We Are Bucket Fillers!!

We have learned about how to be bucket fillers. Bucket filling is a term that we use when we are talking about being kind and respectful to others. We read the book Have You Filled A Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud.

We also extended our lessons with the book How Full Is Your Bucket? for Kids by Tom Rath

I challenge the students to use the lessons we have learned from these two books each day in and out of school. We discussed how filling someone's bucket by being a good friend, daughter, son, student will also fill their own bucket. I can already tell you that your children are FABULOUS bucket fillers!!

This will be a daily practice throughout the year to make us better friends, classmates, students (and teachers), and citizens in our own community. Each Monday as the kids enter they will draw a classmate's name from our classroom bucket and that person will be your child's bucket buddy for the week. Each student will need to make sure that the person's name that was drawn has their bucket filled each day--by helping, using kind words, writing a bucket note for their personal bucket in the classroom, and just being a great friend!