Cherry Valley celebrates holiday of love
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POLSON - While Valentine’s Day is not the most celebrated holiday around the globe, it is continually growing in popularity. Here at Cherry Valley there is a definite buzz in the air! Our hallways are filling up with fun Valentine’s Day artwork and teachers are leading fun learning activities surrounding this affectionists’ holiday. Some staff members have even gone as far as wearing pink and red for the entire week leading up to the day of love.
During the 2023/2024 school year, Polson Public Schools adopted and implemented the Character Strong curriculum. Since its induction, it is not uncommon to hear students talking about caring, kindness, empathy, respect, cooperation, honesty, and gratitude. With all of these affectionate terms floating about, Valentines Day seems like the perfect holiday for our young learners. Because of this, we decided to ask some of our students a few questions about the upcoming holiday.
During an afternoon lunch break, a Cherry Valley staff member went around and asked a few students the following question 1. “Why do we celebrate Valentine’s Day?” 2. “Why is it important to do that?” 3. “Why don’t we do that everyday?”
Here are some kindergarten students’ answers:
“We celebrate to show kindness.”
It is important so your friends won’t be sad.”
“It is important because we want to be nice to people.”
“We should be nice to them everyday for 100 years!”
“It is important to be kind and help people.”
“We don’t do it everyday because not every day is Valentine’s day!”
“It is important to show them we love them.”
“We celebrate because long ago people discovered love.”
“It is important because Valentines means “love is special.””
Here is what some of our first-grade students had to say:
“We celebrate because we love people and friends.”
“Valentine’s Day is important because when you are a grown up you get married on Valentines and when you are a kid you are just friends.”
“On Valentine’s Day we show people that we care by hugging and kissing them.”
“It is important because if we don’t you will hurt their feelings and they will get mad.”
“We celebrate because it is cold and we need love to get warmer and warmer.”
“It is important because love makes you happy.”
“We celebrate to show people that we love them.”
“It is important because it spreads kindness.”
“We should be kind everyday, but the most kind on Valentines.”
“We celebrate for love, care, and niceness to others.”
It is important so you can have lots of friends and not be lonely and it helps people feel good.”
Cherry Valley students had some cute and candid responses to our questions. Though they may have been a little off a few times, they definitely have a solid understanding of Valentine’s Day; a day to spread kindness and love to make those you care about feel a little bit better.
