Bucket-Filling Week is March 19-23

The week immediately after Spring Break is Bucket-Filling Week at TPS! Usually we hold this event in the fall, but we were super busy with that big statewide reading initiative then, so we postponed until spring this year. We hope this will help combat "spring fever" among students, and kick off the last couple of months in a positive way!

Look for a parent letter and a sheet of two buckets to come home in your child's backpack today or tomorrow. The letter contains 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.

To celebrate Bucket-Filling Week, we are asking students to make a special effort to say and do nice, friendly, respectful things for others. You can help by talking with your child about kind words and actions and brainstorming some small acts for him or her to do during Spring Break or 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 March 19-23 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 Parent Pockets right outside my office, or please let me know to send a few home with your child. Thank you very much for your support of one of our last character education initiatives this year! Your help is what makes this week meaningful and successful!