Hi Everyone…Valentine’s Day is almost here…YIPPEEE! I am excited because I will read my ALL TIME FAVORITE
book called… Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli and do all of my favorite Valentine’s Day school activities! These Valentine’s Day ideas are PERFECT for second and third graders! Your students will be entertained and engaged the entire time!
Whenever I read this book to my students I get such a wonderful feeling inside and it just makes me happy! I have been reading this book for years in my second grade classroom, so I decided to create a fun and interactive lesson and craftivity for my favorite book.
Check out Mr. Hatch below! Isn’t he just adorable! I literally can’t wait for my kiddos to make him and celebrate Valentine’s Day. I added three different comprehension skills in this unit. Character Traits, Summarizing with Beginning, Middle, and End, and Sequencing the events in the story with a heart-shaped accordion book.
This year I am going to focus on Character Traits for this story and teach a mini-lesson on supporting your character trait conclusions with Text-Based support as evidence to support their claim. I can’t wait to try it out. They will create Mr. Hatch and the heart-shaped cut-out. Inside the heart, they will add “Chocolate Candy Character Traits” and they will use their text-based evidence to support their ideas.
Mr. Hatch
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Thanks so much for stopping by 🙂
Hugs,
I LOVE your Mr. Hatch crafty. So cute! Thank you so much for the freebie 🙂
-Julie
The Techie Teacher