During the first week of November, our class listened to the story Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide To Daily Happiness For Kids by Carol McCloud. This book is a winner of nine awards. This book explains that everyone carries an invisible bucket to hold our good thoughts and feeling about ourselves. When our buckets are full, we feel happy and when our buckets are empty, we feel sad. We need other people to fill our buckets. We fill buckets when we say and do things that are kind, considerate, caring and respectful. We dip into buckets and remove good feelings when we are mean, inconsiderate, uncaring, disrespectful or hurt others with our hands or feet.
We are encouraging the students to be bucket fillers. We are asking the students whose buckets they filled, what they said or did to fill their buckets, how they felt when they filled their buckets and how they think the other people felt when they filled their buckets. We are also encouraging the students to not be bucket dippers.
For more information about this book and bucket filling you can visit www.bucketfillers101.com.
Friday, November 6th was Random Acts of Kindness Day!
Throughout the day, our class made cards and then we toured the school to give a card and a smile cookie to every staff member in the school (teachers, administrators, ECEs, EAs, secretaries, caretakers and YMCA staff) to brighten their day. We hoped that the recipients would discover that kindness is contagious and would pay it forward by performing their own acts of kindness!
Friday, November 13th is World Kindness Day!
Here are some videos to inspire you!
We are encouraging the students to be bucket fillers. We are asking the students whose buckets they filled, what they said or did to fill their buckets, how they felt when they filled their buckets and how they think the other people felt when they filled their buckets. We are also encouraging the students to not be bucket dippers.
For more information about this book and bucket filling you can visit www.bucketfillers101.com.
Friday, November 6th was Random Acts of Kindness Day!
Throughout the day, our class made cards and then we toured the school to give a card and a smile cookie to every staff member in the school (teachers, administrators, ECEs, EAs, secretaries, caretakers and YMCA staff) to brighten their day. We hoped that the recipients would discover that kindness is contagious and would pay it forward by performing their own acts of kindness!
Friday, November 13th is World Kindness Day!
Here are some videos to inspire you!
