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Parent Communication: Vruksha “Valentine’s Day” Celebrations Activities

I Love you forever

I Love you for always As long as I’m living

My love you’ll be

Love of a Child ! V a l e n t i n e f o r P a r e n t s

Montessorian’s Valentine’s Day Celebration

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Dear Montessori Parent,

As part of our Montessori celebrations we celebrate “Valentine’s Day” as “Mummy & Daddy I Love you - A Valentine for Parents” on 14th February 2015.

We make use of this opportunity to give our children various activities imparting values like Loving, Caring, Helping and how to be “Being Lovable”, involving activities based on Sensory Development, Motor Skills Development, Craft Skills Development and Cultural Development.

Also unlike other activities this celebration focuses on parents, involving them to develop opportunities to express love to their children in daily life. We also request parents to make use of this opportunity to identify ways to remain determined to give child sustained love and affection, tolerating all their deviation tantrums, setting aside our ego and anger. We should continuously put efforts to respect the child (respecting all their actions, expression and their living as a whole)

1. Vruksha Valentine Circle Lessons [@School Activity] • Love of parents • Love of grandparents • Whom all you like and why? • Loving pets • Father, Mother and Child in Animals and Birds Family

2. Heart Smart - Vruksha Valentine Activity [@School Activity] • Love from heart • Trust with your heart • Care from heart • Being good at heart • Serve with your heart • Clean in heart

3. Vruksha Valentine Story Time [@School Activity]

• Story of Heart (Functions of Heart) • Story of Rose • Story of Friendship • Story of Parents • Story of Grandparents

4. Vruksha Valentine Chart Making [@Home Activity]

• “Animals or Birds Family” Loving Expressions Chart (Loving moments of child animal/Bird with its family)

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5. Vruksha Valentine’s Day Activity Time [@School Activity] • Transfer Activities using Pink fluids, objects like hearts for Toddlers. • Color Mixing Activities • Squeezing Activity using Heart Shaped Sponges

6. Vruksha Valentine’s Day Writing Activities [@School Activity]

• Valentine’s Day Scroll • Valentine’s greetings Post Card Activity and sending by post • Writing Activities based on Valentine’s Day Themes

7. Valentine’s Day Reading Activities [@School Activity]

• Build nomenclature cards for Loving, Caring, Helping • Valentine’s Day Photo Sequencing Cards • Valentine’s Day Pink Series Reading Activities • Valentine’s Day Blue Series Reading Activities

8. Vruksha Valentine Gift • Gifting the Child by Parents [@Home Activity] • Gifting the Parent by Child [@School Activity]

9. Vruksha Valentine’s Day Science Activities • Stethoscope Science: Hearing Heart Rates • Valentine’s Crystal Heart - Crystal Growing Activity

10. Vruksha Valentine’s Day Craft Activities [@School @Home Activity] • Vruksha’s Valentine Greeting Cards Making • Valentine Band Making • Valentine’s day Angels

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• Valentine’s Day Cookie Arrows

• Chaining Hearts

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• Hearts in a Bottle

• Valentine’s Day Lantern Craft

11. Family Photo Session - Expression of Love with Family Members [@Home Activity] • Kissing • Hugging • Hanging on to the Neck • Climbing the Shoulder • Swinging • Family Dining

• Family Outing • Family Walk • Family Bath • Family Shopping • Family Fun

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12. Symbols of Love - Mega Art [@School Activity] • With Montessori Materials • With Materials of Nature • With Flower Decorations • With Hand Art • With Human Models

13. Coloring Activity [@Home @School Activity] • Objects (e.g. Hearts, Rose) • People (e.g. Mother Teresa) • Places (e.g. Taj-Mahal)

• Expressions of Love

14. Finger Plays - Expressions of Love [@School Activity]

• Formation • Shadow Art (Single or Group Activity)

15. Puppet Gallery [@School Activity] • Loving moments of school

16. “Color of Love” Activity [@School Activity]

17. Who all you like & Who all likes you - Game with Child [@School Activity]

18. Vruksha Valentine’s day Sensory Tub [@School Activity]

19. Vruksha Valentine’s Day Compendiums [@School Activity]

20. How to be “Being Lovable” - Grace and Courtesy Lessons [@School Activity]

21. Words of Love - Movable Alphabet Activity - Pre Writing Skills Children [@School Activity]

22. Pink Alphabets, Alphabets of Heart, Alphabets of Rose - Pre Writing Skills Children [@School Activity]

23. Heart of Alphabets - Using movable alphabets – Pre Writing Skills Children [@School Activity]

24. Alphabet Decoration Templates with Hearts and Roses (Alphabets which they are currently working on) - Pre Writing Skills Children [@Home Activity]

25. Picture Writing - Writing Skills - Advanced Children [@School Activity]

26. Heart - Symbol of Love Painting Activity - Writing Skills - Advanced Children [@School Activity]

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27. Heart – Symbol of Love Craft Making Activity - Writing Skills - Advanced Children [@School Activity]

28. “Valentine Angels and Gods” - Valentine Fancy Dress for Child and Parents [@School Activity]

29. “Date your Elders” - Trip to Grand Parents or Aged Relatives Home (the Day before Valentine Day) [@Home Activity]

30. Building “House of Love” - Day Camp Activity [@School Activity]

31. “We Love Vruksha” - Loving moments photo session at School [@School Activity]

32. Vruksha Valentine Games for Parent [@School Activity] • Win, Loose, or Draw! • “Me and Mummy”

33. Vruksha Valentine Snack Preparation Activity [@Home Activity]

Pink Color, Heart shaped Toffees, Cakes, and Cookies etc.

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34. Vruksha Valentine Prepared Environment – Home & School Decoration [@School @Home Activity] Color Scheme • Red and white • Pinks and creams.

General Decorations • Lots of candles. • You'll be dining under the stars so hang stars from your ceiling. You can use white twinkle

lights, make white poster board stars, or purchase stick on stars. You'll find glow in the dark stick on plastic stars in kid's toy stores.

• If you have any decorative pedestals or columns on hand, place baskets of greenery or flowers on them by your doorways or around the banquet area.

• Use as many silk trees and greenery as possible.

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For The Snack Tables • Red and white check table cloths or placemats. • Candles • Mirror tiles to reflect the candlelight

35. Vruksha Valentine’s Day Psychomotor Skills Activity

Salsa Movements for Children.

You are requested to take part in these celebrations. Details of activities can be got from the school. Your Suggestions are also welcome.

Wishing you “The Joy of loving your child!”

Best Regards

Directress

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