This week we had our Valentine's Day celebration. We made decorative envelopes to collect our valentines in and had a special snack. The kids were also very excited to deliver their valentines.
As part of our festivities, we reached back to Ancient Roman days to the Lupercalia festival on which we can trace back some of our modern Valentine's Day traditions. This ancient annual festival, observed in Rome from February 13-15, was to avert evil spirits and purify the city.
Part of the tradition was for young men to draw the name of a young woman from a jar and the pair would spend the festival time together which might result in a happy match. Our more "friend-zone" version of this tradition had the students of 1-2A put their names in a cup and the students of 1-2M each drew out the name of a friend they would be buddies with for lunch and for our writing celebration. The kids had fun being paired up and enjoyed the time with their buddy-for-the-day.
Hope you all have a fun and restful vacation! Enjoy pictures below from our party:
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