This week we read "Have you Filled a Bucket Today?" by Carol McCloud. The
book explains that we all carry an invisible bucket in which we
keep our good thoughts and good feelings about ourselves. When
our buckets are full,
we are happy; when our buckets are empty, we are sad. You
fill a bucket
when you show love to someone, when you smile, make someone
feel special
or do something kind. That’s being a bucket filler. A bucket
filler
is someone who says or does nice things to other people.
Bucket fillers
are those who help without being asked or give hugs and
compliments.
By filling other people's buckets, we fill our own bucket too!
This
is a song that goes along with the book that we read. I found the cute
little song on YouTube and the Kids loved it! After reading about
being a bucket filler we wrote about how we could be bucket fillers in
our classroom. All of my wonderful bucket fillers did awesome on this
activity!
I put our bucket filler activity on our wall over our cubbies to remind all our friends to always be bucket fillers and not bucket dippers!
I love the way they turned out!
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend with buckets overflowing with fun!!!
Our new classroom sign that hangs outside of our classroom with all of our fingerprints! I am so excited about this amazing group of Kindergartners! I just know we are going to have an amazing year!
Last Friday and this Monday when everyone came for a day of staggered entry I did a read aloud
with the book "The Crayon Box That Talked" by Shane DeRolf to talk
about how we are all different but that it takes all of us to make up
our classroom and how each one of us is important to make our picture
complete! The kids did an awesome job making connections to real life
situations with this book! We did an activity where the students
colored their own crayon to be a part of our classroom crayon box! It
turned out AWESOME!
Also,
I hope everyone loved our special little project we made on their first day! I hope they all made them home!
This has been such a great and fun week and I can only hope everyone has enjoyed it as much as I have! I have a good feeling this is going to be a wonderful year!!!
