During the month of February we will be focusing on "compassion." Compassion is an VERB, it's an action we take. Through many different read alouds we have noticed that when we do compassionate things, it creates a "ripple effect." Kid president says, "One person is filled with love and then they have to live it out so they do something awesome then the next person is filled with love and they do something awesome. It just goes on and on and on. They next thing you know, the whole world is awesome!" Such a great message and way to build community of AWESOME at QAE. | |
When I think about compassion, I can't help but think about the book, "Have you filled a bucket today." Many of us know this book, our kids may have done activities around this book, and we have even already read this book in class. But, our class came alive with act of compassion on Friday through the story of this book. I read the story aloud again earlier in the week and we decided to start taking action and being bucket fillers all week long! We came up with ideas for what we could do to fill each other's buckets.
We came up with:
- giving compliments
- smiling
- hugging
- asking friends to play
- giving "thank you" notes
- solving problems with friends.
Every time we filled someones bucket, we put a sticker on our class bucket filler chart. For the whole month, we are going to watch our stickers grow and see how it changes the way we feel about ourselves and each other! At the end of the month we are going to count all of our stickers and see how many acts of compassion we did!
We came up with:
- giving compliments
- smiling
- hugging
- asking friends to play
- giving "thank you" notes
- solving problems with friends.
Every time we filled someones bucket, we put a sticker on our class bucket filler chart. For the whole month, we are going to watch our stickers grow and see how it changes the way we feel about ourselves and each other! At the end of the month we are going to count all of our stickers and see how many acts of compassion we did!