Bucket-Filling Week is next week!

Next week is Bucket-Filling Week at TPS! Please watch for a parent letter and a sheet of two buckets to come home in your child's backpack tomorrow, Thursday September 23. The letter will contain all the details you need to know about the week, but the basic idea is that it is an "acts of kindness" week based on the book we read in my first lesson with each class: Have You Filled A Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. Next week we are asking all students in the school to make a special effort to say and do kind things for others. You can help by talking with your child about kind words and actions and planning some nice things for him or her to do during Bucket-Filling Week. The kind deeds do not need to take place at school, they can be carried out in the neighborhood, at home, or anywhere! Students will write or draw the kind deeds they do on the paper buckets that are sent home, then bring them back to school during Bucket-Filling Week. We'll display the buckets up and down the hallways to celebrate our kindness. Please feel free to visit school next week and walk up and down the hallways to check out all the unique ways of filling other people's buckets!

If you'd like extra buckets for your child or for other family members to document their kind deeds, they will be available in the front office, or please let me know to send a few home with your child. Thank you very much for your support of our first character education initiative this year! Your help is what makes this week meaningful and successful!