Preparing for Valentine's Day
Today I met with my Social Action Club during lunch and after school. This is my second year being the advisor for this club and I absolutely adore it! I inherited the advisor position from a retired colleague and I love the work that we do. The mission for Social Action Club is to work on projects that help needy people and animals, as well as the environment. We help at the school, local, and global community level and educate/create awareness about these topics, as well. Most of our club is made up of kids in grades 5-6 because the kids in grades 7-8 play modified sports and can't commit to being in two places at once. :-)
At our meeting today, we discussed selling Valentine's Day cards to students in our school and we needed to decide on a few organizations that we could possibly send our proceeds to. As I explained my agenda to the kids, I could barely get those words out fast enough before they unanimously decided that all proceeds would go straight to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. My heart melted.
Last year, we found many fun valentines on the computer, printed a ton of them, cut them out, and taped heart-shaped lollipops to each. We tried to find cards that were appropriate for middle school kids... not too babyish, not too boyfriend/girlfriend-ish, but just right, to suit the needs of kids in grades 5-8. This was a hard task, as Valentine's Day in middle school can be quite interesting and scary to witness. "Love, Teach" blogged about this experience and nailed it PERFECTLY. Read about it here: My 2014 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan. Amanda and I both follow her blog. Once you land on her page, browse around and don't forget to bookmark it! You will laugh over and over and over again, even if you're not a teacher!
We sold over 200 cards last year and we hope to do the same, if not more, this year. We plan on using some of the same cards because they were a hit! We obtained most from www.crapivemade.com. (Isn't the URL great?! Yikes... I didn't notice that last year!) She has these listed as free printables, so make sure to check them out!
Here are a few pictures from last year. I'll post new pictures as we get closer to the 14th!
And I thought these were too cute when I was researching today. We didn't make them, but she does list the printable and directions if you're interested!
Preparing for Valentine's Day
Today I met with my Social Action Club during lunch and after school. This is my second year being the advisor for this club and I absolutely adore it! I inherited the advisor position from a retired colleague and I love the work that we do. The mission for Social Action Club is to work on projects that help needy people and animals, as well as the environment. We help at the school, local, and global community level and educate/create awareness about these topics, as well. Most of our club is made up of kids in grades 5-6 because the kids in grades 7-8 play modified sports and can't commit to being in two places at once. :-)
At our meeting today, we discussed selling Valentine's Day cards to students in our school and we needed to decide on a few organizations that we could possibly send our proceeds to. As I explained my agenda to the kids, I could barely get those words out fast enough before they unanimously decided that all proceeds would go straight to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. My heart melted.
Last year, we found many fun valentines on the computer, printed a ton of them, cut them out, and taped heart-shaped lollipops to each. We tried to find cards that were appropriate for middle school kids... not too babyish, not too boyfriend/girlfriend-ish, but just right, to suit the needs of kids in grades 5-8. This was a hard task, as Valentine's Day in middle school can be quite interesting and scary to witness. "Love, Teach" blogged about this experience and nailed it PERFECTLY. Read about it here: My 2014 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan. Amanda and I both follow her blog. Once you land on her page, browse around and don't forget to bookmark it! You will laugh over and over and over again, even if you're not a teacher!
We sold over 200 cards last year and we hope to do the same, if not more, this year. We plan on using some of the same cards because they were a hit! We obtained most from www.crapivemade.com. (Isn't the URL great?! Yikes... I didn't notice that last year!) She has these listed as free printables, so make sure to check them out!
Here are a few pictures from last year. I'll post new pictures as we get closer to the 14th!
And I thought these were too cute when I was researching today. We didn't make them, but she does list the printable and directions if you're interested!
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