HOMESTEAD BUCKET FILLERS
Overflowing Buckets
Dear Homestead Parents,
Welcome to our first newsletter of the year! Over the past four months, our Homestead family has been working on many different projects in the service of others. Our goal for this year is to use a growth mindset to do more than fill buckets and to overflow them! Please see below with pride, how your children have achieved this!
Sincerely,
Dr. Suzanne Viscovich
Principal
Pricnipals' Bucket Filler Read Aloud Every September, Dr. Viscovich sets the tone for Bucket Filling in Homestead School by reading one of Carol McLoud's books on How to Be a Bucket Filler to each class. | Class Bucket Filler Books As a follow-up to the principal's Read Aloud, each class writes their own book on How to Be a Bucket Filler. Every child's unique idea is read on the morning announcements' each day to reinforce the concept of how to be a bucket filler each and every day throughout the school. | Unity Day Social Worker Mrs. Martinez read Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld to each class on Unity Day. Throughout the read aloud, she reinforced how to be a good friend, and students created friendship headbands. |
Pricnipals' Bucket Filler Read Aloud
Every September, Dr. Viscovich sets the tone for Bucket Filling in Homestead School by reading one of Carol McLoud's books on How to Be a Bucket Filler to each class.
Class Bucket Filler Books
As a follow-up to the principal's Read Aloud, each class writes their own book on How to Be a Bucket Filler. Every child's unique idea is read on the morning announcements' each day to reinforce the concept of how to be a bucket filler each and every day throughout the school.
Hurricane Harvey Collection Homestead Faculty and Staff collected food and paper item necessities for those affected by the hurricane in Texas. | Halloween Costume Drive Homestead Families generously donated new/used Halloween costumes for families in need in Suffolk County. | Coat Drive Homestead Families generously donated new/used coats to families in need at Blanca's House. |
Hurricane Harvey Collection
Homestead Faculty and Staff collected food and paper item necessities for those affected by the hurricane in Texas.
Halloween Costume Drive
Homestead Families generously donated new/used Halloween costumes for families in need in Suffolk County.
First-grade Thanks-giving Service Learning Project First-grade students earned money doing chores around their house to put towards items needed by hurricane victims in Puerto Rico. First-grade parents were instrumental in bringing this to fruition. | Platt-deutsche Retirement Home Visit Every December and May, we bring Homestead students to sing to the elderly residents of the Plattdeutsche. The smiles the children bring to the residents are the epitome of bucket filling-our hearts are filled by filling theirs! | Toys for Tots Drive Every year, Homestead faculty and families overflow with generosity to children in need during the holiday season, donating toys to them. |
First-grade Thanks-giving Service Learning Project
First-grade students earned money doing chores around their house to put towards items needed by hurricane victims in Puerto Rico. First-grade parents were instrumental in bringing this to fruition.
Platt-deutsche Retirement Home Visit
Every December and May, we bring Homestead students to sing to the elderly residents of the Plattdeutsche. The smiles the children bring to the residents are the epitome of bucket filling-our hearts are filled by filling theirs!