Bucket of Light Activity
This works great as a Morning Meeting activity.
Materials:
1. The students' bucket filler buckets
2. One flashlight or LED light that fits inside a student's bucket.
3. Stars and hearts made out of light-weight and light-in-color paper.
Activity:
1. At the beginning of the week each student is given a heart or star and asked to think about what they might like to write to the student of the week. It could be as simple as"You are wonderful".
2. On Friday, the students meet standing in a circle with their buckets and the heart or star that they have filled in.
3. The student of the week goes to the center of the circle with her bucket that includes the flashlight in the on position. Start the song, "Cirlce of Light". Children sing along as the student of the week walks around the inside of the circle. As she walks by each student in the cirlce they drop the star or heart which they wrote their message on into the student of the week's bucket.
4. During the chorus, the student of the week stands in the center of the circle and slowly turns around while holding her bucket up to her face so the light shines on her face and everyone else in the circle can see.
5. For the next verse the student of the week walks around the circle again. As she reaches each child she holds the bucket of light up to his/her face to show that the circle of light is in all of us. She continues this until she comes to the student who is designated to be next week's student of the week. She will bring the new student of the week into the center of the circle. She will then place the flashlight into the bucket of the new student of the week.
6. During the chorus the new student of the week will slowly turn in the cirlce with the bucket up close to his face so the light shines on his face.
NOTE: the new student of the week can be chosen by the present student of the week or that student can find out from the teacher whom she should pick for the next week. If the student is choosing, he/she must be aware that they need to choose a student that has not been picked yet.
