The month of February we will celebrate Kindness and each class will learn about filling each other’s buckets. Talk to your students about kindness and what it looks like. We all carry invisible buckets daily that contains our feelings. When our buckets are full, we feel great and we fill other’s buckets by doing random acts of kindness or doing something nice for others. Try to fill a bucket every day!
Remind your students what bullying is as you talk about ways to be kind. Bullying is when you seek to harm or intimidate another.
When students use unkind words, being ugly or just mean that isn’t always bullying. We here at CMS Elementary take bullying serious and we follow a strict no bullying policy as shown in our handbook.
We will also talk about community helpers and future careers. While discussing this topic it will help students make a connection between their current selves and their future beyond high school.
Black History Month is also celebrated in February. It as an homage to the achievements of African Americans who have shaped American history. In 1915 historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans had the idea to celebrate African American achievements. This group chose the second week in February in 1926 to celebrate “Negro History Week.” This week is symbolic because it is the same week as the former president Abraham Lincoln and one of the most prominent abolitionist activist and an escaped slave, Frederick Douglass. The week involved into an entire month in the late 1960s as part of the civil rights movement.
Black History month fun fact: Garrett Morgan created the “safety hood” to help firefighters navigate smoky buildings, later modifying it to carry its own air supply— making it the world’s first effective gas masks. He also had the good sense to add a third position to the traffic signal — yes, there was a time when traffic signals just said indicated “stop” or “go” — an addition that further reduced automobile accidents.
Mrs. Lewis