Busy Being Bucketfillers!

On Monday, we had a very special visitor, Mrs. Hansbury! Mrs. Hansbury is the guidance counselor at our school. Once a month, she will come into our room and teach us a lesson about being a good friend and making good choices. This month, she shared a story called Have You Filled A Bucket Today? We learned that everyone carries an invisible bucket that holds our thoughts and feelings. When you say or do nice things for others, you fill their bucket and your bucket too. When you are a bucket filler, you make yourself and others around you happy. However, when you say or do mean things, you dip not only your own bucket, but someone else's as well. Mrs. Hansbury encouraged all of us to be bucket fillers. After the story, kinders shared ways they could be bucket fillers.

We spent this week learning/reviewing our colors. We read A LOT of color books including Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes and Elmer (two of our favorites).


During shared reading, we practiced one-to-one correspondence while reading our color mini books.

Check out Abigail pointing to each words as she reads.

Kayleigh coloring each circle to match the color word.

Aubrey working at our fine motor center lacing her letters!


Last year during circle time, I decided to try out calendar journals to make my kinders accountable for their own learning. I really liked using them and so did the kids, so I decided to bring them back this year. So far, so good :)

We use our calendar journals everyday to practice:
1. Number formation/writing
2. Identifying numbers
3. Tally marks
4. Graphing

Ryan practicing writing his numbers.