Monday September 9th, 2013

Tuesday through Wednesday- September 3-4th

Today we read and discussed the "pot" article. Different people's
pots are filled with either positive or negative things. We also l
earned that people should fill each
others pots with positive things. After reading the "pot" a
rticle we started to craft our
 own buckets, relating to the pot article. On each
of our buckets we created them to
reflect our personality or special qualities.




Morgan crafting her Gamecock bucket 



Other creative buckets

Thursday- September 5th

Today we read two different pieces of writing that
relating to our bucket crafts. The first was
Have You Filled a Bucket Today? This was an
8 time awards winning children's book. This book
 is a cute way of teaching little kids how to
"fill someones bucket". This was a great book
to read in our class today for many reasons.
It taught us today that the little things in life
that you do for a person can fill someones
bucket. We also received our own buckets
filler slips to put in each others buckets to
give to each other anonymously.

 

Bucket fillers



Also we read another article called the

Self Esteem Fraud. This article was a real

eye opener to me. Many kids earn praise that

is undeserved. This is bad in many ways for

kids, because they will always believe that they

are right no matter what. We also had to choose

 one quote from the article that made us angry

or mad.

 

Friday- September 6th

 

Today we had a guest visitor, Greshan
Charlton, come to
speak to us about the
scholarships offered for teachers.
The Teaching Fellowship is
worth up to $24,000
(up to $6,000 per year) and
is forgiven by teaching in
a South Carolina public school
for each year funding is awarded.
We greatly appreciated her for
helping us learn about this great Fellowship
scholarship. Also we learned about
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

Mrs. Charlton

 “Education is the most powerful weapon

 which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela