We have been learning a lot about how to be a respectful member of our classroom. We have been reading a lot of stories around this topic. We began the year with the book "Have You Filled A Bucket Today?" written by Carol McCloud. With this story we learned that everyone has an imaginary bucket that holds their good feelings. When we are kind and thoughtful, we can help to fill that person's bucket. If we are not kind, we are bucket dippers, and that does not make others feel good. Our goal is to fill everyone's bucket and in doing so, we also fill our own!
We followed up with these two bucket filling books.
After, we began with stories and conversations with the "Incredible Flexible You" series. This is a social thinking curriculum and there are 5 stories in the series. We have been learning that our actions and the things we do can affect how others around us feel. We have read and discussed three of the books in the series thus far.
Links for more info.
Bucket Filling Song (The kids love this!)
Other songs the kids love:
Kindness
By: Juicebox Jukebox
The Loving Kindness Song
By: Charity Kahn
