Promoting Bucket Filling in Your Classroom

Such an important thing to do....

A great visual for students:
Showing that unkind words cannot be unsaid or undone.

Link to more information

 



The book we use in my classroom:

 

Amazon link

Have You Filled A Bucket Today?    Video

 

 

A global book:

Amazon link

 

 

Bucket Filler videos:

 

Fill Your Bucket - Children's Song by The Learning Station

 

 

 

How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids

A Bucket Filling Moment

 

 

Bucket Filler Forms

 

Our Daily Bucket Filler Jar    - My students make requests to use this!  I like to choose a new card each week.

 

My favorite one:

 

 

Snowman Bucket Fillers  by Alisha Sanders

 

 

Bucket Filler Compliments



 

 

 

 



Word Work......Getting it organized!

The Word Work bookshelf can be a little like shopping at Target.  You go there intending to make it a short trip..... then you soon find yourself distracted by all of the neat things to look at!  To help students avoid this problem, I have created two Word Work binders.  (possibly will make more later) They just grab one and go!   

More ideas and links are on my previous post on Word Work. 

Binders include:
Pocket pouch that has dry erase markers and one foam die
Word Work Roll / Create 
Scrabble Spelling Addition
Rainbow Roll-N-Write 
iPad Spelling
Alphabet stencils - from Amazon
Spelling Task Cards - (I used page two.) 
See the previous Word Work post for the following links:
Boggle
Sign Language
How Much is Your Word Worth? differentiated - 2 different levels

 

The Best Part of Me...... Opinion Writing

This is one of my favorite ideas for opinion writing (besides taste testing Oreos!).  I found it while searching Pinterest for opinion writing ideas.  My class really enjoyed reading poems written by students from Durham, North Carolina.  Great inspiration for opinion writing!

Book link - The Best Part of Me by Wendy Ewald

 

Three examples from my class:

 

 

 



Scholastic's ideas about this topic

Number of the Day

Here's something we use all year long.  Students use this activity for morning work two to three times a week.   You can use the actual school day number or a higher number to make it more challenging.  Students create a number web in their math journal to show all 15 ways to show the number. 
Other ideas:  Roman numerals, 10 more / 10 less, number sentences, tally marks, pictures, temperature (decide if the number would be cold, warm, hot)

Charts are from the dollar section at Target.

Number of the Day poster

Opinion / Persuasive Writing Resources

.... Our writing focus for the second nine weeks

Sentence Starters anchor chart - link

 

 

Opinion Words Vocabulary Chart    by: Janiel Wagstaff

 



 

 

Great example of giving reasons:  My dad is an alien video

 

 

 

Common Core Opinion Writing Organizers   by:  teach4real

 

 

Opinion Writing with Oreo Cookies by First Grade Fanatic! blog   

 

OREO Writing Graphic Organizer

 

Mentor text - Duck! Rabbit!    resource link

 

book link

 

Oceans of 1st Grade Fun blog

 

What If You Had Animal Teeth? resource on TpT (not free)

 

Mentor text:  Spoon

 

First Grade Buddies Blog - free resource for Spoon

 

 

 

Mentor text:  Cats vs. Dogs

 

Pitner's Potpourri blog - resource for Cats vs. Dogs

 

 

 

More Mentor Texts:

 

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Frankenstein Math Craftivity

 

 

It was a lot of fun seeing students use their creativity to create a Frankenstein, Frankie, or Frankenstein Jr.!  A few Frankensteins on Pinterest as well as a co-worker's craftivity gave me the inspiration for this project. Students added a subtraction story and wrote the related addition fact. 

Alternative ideas - Stories, poems, other math problems

Narrative Writing Resources

A great way to start: 

  What is Narrative Writing? - posters by Jodi Southard

 

 

Narrative Writing Graphic Organizers

 

Graphic Organizers - BME

Fall Senses Graphic Organizer

Somebody Wanted But So Then

Writing Graphic Organizers Grades K-3

 

Narrative Prompts by Angelica Sandoval that your students will really enjoy:

(I let my students choose between two narrative prompts.)

    Link 

 

 

A prompt second graders love to talk about:  "A Time I Got Hurt" 

- Good for teaching sequential order

- Be sure to add a fun Band-Aid!

 

The Grouchy Ladybug Narrative Writing 

 

My Life as a Gingerbread Cookie Writing Prompt

 

Writing Checklist







Important Book Writing Activity - I like how this writing activity has a link to literature.  You will need The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown.  Students interview a friend and write a paragraph about them.  Just like the book, they include the most important thing about their friend. 

  Book Link

 

My students' Important Book writing activity:

 



 

Other Literature Links

Rocket Writes a Story

 

  Arthur Writes a Story

 

The Best Story

 

Little Red Writing

A hilarious and exuberant retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, in which a brave, little red pencil finds her way through the many perils of writing a story, faces a ravenous pencil sharpener (the Wolf 3000)... and saves the day.

 

Just the Facts