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Pinterest Find :: Bucket Fillers vs. Bucket Dippers

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One of the things my school has done each year is read Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids,” by Carol McCloud to the younger grades. “Filling a Bucket,” not being a “Bucket Dipper,” and such are now common language across the grade levels and it has definitely helped kids to be able to separate friendly from unfriendly actions.

Which is why I was really excited to find a Bucket Filler vs. Bucket Dippers headers by 3rd Grade Thoughts and word sort by 1st Grade Fanatics on Pinterest. Often, I have students list examples of “Bucket Fillers” and “Bucket Dippers,” but having words to choose from would really help some of the younger students get started.

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The best part of both these products? They’re FREE!!  So go grab them while you can!

*Note* Photos in this post are from 3rd Grade Thoughts and 1st Grade Fanatics. They are not my own!

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New Product :: Social Superstar Game

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If you’re anything like me, you want to like a lot of the social skills games on the market, but you just can’t. Either the kids hate it, it’s way too deep and “therapy-y,” the board game looks like something out of the 70’s, or there’s no possible way you can finish it within 30 minutes, etc. etc. Yeah, you know those games. In fact, I have an entire office full of them that I never use!

On the other hand, social skills games could be really awesome! They don’t take a whole lot of planning, and the kids could have fun WHILE learning skills they need! Win-win, right?

Which is why I can’t tell you how unbelievably excited I am to finish this project!  I’ve been working on it for the last several weeks and am SO happy with how it turned out! First of all, it’s not made by some educational company who “thinks” they know our kids. I made it (and tested it with my kids), so I know they’ll enjoy it!

The music-themed (no singing required-don’t worry) game contains 150 cards (including some blank ones and decorative card backs) of the following types to teach social and pragmatic language skills in students with Autism, Cognitive Impairments, or other social skill deficits:

– Home Social Skills Questions

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– School Social Skills QuestionsScreen Shot 2013-04-13 at 9.55.57 AMScreen Shot 2013-04-13 at 9.56.13 AM

– Community Social Skills Questions

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– Communication Skills Questions

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– Conversation Acting Topic Cards

The game also includes a cute printable board game in color or black and white, 8 colored “record scorecards” for each player, and reward stars for the student’s scorecard. You can even download a preview before to see if it’ll work for your needs!

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It’s normally $9 at my TpT store, but for this week, it’ll be on sale! Grab it while you can 🙂

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Fun Freebie :: Encouraging Class Poster Set

Screen Shot 2013-04-07 at 8.53.25 PMLately, I’ve seen a lot of really colorful posters on Pinterest! Unfortunately, a lot of them are more “teacher-focused,” and not so counselor-y social worker-y psychologist-y special ed-y, so I made my own. Click the images above and pick them up for free!

Enjoy!