During February we celebrate the many friendships in our lives. These wonderful songs from The Learning Station are all about celebrating friendships including with animals. Your students will enjoy listening to them on Valentine's Day as well.
"Fill Your Bucket" is my all time favorite song from The Learning Station. It goes so great with the books "Have You Filled A Bucket Today", "How Full Is Your Bucket - For Kids", "Fill A Bucket: A Guide To Daily Happiness For Young Children", "Bucket Filling From A to Z: The Key To Being Happy".
Check out the links before for more friendship and Valentine's Day songs from The Learning Station.
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Monday, October 8, 2012
Bucket Filling Freebie!
Those of you who follow me know how much I preach about being kind to others. We should do what we can to make others feel good and teach that to our students. That can be as simple as smiling, opening a door for someone, giving a hi five or giving someone a hug.
As many of you know I'm a huge fan of the books "Have You Filled A Bucket Today" by Carol McCloud and "How Full Is Your Bucket for Kids" by Tom Rath. You search bucket filling to find my previous posts on the topic.
Today, I would like to share a freebie that I made to go with the book. It is a word sort on bucket filling and bucket dipper.
Do you use the bucket filling system in your classroom? How do you use it?
Stop by tomorrow for another freebie.
Thanks for hoppin' by Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings. Keep on smiling!
As many of you know I'm a huge fan of the books "Have You Filled A Bucket Today" by Carol McCloud and "How Full Is Your Bucket for Kids" by Tom Rath. You search bucket filling to find my previous posts on the topic.
Today, I would like to share a freebie that I made to go with the book. It is a word sort on bucket filling and bucket dipper.
Do you use the bucket filling system in your classroom? How do you use it?
Stop by tomorrow for another freebie.
Thanks for hoppin' by Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings. Keep on smiling!
Friday, April 20, 2012
Positive Fridays - Week of April 16th, 2012
Wow, wow, wow I had the best week ever!!!!!!!!!!
- Last Friday I had such a good time with Kindergarten at a school that I had only been to once before. I got to do a fun lesson from a blogging friend Deanna Jump and saw the other kids I had subbed for before way back in January. Many came to say hi and I got a few hugs.
- Monday, I volunteered to proctor FCAT, which was a great learning experience at the school that I am just in love with. It was nice to be thanked for coming in just to do that! I was also interviewed for a short term job teaching 5th grade.
- Tuesday through Friday I subbed in a 5th/6th grade combined class in my favorite school. Boy am I getting experience in combined classes! 5th grade had FCAT so I had just 6th grade for a good chunk of the morning and the afternoon went by so fast with lunch, activity for 6th grade, and recess. 5th grade had fun on the computer in the afternoon and I got to take 6th grade outside to do their work in the morning so we didn't disturb FCAT. Most of them loved going outside to work. The weather was so nice.
- Wednesday I was hired to teach 5th grade starting Monday until the end of the school year and told that they want me next year, but they are waiting to see teacher allocation units. I cannot wait to get to know these amazing 5th graders and have the fun with them that I had with Kindergarten, 1st grade, 3rd/4th and other classes! I told the 3rd and 4th graders keep working hard and being nice to others, good things come to good people and I proved that by landing a job where I wanted!!! Those wonderful students also helped me appreciate and love teaching older children. Thank you 3rd and 4th grade, I love you!
- The 3rd and 4th graders also got my Crack The FCAT eggs, which had chocolate and a peppermint inside as well as a personalized note to each child. They were able to see again how much I enjoyed each one of them and why each of them are so special to me. They also received letters from the 1st graders and a few from my myself to do a great job on FCAT. Finally, I gave them a treat bag filled with goodies and FCAT sayings. Some sayings: Smarties because you are such a smartie, A starburst because you are a star, an Eraser to erase your mistakes, etc. I will do a separate blog post on this hopefully this weekend and give everyone the freebie in case anyone wants to use it!
These kids filled my bucket as most of the 3rd graders wrote me thank you letters and all the 3rd and 4th graders had such big smiles on their faces and thanked me when they saw me. They were also so excited for me getting the job. Due to different lunch schedules I won't see them as much, but I know they will continue to soar and do well!
I also saw the amazing Kindergarten children Tuesday and Thursday (and will Friday too) and got hugs, I Love You's, congrats on the job, and smiles!
