I have one last valentine to share before the holiday arrives. Each Tuesday and Thursday I work with a group of five first graders who are enrolled in a Spanish speaking class at a nearby elementary school. Nearly all the instruction is in Spanish, and I do not speak nor do I understand Spanish. It turns out that I don't need those skills since my job is to help them read in English. All five have good verbal skills in English so communicating is not a problem. Progress with reading English is slow, but they never seem to lack interest or enthusiasm for the process. It's the second year I've worked in this class, and it's been a wonderful volunteer experience.
I have a lot of cute valentine images, but they all use a play on words that I didn't think my first graders would get. Explaining "doggone" good won't be too hard.
This valentine uses one of my oldest stamps sets, Papertrey Ink's Tiny Treats and one of my newest dies, Altenew's Picture Perfect.
Luckily I found a set of five Paper Source A4 cards and envelopes which made this an easy valentine to put together. I colored the puppy with a Copic marker and used a red Staedtler triplus fineliner for the hearts.
I'm adding this to Darnell's February NBUS gallery since I've now put the Altenew frame to good use.
