These alphabet activities for Valentine’s Day are perfect for your kindergarten literacy centers during the month of February! Actually, these alphabet activities can be used year round! Although all the activities can be used for small group instruction and independent centers, this Valentine Bear activity is particularly ideal for independent centers as it has a self checking feature. So here’s how that self checking feature works. First students place the beginning sound pictures on the corresponding alphabet bear template. Once all the pictures are placed on the template, the students turn the cards over and if the upper- and lowercase letters match, their responses were correct. Super easy! Great for teaching beginning sounds or upper- to lower-case letters!   The