The children at this school and many other schools I've subbed at fill buckets with kindness every single day. Have you filled anyone's bucket with kindness? How will you do so today and next week?
- In blogger news, wow 42,000 views, you guys and gals are amazing!
Please share positive experiences with me from the past week. Thanks for hoppin' by Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings. I love each and everyone of you for stopping by.
- Last Friday I had such a good time with Kindergarten at a school that I had only been to once before. I got to do a fun lesson from a blogging friend Deanna Jump and saw the other kids I had subbed for before way back in January. Many came to say hi and I got a few hugs.
- Monday, I volunteered to proctor FCAT, which was a great learning experience at the school that I am just in love with. It was nice to be thanked for coming in just to do that! I was also interviewed for a short term job teaching 5th grade.
- Tuesday through Friday I subbed in a 5th/6th grade combined class in my favorite school. Boy am I getting experience in combined classes! 5th grade had FCAT so I had just 6th grade for a good chunk of the morning and the afternoon went by so fast with lunch, activity for 6th grade, and recess. 5th grade had fun on the computer in the afternoon and I got to take 6th grade outside to do their work in the morning so we didn't disturb FCAT. Most of them loved going outside to work. The weather was so nice.
- Wednesday I was hired to teach 5th grade starting Monday until the end of the school year and told that they want me next year, but they are waiting to see teacher allocation units. I cannot wait to get to know these amazing 5th graders and have the fun with them that I had with Kindergarten, 1st grade, 3rd/4th and other classes! I told the 3rd and 4th graders keep working hard and being nice to others, good things come to good people and I proved that by landing a job where I wanted!!! Those wonderful students also helped me appreciate and love teaching older children. Thank you 3rd and 4th grade, I love you!
- The 3rd and 4th graders also got my Crack The FCAT eggs, which had chocolate and a peppermint inside as well as a personalized note to each child. They were able to see again how much I enjoyed each one of them and why each of them are so special to me. They also received letters from the 1st graders and a few from my myself to do a great job on FCAT. Finally, I gave them a treat bag filled with goodies and FCAT sayings. Some sayings: Smarties because you are such a smartie, A starburst because you are a star, an Eraser to erase your mistakes, etc. I will do a separate blog post on this hopefully this weekend and give everyone the freebie in case anyone wants to use it!
These kids filled my bucket as most of the 3rd graders wrote me thank you letters and all the 3rd and 4th graders had such big smiles on their faces and thanked me when they saw me. They were also so excited for me getting the job. Due to different lunch schedules I won't see them as much, but I know they will continue to soar and do well!
I also saw the amazing Kindergarten children Tuesday and Thursday (and will Friday too) and got hugs, I Love You's, congrats on the job, and smiles!
The children at this school and many other schools I've subbed at fill buckets with kindness every single day. Have you filled anyone's bucket with kindness? How will you do so today and next week?
- In blogger news, wow 42,000 views, you guys and gals are amazing!
Please share positive experiences with me from the past week. Thanks for hoppin' by Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings. I love each and everyone of you for stopping by.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
#1 Kids Best Songs - Learning Station CD Giveaway
Are you ready for another Giveaway? The Learning Station has agreed to giveaway another great CD. This one is called #1 Best Kid's Songs.
First, I'll give my take on the CD. Opinions are of my own only! The CD includes lyrics and instruction on how to get your kids moving! I completely believe that children need to be up and moving and if they are up and moving for part of the day there is less of a chance of disruptions!
The CD starts with a great song that I think is perfect to start any school day called "Make New Friends." It's a great song that teaches children to make new friends while still keeping their old friends!
Make New Friends Video
Song #2 is called "Nursery Rhyme Dance" and is a song that includes many nursery rhymes in a fun upbeat song that will get your children pretending to play different musical instruments! Check out the video by clicking the link.
Nursery Rhyme Dance
Song #3 is called "Boom Chicka Boom." This would be a fun song to do with the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. You can check out the video for the song here:
Boom Chicka Boom
Song #4 "I Love The Mountains" is a perfect song to tie into Social Studies when children are learning about mountains, hills, forests, and oceans! It has such catchy words that children will love to sing it and act out the hand motions, which are included in the lyrics!
Another of my favorites on the CD is song #8 as it was one of my favorites as a child called "Day O' Time To Go Home." This is a perfect song to end your day with your class. They will leave your class with a big smile on their face!
