Inside: Looking for ideas for your February kindergarten plans? Here are 25 ideas to help you create a more meaningful month with kids.
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Your February Kindergarten Plans
February might be the shortest month, but it arrives with a full calendar of events that offer sparks for learning and can help brighten up even the darkest days of winter.
And if winter is feeling particularly loooooong this year, keep in mind that February 2nd, Groundhog’s Day, is the midpoint of the season – so you are half way to Spring!
In addition to Groundhog’s Day, here are a few other fun events that you might include in your February plans.
February 4th Winter Olympics Begin
February 4th Thank a Mail Carrier Day
February 9th Pizza Day
February 11th Inventor’s Day
February 14th Valentine’s Day
February 16th Pancake Day
February 17th Random Acts of Kindness Day
February 20th Love Your Pet Day
February 21st President’s Day
February 26th Tell a Fairy Tale Day
February 27th Polar Bear Day
February 28th Tooth Fairy Day
25 Ideas for Creating a Meaningful Month
Try something new this month by adding one or more of these ideas to your February kindergarten plans!
Involve kids in a Groundhog’s Day Collection Project where they will survey classmates and each other about predictions for Groundhog’s Day.
Invite kids to bring in a 100th day collection and then plan an “olympic style” set of measurement events to discover who has the longest, shortest, heaviest, and lightest collection.
Challenge your kiddos to 100th Day Investigations, where they’ll do math and science activities built around the number 100. The one below shows children finding out which is heavier – 100 pieces of popped or unpopped corn.
Use the 100th day to launch a fun animal inquiry around the question, How many legs does a centipede have? Involve children in the research process to find the answer.
Celebrate 100 days of learning with a “smart cookie” themed virtual event.
Play 100 Grid Games or go on a 100 Grid Hunt to help kids learn more about the pattern of our number system.
Surprise children with their own box of candy hearts and use them to do Candy Heart Math Investigations.
Create valentines for your kiddos, and give out a few each day by reading the address on the front of the card. If they know their address, they receive the card. If not, it goes back into the “mail bag” and they keep practicing.
Read My Heart is Like a Zoo and work together with kids to create your own “zoo” of heart-shaped animals.
Create Kindness Rocks with positive messages and randomly distribute them around your community.
Go on a “heart hunt” to look for objects found in nature that are shaped like hearts. Invite families to continue the hunt at home and send in photos of what they find.
Ask families to donate heart-shape craft materials and let kids use them to create beautiful “collages” on the front of cards and Valentine bags. Pair this experience with some How-To Writing, where kids learn the steps for How to Make a Valentine or How to Mail a Letter.
Take a Virtual Field Trip to the Post Office, where children will learn how to write a letter and discover its journey once it is mailed.
Read Love Monster and the Last Chocolate by Rachel Bright and then surprise kids with a “postcard” and a “heart-shaped box of Valentine fun,” from Love Monster himself.
Explore “heart wonders,” with kids such as “Do people need love?” or “What color is love?”
Share the poem, Valentines by Aileen Fisher and make pine cone feeders for February birds.
Bring the outdoors in by Exploring Live Webcams for Animal Research.
Begin a Bald Eagle Research Project by following the journey of an eagle family who lay their eggs in February.
Take a Virtual Field Trip to the White House where children learn about the President’s job, where he lives, and take a virtual tour.
Offer a Paintbrush STEAM challenge where kids design, build, and test their own brushes.
Spice up your ELA block by learning 7 Playful ways to do Letter Sound Drills.
Begin a new weekly math routine with Counting Jars, where kids learn how to count out sets of objects by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.
Boost kids’ oral language and retelling skills by creating Story Maps from favorite fairy tales.
And get ready for March, by spending the last few days of February learning about “lion and lamb weather” and making predictions about whether the new month will come In Like a Lion, or Go Out Like a Lamb.
Wishing you a fantastic February with your kids!
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