September 15th, 2017
What does it mean to be a Bucket Filler?
We read the storybook called "How Full is Your Bucket?" by Tom Rath, in addition to “Have You Filled A Bucket Today?” by Carol McCloud and “Bucket Filling A to Z” by Carol McCloud and Caryn Butzke. When someone's bucket is full they are happy and when it is empty they are sad/angry. We learned and talked a lot about how we can fill someone’s bucket and that when you fill someone’s bucket that will in turn fill yours. We had an activity where they chose a card, had it read, and decided whether each action was something that would fill or empty a person's bucket. If it was a Bucket Filler action then they would add cotton balls to the container and if it was a Bucket Dipper action they would take one out
Working in teams of two, we found and collected each team’s specific coloured paper buckets and matched the numbers on the buckets (some chose to match the numbers and some the number representations the back.
We exercised our fingers folding and decorating origami buckets, making mini buckets with glittery cotton balls inside, and doing a name craft where we ripped paper and glued the pieces on the line that forms the first letter of our names.
Our letters of focus this week were F and E. We learned/reviewed their sounds, wrote them, identified those letters within words they saw, and brainstormed words that began with those letters. We also built these letters with our bodies and our letter construction kit. We learned that E likes to be inside words more often than it does at the beginning of them. The word PHONE came up as being an F word so this was a great opportunity to talk about the sound P and H make when they are neighbours.
We had lots of fun making marbled paintings this week! We squeezed drops of food colouring onto shaving cream, swirled the colour around with a stir stick, smoothed a piece of cardstock onto the coloured shaving cream, then lifted and scraped off the remaining shaving cream. The results were very neat.
Our movement song this week was Wag Your Tail by Super Simple Songs, and a few of our surprise Popsicle stick nursery rhymes we had this week were Star Light Star Bright, Muffin Man, and B.I.N.G.O. We also danced and sang along to a bucket filler song each day that reminded us to always be thinking about how to fill our buckets!
Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Harvey came up in our discussions this week. We learned about what hurricanes are and where they happen, how they look from space, why they can be very dangerous, the wonderful rescue crews, what evacuate means, and what the eye of the storm is.
We were very lucky to have a chance to see where the mail goes inside of a mail truck. We see this mailman almost every day and he always goes out of his way to brighten the day of a few children.
Some other things we did this week include; puppet shows, baking, made play dough, running through the fields, puzzles, and playing in puddles. A little rain didn’t slow us down! The slide was a popular choice play on at the playground when it was so wet!
What does it mean to be a Bucket Filler?
We read the storybook called "How Full is Your Bucket?" by Tom Rath, in addition to “Have You Filled A Bucket Today?” by Carol McCloud and “Bucket Filling A to Z” by Carol McCloud and Caryn Butzke. When someone's bucket is full they are happy and when it is empty they are sad/angry. We learned and talked a lot about how we can fill someone’s bucket and that when you fill someone’s bucket that will in turn fill yours. We had an activity where they chose a card, had it read, and decided whether each action was something that would fill or empty a person's bucket. If it was a Bucket Filler action then they would add cotton balls to the container and if it was a Bucket Dipper action they would take one out
Working in teams of two, we found and collected each team’s specific coloured paper buckets and matched the numbers on the buckets (some chose to match the numbers and some the number representations the back.
We exercised our fingers folding and decorating origami buckets, making mini buckets with glittery cotton balls inside, and doing a name craft where we ripped paper and glued the pieces on the line that forms the first letter of our names.
Our letters of focus this week were F and E. We learned/reviewed their sounds, wrote them, identified those letters within words they saw, and brainstormed words that began with those letters. We also built these letters with our bodies and our letter construction kit. We learned that E likes to be inside words more often than it does at the beginning of them. The word PHONE came up as being an F word so this was a great opportunity to talk about the sound P and H make when they are neighbours.
We had lots of fun making marbled paintings this week! We squeezed drops of food colouring onto shaving cream, swirled the colour around with a stir stick, smoothed a piece of cardstock onto the coloured shaving cream, then lifted and scraped off the remaining shaving cream. The results were very neat.
Our movement song this week was Wag Your Tail by Super Simple Songs, and a few of our surprise Popsicle stick nursery rhymes we had this week were Star Light Star Bright, Muffin Man, and B.I.N.G.O. We also danced and sang along to a bucket filler song each day that reminded us to always be thinking about how to fill our buckets!
Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Harvey came up in our discussions this week. We learned about what hurricanes are and where they happen, how they look from space, why they can be very dangerous, the wonderful rescue crews, what evacuate means, and what the eye of the storm is.
We were very lucky to have a chance to see where the mail goes inside of a mail truck. We see this mailman almost every day and he always goes out of his way to brighten the day of a few children.
Some other things we did this week include; puppet shows, baking, made play dough, running through the fields, puzzles, and playing in puddles. A little rain didn’t slow us down! The slide was a popular choice play on at the playground when it was so wet!
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