Song #12 is probably my favorite children's song of all time thanks to the Learning Station putting together this great song that goes with such a good book. The song is called "Fill Your Bucket." The song reminds children and adults to fill your imaginary bucket and others with kindness. Some ways to be kind including helping someone, doing something unexpected to make someone smile, smiling, and of course holding hands! If you missed the video on my previous post please click here to read more about it!
Song #13 "Rockin' My Hips" has the children dancing and moving different body parts. What a great way to get them to move and get their wiggles out. The song is so catchy they will be singing it all day long! This is probably my favorite uptempo song on the CD!
Click the links for some other great videos from songs on the CD: Fred The Moose Be Kind To Your Web Footed Friends Go Bananas Wishy Washy Washer Woman Baby Shark Song
Now who is ready to win this great CD? Head to the Rafflecopter to enter. You must follow my blog to receive an entry. You can also learn entries by following The Learning Station on FB, following me on FB, following my TPT store, and sharing the contest on FB, Twitter, your blog, pinterest, etc. Contest starts at midnight on Friday and ends at midnight on Thursday!
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Friday, April 6, 2012
Positive Fridays - April 2nd, 2012
Wow, I have a lot of great positives to cover for this week. whohohoooooooo! I hope you have a bunch to share with me too!
- So Saturday, Hoppin' Hopkins ran the bounce house because well I "hop." I was also persuaded to get into the dunk tank by the hi-five coordinator who said he had teachers donate money to get me that was going for the kids. That made it super hard to turn down so I did that in Titusville at Family Fun Fest at Fox Lake Park. It was all children who threw the balls to try to dunk me and most of them were really really ones. After the first couple of dunks I ended up enjoying every minute of it! Here are a couple of pictures of the fun I had!
I was told I was the hit of the Family Fun Fest as children were talking about dunking me all day and continued talking about dunking me at school. That meant the world to me that I made the children so happy!
- I got called in to sub in 2nd grade on Monday at one of my favorite schools. Like I said in my last post it is rare that I get to sub in 2nd grade so it's so awesome to do 2 school days in a row! The children were absolutely spectacular. They listened so well, worked hard, and made me so proud. They told me they want me to sub for them again!
- Tuesday, I was back at what is now my favorite school and the principal gave me a letter of recommendation to help me find a job! She said so many things that made me smile especially that she would not hesitate to offer me a job if she had one available! She also noted that my personality makes everyone smile among other great things. The 1st graders were also very kind and made the day fun!
- Wednesday, I got called in to teach Kindergarten at the school I was at on Monday! I had this class back before Winter Break so it was awesome to see them again. The day began with a boy crying as his mother brought him. I remembered he had dunked me twice so I brought that up and boy did he grin and stopped crying instantly. He ended up being so sweet to me all day! I know I touched his life! We had so much fun playing Reading games! They are a great group of children. One Kindergarten child made me smile when she called me cute, smiled the biggest grin, and gave me a hug. It's the little things in life that matter! She filled my bucket! This has never happened before!
- Thursday, I had a blast with 1st grade back at the school I was at on Tuesday. My day started seeing two excited 3rd graders. Their smiles are just contagious! They know how to fill my bucket! The first graders were excited to have me and said so many nice things to me. They helped me deliver plastic eggs to the 3rd/4th graders that said "Crack The FCAT." I filled them with candy and an individualized note to each child to let them each know how amazing each one is. I know I filled each of their buckets. Of course I gave the first graders eggs too. No note because I don't know them as well as the 3rd/4th graders and they aren't taking FCAT. The 1st graders were also so sweet and helped make some special for the 3rd/4th graders for next week. You'll have to read next week's Positive Friday to find out what we did for them! In the event they get on with their parents, I don't want them to know yet. haha I ended the day seeing 3 3rd graders who had huge grins on their faces and were so happy to get the egg from me with the nice note!
- No school today due to Good Friday, but I have a busy week already lined up for next week including 3 days in a row in 5th grade at the school I was at on Tuesday and Thursday so I am so very excited!
Don't forget to share your positives from the week and try to fill as many buckets a day as you can!
- So Saturday, Hoppin' Hopkins ran the bounce house because well I "hop." I was also persuaded to get into the dunk tank by the hi-five coordinator who said he had teachers donate money to get me that was going for the kids. That made it super hard to turn down so I did that in Titusville at Family Fun Fest at Fox Lake Park. It was all children who threw the balls to try to dunk me and most of them were really really ones. After the first couple of dunks I ended up enjoying every minute of it! Here are a couple of pictures of the fun I had!
