More Bucket Filling...

After starting bucket filling last week, I still had some questions... here are some of my tips that are helping to make bucket filling successful.




How do you manage bucket filling?

• Only 1 students at the buckets at a time.
• Buckets can only be filled when your "jobs" are done.
• Find a "good time" (not in the middle of instruction)

Bucket Fillers?

• I made a certificate to send home with the students to share our bucket filling with their families.
• The certificate is in place of ALL rewards for full buckets or bucket filling.

Bucket Dippers?

• If someone's bucket was dipped by disobeying our classroom rules (hands and feet to ourselves) then, I use our stoplight system behavior plan to address the incident.

Below are my writing piece I did with my students to kick off our bucket filling life, my home-to-school connection piece, and my title for our bucket center in my classroom! Enjoy!
Sign

Attention Bucket Fillers!

Have You Filled a Bucket Today?

Okay.... last week was a CRAZY CRAZY week in my first grade class. I feel like my students have really been struggling with peer interactions with kind words, helping each other, and controlling themselves. After a violent incident in the lunch room, I decided to take action. We are now BUCKET FILLERS! Check it out....


I grabbed this book and stopped my instruction for a bucket emergency! I began by reviewing our classroom rules (thanks for our fabulous PBIS program in my school). I pulled all of my materials out and my class worked together to make a section in our classroom for bucket filling. For each student, they traced their hand and we took an oath to follow the classroom rules. 

Then, I read this FANTASTIC book to my class. It's a MUST READ!

We acted out what it would look like to be a bucket filler and dipper. My students did VERY WELL with acting and identifying if it was bucket filling and dipping and why. So there is hope...

I used a hanging shoe organizer to hold everyone's bucket. Also, I found small children's cups in the dollar section of Target months ago and bought enough for my chart. To fill our buckets, we are using pom poms of all shapes and sizes!

I need your help too!!!
How do you manage bucket filling?
How do you celebrate when a child has a full bucket?
What happens to our consistent bucket dippers?
PLEASE share all and any of your great ideas!

Lucky Charm Data!

In math we are working on collecting, organizing, and reading data in lots of different ways! For St. Patrick's day we discovered the leprechaun left us some of his treasure! We gathered from our T-R-A-P-S and decided to graph it!

This was an easy way to practice some of our math vocabulary words like most and least! We also loved counting up all of the leprechaun marshmallows!

St. Patrick's Day

I hope everyone was lucky enough to have a visit from the leprechaun on St. Patrick's day this year!


We knew the leprechaun came because he left a HUGE mess, left gold coins, chocolate, footprints, peed in our toilet, and messed with all of our T-R-A-P-S. (We never said the word TRAP because we knew the sneaky leprechaun would be listening!)

They LOVED building, sharing, and setting up these T-R-A-P-S for the sneaky leprechaun that kept messing up our classroom!

Mama's Birthday Present

This week we are reading Mama's Birthday Present. Here is some word work that I am using in guided reading this week that helps practice the -ai and -ay vowel sounds! 


ai and ay

Synonyms

Thanks to the help of my newest blogger, I learned how to use Scribd! Thanks Julie!


Anyways... here is a little St. Patrick's day fun with practicing synonyms. Just print, laminate, cut, and match the synonyms.

Synonyms

PDF Posting Help!

Hi Everyone,


I have made a few cute word work activities to share but I am having trouble attaching them here. When I converted them into Googledocs, they were not in original format. So, I have them in a PDF file, but I don't know how to attached or share them on my blog!


Anyone have any suggestions how to share a PDF file??


THANKS!