It's always fun to celebrate Valentine's Day with elementary kids. For a week they have been sending each other Friendship Grams. It's a fund raiser for 4th grade. It only costs 25 cents to have a pink slip of paper delivered to a friend with a piece of penny candy taped to the back. A lot of sixth graders spend a couple dollars a day sending friendship grams to themselves.
I blew my healthy eating habits for the day. Fifth grade celebrates with an Italian luncheon. I had a whole plate of pasta and two giant frosted sugar cookies. That was an hour before our class party which was just a lot of sugar and noise. I finally got them settled down and watching a Berenstein Bear Valentines Day video. Sixth graders are pretty funny. You never know what will work. Last year's group had an impromptu dance party. This year a video for 5 year olds worked.
The most impressive part of this year's celebration was the homemade valentines. My class learned how to do origami birds for a big mobile that they're making for Art Night. That led them to origami videos online, which led to several individually made origami valentines. I was impressed.
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