Editor’s note: Kids in grades four through six at Halverson Elementary School in Albert Lea, wrote about what love is and isn’t, as well as other sentiments of the heart.

How to tell someone likes youHow do you know that someone loves you? They act weird around you. They run away from you. They don’t tell you that they love you. But they really do care about you.

Tyler Egeness

What love means to me

There are lots of things love means. Love means joy because joy is just great! Joy is almost like loves except joy means you’re very, very happy. Love means that you care about someone a lot. Helpful is just like love. It means that you care about someone a lot. Caring is just like love. It means you care about someone a lot! Happiness is just nice to have around. Peace means that you want peace on Earth. Love means to me: joy, helpful. Happiness, and peace! That’s what love means to me.

Avery Bangert

Tell someone you like them

The thing about Valentine’s Day is that you can tell that someone likes you. Also, you love your parents and they love you! It’s the holiday of love. Cupid’s arrows might hit you, or you might not. The thing you might think about on this holiday is poems or candy. It’s really about the way you like someone. You might think it’s just about valentines, but it’s not. You can get something really special for someone you really like. I like Valentine’s Day because I can tell someone I like them. Another reason is that people may have the courage to tell they like you.

Anthony Neumann

Love is liking someone

Love tells me if you like someone and care about him or her. It also means that you might spend lots of time together. I think it means that they will be your best friend. It also means that you probably will spend your whole life together. Both of you will probably like each other.

Joel Ronnenberg

Love poem

L is for love

0 is for over loving

V is for valentines

E is for everlasting.

Nicole Merrill

Love is deep

Love lives deeper than beauty, love is if someone cares for you when you’re hurt, sick, or sad. Love is when someone helps you make the right choices. It is also when someone teaches you things you don’t know, like swimming.

Brody Sundblad

A mom’s love

I can tell my mom loves me. She stays home with me when I am sick or hurt. She packs my lunch or gives me money for hot lunch. My mom solves problems for me and helps when I need help. We do a lot of things together. We have had 10 years together. My mom loves me and I love her too.

Jeff Slominski

Love

means …

Love means to care for somebody that you love and to help the person when they are sick or in a bad situation. Love means to tell the truth and to be honest about what you are doing. To give gifts on Valentine’s Day means to love that person. Love means all the best moments that we have together.

Mary Paul

What is love?

Love is a funny feeling that you get when you look at someone. If you get mad at your brother or sister you still love them, you just don’t like what they did. If you love someone your very kind to that person. You respect their feelings. Why do you think you have friends. Because you are kind to them. That’s what love means to me.

Alexis Pestorious

Love means peace.

Love means to care for family.

Hearts are bright.

Sweets are nice.

Smiles are smiling.

Hearts are red with pink.

Sweets are nice like you.

Travis Rehbein

Valentine’s Day is a day away. Where hearts of pink and red. Are passed out to my fourth grade class. And people decorate there boxes. With ribbons, paper and foil, stickers, hearts and popsicle sticks. Where love is all around the world. Valentine’s Day is a special day for me.

Sarah Hoverson

How do you know that someone loves you?

By the look in their eye;

If they say I love you.

If they don’t run away from you,

If they are always nice to you.

Brady Hughes