Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Kid’s Guide to Daily Happiness, by Carol McCloud, is a wonderful book that teaches us that we are in charge of our own happiness and that we have the ability to choose to be happy or not based on our choices and way of looking at things.
The idea of the book is that everyone carries an invisible bucket which holds our good thoughts and feelings about ourselves. “Everyone” includes students, adults, volunteers, parents and all school staff members on campus. We need others to fill our buckets by doing or saying things that make us feel good or special. When we do these things (bucket filling), we can also fill our own buckets. Bucket filling can be as simple as a “hi” and a smile, inviting someone to play, standing up for someone, or saying or writing a positive note. If we do things that are mean or hurtful to others we are dipping from their buckets and, in turn, are not filling our own either. Our goal is to make our classroom a GREAT place to be, where everyone works to be respectful and encouraging to each other. This goes right along with our goal of teaching and following the HAWKS guidelines.
In the Gateway room is a special bucket. Everyone is invited to write notes, called Bucket Fillers, to friends, classmates, teachers, and staff members. The note can describe a quality admired about that person, offer encouragement, or simply state a compliment. The notes are placed in the bucket. These “drops in our bucket” notes are then read in class or given to the special person as a way to fill up his/her bucket.
The idea of the book is that everyone carries an invisible bucket which holds our good thoughts and feelings about ourselves. “Everyone” includes students, adults, volunteers, parents and all school staff members on campus. We need others to fill our buckets by doing or saying things that make us feel good or special. When we do these things (bucket filling), we can also fill our own buckets. Bucket filling can be as simple as a “hi” and a smile, inviting someone to play, standing up for someone, or saying or writing a positive note. If we do things that are mean or hurtful to others we are dipping from their buckets and, in turn, are not filling our own either. Our goal is to make our classroom a GREAT place to be, where everyone works to be respectful and encouraging to each other. This goes right along with our goal of teaching and following the HAWKS guidelines.
In the Gateway room is a special bucket. Everyone is invited to write notes, called Bucket Fillers, to friends, classmates, teachers, and staff members. The note can describe a quality admired about that person, offer encouragement, or simply state a compliment. The notes are placed in the bucket. These “drops in our bucket” notes are then read in class or given to the special person as a way to fill up his/her bucket.
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