Students then reflected on their first days.
Today, with an aid of a book, we discussed that we all have invisible buckets that we carry around. Everyone has one. On chart paper we brainstormed ways we could fill other people's buckets (sharing, encouraging, standing up for others getting picked on, and saying "good morning!,"). We also recorded ways in which we are bucket dippers (pushing, being a bully, tripping, mean words, not sharing, bossing people around, laughing at them, and ignoring them.) Students wanted our classroom to be full of bucket fillers. They wanted to leave at the end of the day with their buckets full and happy. The book is a great picture of how our words and actions affect people. After discussing it as a class, students worked with a partner to complete a graphic organizer of even more ways they could be a bucket filler. And yesterday we read a book called First Day Jitters. The whole time we are reading it, the author leads us to believe that a student is very nervous about the first day of school. Ask your child who it was and how the author kept that from us!
Students then reflected on their first days.
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