Have You Filled A Bucket Today?

On the first day of school, we read the book Have You Filled A Bucket Today?  The short book explains to students that we all carry an invisible bucket in which we keep our feelings about ourselves. When our buckets are full, we are happy; when they are empty, we are sad. It is important that students learn that when they fill a friend's bucket, they also fill their own bucket because it feels good to make others happy. At this time, we also introduced the concept of being a bucket dipper. A bucket dipper is a person who hurts other people's feelings, essentially dipping into their invisible bucket.

 

And of course when given the chance to be silly, we always comply!

So...every day since that first day of school, we have been filling buckets and looking for ways to make someone else smile. Yesterday, our class bucket was filled to the brim. Believe it or not there wasn't any room left for even one more single kind action. So we dumped our bucket (so that we could start over of course) and  celebrated today by visiting Ms. Young's 1st grade class room. We spent a little time listening to some wonderful 1st graders read, as well as reading to them. 

We decided the best way to celebrate our overflowing bucket of good deeds was by going out and finding another way to fill a bucket- and we did just that! There were smiles all around and lots of high fives were shared!  So be ready to ask your third grader, How did you fill a bucket today?