IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

We had quite the productive and exciting day today!  We continued to discuss being a bucket filler to each other and those around us today.  Every single child said they were a bucket filler so that is exciting to hear!  I also heard throughout the day many compliments going around which I praised the children for and told them that they were really showing that they were bucket fillers.  DeOnna and Selam said, “We are going to be bucket fillers everyday!”  I gave each person a flower that I made for them on Wednesday, and they are currently sitting in a vase at school.  Tomorrow we are going to finish up our buckets and then aim for each friend having a flower from another friend in their bucket.  Then, they will come home with their flower!  The buckets will stay at school so that we can continue to explore and build on friendship, respect, and kindness.

I opened the watercolor paints today in our classroom for the first time, and boy was that a hit!!  The mini studio table was filled the entire time with the kiddos painting and chatting…it was very fun to see their creative and social sides at work!

Sydney, Shaniyia, and Cha’kyra the last week or so have been building hotels in the block area so I put up some pictures of hotels near their structure (where they put a sign that read “Please do not touch.”), and then some other friends decided to build another hotel next to the previous structure.  There was some good conversation about hotels so this might be an area worth exploring more.

Today, after we did some problem solving in Math Workshop, I pulled out pattern blocks and pattern sheets for them to make pictures with the pattern blocks.  Woah, I was so impressed with how hardworking and excited they were to do these pattern block pictures!  I had so many kiddos asking for more and more pictures!

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