Teacher Tips #550: Valentine's Day Worksheets and Lesson Plans

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Weekly Tips for Teachers Issue 550: January 24, 2011

This Week: Valentine's Day Teaching Guide

1. Valentine's Day Guide 2. Valentine's Lesson Plans 3. Valentine's Day Worksheets 4. New 50,000+ Printables 5. February Worksheets For K-12 Teachers Printable Sets Study Helpers Instant Teachers Forms Valentine's Day Series Valentine's Puzzles Just Click and Print It... View Complete Guide... View Puzzle Makers... Teachers: All K-12 Lessons and Worksheets...

Teacher Resources For Your Week Teaching Tip: Valentine's Day in Your Classroom Looking for some fun ideas on how to bring some V-day cheer into your class? Here are some great ideas with full lesson plans to follow: 1. Love those mixed boxes of chocolates? Have students write about it. 2. Practice compound words with a neat matching activity and candy hearts. 3. Have students create a friendship poster. 4. Graph different color candy in this fun activity. 5. Get students moving and help them learn how to raise their heart rate. 6. Have students map the circulatory system. 7. Our word family arrows activity is always a student favorite. Teachers become a Teach-nology member now! Save tons of time! This Week in History 1915: Alexander Graham Bell places the first transcontinental telephone call. 1965: Winston Churchill passes away.

Teacher Inspiration and Humor Inspiring Teacher Quote "To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching." George Bernard Shaw Jokes You Can Tell in Class My High-School English teacher was well known for being a hard but fair grader. One day I received a B minus on a theme paper. In hopes of bettering my grade and in the spirit of the Valentine season, I sent her an extravagant heart-shaped box of chocolates with the pre- printed inscription, "Be Mine." The following day, I received in return a valentine from the teacher. It read: "Thank you, but it's still Be Mine-Us."

What's Going on At Teach-nology.com Tackling Education Buzz Words Many times teachers come across new buzz words in education and really have no objective source to learn more about. That's what we are here for. We get buzz word questions sent to us on a daily basis. So we decided to start chronicling them. Here some of the latest buzz words that have come our way: - Balanced Literacy - What Is It? - Operant Conditioning - Understanding Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Mnemonic Devices - Phonemic Awareness - Metacognition Planning Ahead? If you are getting ready for late February and March, here is some help: - See Us On Facebook - See Us On Twitter - March Monthly Guide - National Women's History Month - Read Across America Day - St. Patrick's Day - World Math Day - National Agriculture Day - Earth Day - Spring Teacher Guide - April Teacher Guide - Arbor Day Teaching Theme - Easter Worksheets Online Teacher Poll Is the exchange of Valentines discouraged by your school district? - Take this week's poll - View last week's poll Best of the Web Featured websites for teachers: - Classroom Pixie - The Futures Channel - Best Teacher Site Archives Other materials and resources on our web site: * Lesson plans * Printables * Rubrics * Teaching Themes * Teacher Tips * Teacher Tools * Teacher Worksheets About Weekly Teacher Tips This newsletter is brought to you by teach-nology.com, the online teacher resource center. Share This Newsletter If you know a teacher who may be interested in receiving this newsletter, please forward it. They can also be added to our newsletter at our home page.

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