Target Dollar Spot and forgot to use them saved them for my Valentine centers!  For the numeral cards, I made a basic table and inserted cat clip-art along with the number words.  I printed a copy on pink paper and another on yellow paper giving me two centers!  When students finish one color they "get" to do the other one, too!  

 

 

Print, laminate, ready to go!  Does it get any easier than that?  We're working on missing numbers and what comes next so these  Heart Write-and-Wipe Cards are perfect practice! 

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Quick, easy, fun Valentine Math Centers!