I was told I was the hit of the Family Fun Fest as children were talking about dunking me all day and continued talking about dunking me at school. That meant the world to me that I made the children so happy!
- I got called in to sub in 2nd grade on Monday at one of my favorite schools. Like I said in my last post it is rare that I get to sub in 2nd grade so it's so awesome to do 2 school days in a row! The children were absolutely spectacular. They listened so well, worked hard, and made me so proud. They told me they want me to sub for them again!
- Tuesday, I was back at what is now my favorite school and the principal gave me a letter of recommendation to help me find a job! She said so many things that made me smile especially that she would not hesitate to offer me a job if she had one available! She also noted that my personality makes everyone smile among other great things. The 1st graders were also very kind and made the day fun!
- Wednesday, I got called in to teach Kindergarten at the school I was at on Monday! I had this class back before Winter Break so it was awesome to see them again. The day began with a boy crying as his mother brought him. I remembered he had dunked me twice so I brought that up and boy did he grin and stopped crying instantly. He ended up being so sweet to me all day! I know I touched his life! We had so much fun playing Reading games! They are a great group of children. One Kindergarten child made me smile when she called me cute, smiled the biggest grin, and gave me a hug. It's the little things in life that matter! She filled my bucket! This has never happened before!
- Thursday, I had a blast with 1st grade back at the school I was at on Tuesday. My day started seeing two excited 3rd graders. Their smiles are just contagious! They know how to fill my bucket! The first graders were excited to have me and said so many nice things to me. They helped me deliver plastic eggs to the 3rd/4th graders that said "Crack The FCAT." I filled them with candy and an individualized note to each child to let them each know how amazing each one is. I know I filled each of their buckets. Of course I gave the first graders eggs too. No note because I don't know them as well as the 3rd/4th graders and they aren't taking FCAT. The 1st graders were also so sweet and helped make some special for the 3rd/4th graders for next week. You'll have to read next week's Positive Friday to find out what we did for them! In the event they get on with their parents, I don't want them to know yet. haha I ended the day seeing 3 3rd graders who had huge grins on their faces and were so happy to get the egg from me with the nice note!
- No school today due to Good Friday, but I have a busy week already lined up for next week including 3 days in a row in 5th grade at the school I was at on Tuesday and Thursday so I am so very excited!
Don't forget to share your positives from the week and try to fill as many buckets a day as you can!
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Fill Your Bucket
This summer when I started checking out teacher blogs I kept reading about this amazing book called "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?" It's a great book about doing kind things such as helping someone, smiling at someone, holding their hand, hugging them, and just doing really nice things. While subbing a teacher even had me read the book to the 1st graders and had them draw pictures of how they would fill their bucket and others buckets. I went in another classroom where the teacher had it set up where children could write nice things to each other and put it in their pretend bucket (a pocket chart with their names on it). Click on the book to check it out from Amazon!
Then I got this amazing CD from The Learning Station. It's called #1 Best Kids Songs. I will be giving this away at some point!!! On this CD was an amazing song called "Fill Your Bucket." It has the same great message as the book and it puts the book's great story into a fun song. I loved the song so much that I contacted The Learning Station on FB and I asked them if they could make a video for it. Guess what they agreed to do just that all because of me! Wow, they are amazing! You can see the video for the song right here:
Please head on over to The Learning Station's FB page and thank them for putting this great book into a song and video! Have you filled someone's bucket today by filling your own? Please share with me how you did it! I told a child how proud I was of her for having All A's and 1 B on her report card and told many others how much I loved subbing for them!
Then I got this amazing CD from The Learning Station. It's called #1 Best Kids Songs. I will be giving this away at some point!!! On this CD was an amazing song called "Fill Your Bucket." It has the same great message as the book and it puts the book's great story into a fun song. I loved the song so much that I contacted The Learning Station on FB and I asked them if they could make a video for it. Guess what they agreed to do just that all because of me! Wow, they are amazing! You can see the video for the song right here:
Please head on over to The Learning Station's FB page and thank them for putting this great book into a song and video! Have you filled someone's bucket today by filling your own? Please share with me how you did it! I told a child how proud I was of her for having All A's and 1 B on her report card and told many others how much I loved subbing for them!
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