Getting Into The Swing Of Things…

The Super Kid’s classroom has been learning about being bucketfillers.  Do you know what a bucketfiller is?  A bucketfiller is a person who helps others feel good, includes others, and is kind to friends.  We read “How Full Is Your Bucket?” by Tom Rath and discussed how we could be fill someone’s bucket.  Check out the link below to watch a video of the book.

We then brainstormed different ideas for our class contract.  Everyone had great suggestions.  We came up with:

The Super Kids promise to:

  • be kind and helpful to others
  • treat others the way we want to be treated
  • take turns
  • include others
  • be bucketfillers
  • have fun

Then we all signed it and hung it on our classroom wall.

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Our class started reader’s workshop this week.  Each groups gets to cycle through two different literacy activities each time we have reader’s workshop.  The kids were very excited to get started.  We made new profiles on the app “Epic” for each of the new Super Kids.  The returning grade two students helped set them up.  Epic is an app we use on the iPads that is like Netflix for books.  It is free to classrooms.  The kids love personalizing their profiles and finding books that are interesting to them.  Check it out at home if you are interested in using it.

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The Super Kids started their journals and were excited to share their writing with other students in the classroom.

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Each day we have centres.  This is a time where the kids get to pick their activities independently.  Many are picking to go to blocks, lego, computer, games and puzzles.  Some students are generating questions at the science centre.  “What is sand made of?”  and “What lived in this shell?” are just a few examples of the questions being generated already!  A few girls are making their own bucketfiller play that they want to present to the class when they are done.

It has been a wonderful start to our year together.

Mrs. Didyk 🙂

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