Building Community In Our Classroom!

We have started building community in our classroom.  I read Have You Filled A Bucket: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids by Carol McCloud.  We have our buckets and our bucket filler slips.  During morning meeting on Monday we pulled names for a secret pal.  Each student has to make sure to fill their secret pals buckets by doing nice things for them all week.  On Friday, students fill out a bucket filler, telling their secret pal something nice and they reveal themselves during the morning meeting.