Using Valentine’s Day to teach kids about love can take a whole lot of forms. Love is kindness. Love is compassion. Love is friendship. And how better to do it in the elementary school classroom than by pulling out children’s books about love that put this complicated concept in kid-friendly language?
Whether you’re阅读图画书你的幼儿园或寻找孩子’s books that will help inspire your fourth graders to write about feelings, we’ve got you covered with some of our teacher team’s favorite children’s books about love of yourself, love of your community, and more.
Children’s Books About Love
From a variety of talented authors, these children’s books about love focus on many different things: What it means to be loved, how nice it is to feel loved, and why showing appreciation and love to those around us can make the world a better place.
爱使一个家庭by Sophie Beer
读一本促进更具包容性课堂环境的书从来没有一个糟糕的时光爱使一个家庭恰好适合一本书，庆祝家庭有各种形状和大小的想法。
这本书提醒孩子们，在家庭中重要的不是由谁组成的人，而是其中发现的爱。您的教室可能由来自两父母家庭的孩子，单亲家庭，祖父母或其他亲戚是监护人，寄养家庭或许多其他类型的家庭的孩子组成。这本书庆祝了每一个人的爱，并提醒孩子们没有一个正确的方法来弥补家庭。
Why not have a class discussion about how many people each of your students have in their families? You can extend this idea by using this information to create a family crest or family tree to display in your classroom so your students can feel the family love all year round!
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
Written in the form of a poem, this lyrical children’s book about love by Empire actor Grace Byers introduces kids to one of the most important kids of love there is: Loving yourself! Follow up a reading ofI Am Enoughwith thispositive self-talk worksheetcreated by Teach Starter collaborator Jennifer Hall, a teacher from North Carolina to encourage your students to share all the reasons they to are enough!
塞德拉·马利·布克（Cedella Marley Booker）的一只爱
Bob Marley’s daughter has taken the singer’s iconic song and turned it intoa book about love for kids这教导了关于社区爱情的授权信息。当她提醒我们是一只爱，一颗心，让我们聚在一起，感觉一切顺利时，加入了一个小女孩。
After reading, why not brainstorm different things your students can do to make a difference in their own communities, creating a list on your whiteboard?
When I’m Feeling Love by跟踪莫雷尼
Trace Moroney的这本可爱的图画书是一种很好的方式，可以教给学生爱某人和被某人爱的感觉。
Why not use this book as a prompt for a social and emotional activity? Print out our free爱心模板，并要求学生充满所有使他们感到爱的东西！
本书的结尾为这项活动提供了一些很好的讨论提示：
- Describe what love means to you.
- Name some people and pets that you love.
- What are some things that you really love about being you?
- What are some things you love to do?
隐形字符串by帕特里斯·凯斯特（Patrice Karst）
Read this book to teach your students all about隐形字符串这将我们与我们爱和爱我们的世界各地的每个人联系起来。这是一本很棒的书，可以帮助那些可能亲人的学生或由于大流行而无法见到自己爱的人的孩子。
您的学生会喜欢有机会给隐形事物依附的人发送一封信！为什么不要求他们为他们所爱的人居住的人写一封信（甚至是护理包！）呢？
Getletter writing resourcesto help scaffold your students’ learning.
Thelma独角兽亚伦·布拉贝（Aaron Blabey）
Poor Thelma is feeling a little sad… she wants nothing more than to be a unicorn! Another children’s book is about loving yourself as you are, this one focuses on the wonderful things about being unique.
大声朗读或与作者亚伦·布拉贝（Aaron Blabey）一起阅读，因为Thelma意识到自己是最好的事情。
This picture book lends itself to activities about feelings, discovery, and loving yourself. Have your class complete this推断 - 角色的感受worksheet, then ask your students to think about all the things they love about themselves.
世界现在需要的是爱Burt Bacharach和Hal David
我们都知道这首心爱的歌曲现在世界需要的是爱（甜蜜的爱）！现在你有了children’s book from Burt Bacharach and Hal David- 1965年热门歌曲的原始词曲作者 - 与您的整个班级分享爱的特别信息。这本书凭借其令人惊叹的插图和舒缓的歌词，教会了孩子们关于爱的重要性，以及为什么它对使世界变得更美好至关重要。
阅读本书后，请您的学生用写作模板“分享爱”designed to show gratitude and spread a little love.
