For our first Life Skills lesson in all grades, we are learning about being bucket-fillers! We are reading the book Have You Filled A Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. The basic idea is that everyone in the world has an invisible bucket, and our buckets hold our good thoughts and good feelings about ourselves. When we talk about "filling people's buckets," we mean saying and doing things to help others feel special, important, and loved. Bucket-dipping is the opposite: saying and doing unkind things that make others feel un-special or unimportant. The lessons will encourage students to think of ways that they can be bucket-fillers for classmates, parents, siblings, teachers, and other people in their lives.
From October 12th through the 16th, the whole school will celebrate Bucket-Filling Week. I will send home a page of two buckets with each student, and they will be asked to make a special effort to say and do caring things for the week. Students and family members can document their kind deeds on the paper buckets, then bring them back to school. We will hang them in the hallways so everyone can take note of our caring acts!
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