Durban Avenue School Fills Buckets!
Monthly Character Trait Program
The staff at Durban Avenue School is very excited to bring the concept of Bucket Filling to their students! The Bucket Filling theme, based on the book Have you Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud, is very easy for our young students to understand: Everyone carries and invisible bucket that holds our good thoughts and feelings. When our buckets are full, we feel happy and when our buckets are empty we feel sad. We want to fill buckets of happiness, and we don’t want to dip into buckets and take away good feelings.
Mrs. Lisa Osbun, program coordinator, will incorporate Bucket Filling into the existing Social/ Emotional Learning competencies at Durban Avenue School by focusing on a different character trait to fill buckets each month. Character education helps schools create a positive atmosphere in order for children to achieve success. It helps students practice and improve on social and emotional skills that will be used throughout a lifetime.
Each day begins with a character thought about how to fill a bucket, which will be shared in the morning announcements. The students try their best to follow the character thought for the day. September introduces the concept of Bucket Filling, followed by Filling Buckets with Respect in October. Citizenship, Responsibility, Caring, Fairness, and Trustworthiness are the other Bucket Filling traits that will be celebrated throughout the year. May and June will be the time to review how bucket filling made a difference! Students who go above and beyond to fill buckets will receive a certificate for showing great character at the end of each month. Join our students and staff by trying to fill someone’s bucket every day, and don’t forget to fill your own!
Month Trait
September Have You Filled a Bucket Today? Start with Hello Week
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
October Fill a Bucket with Respect Week of Respect, School Violence Awareness,
& Red Ribbon Weeks
November Fill a Bucket with Responsibility
December Fill a Bucket with Caring Adopt a Family Project/ PJ Collection
January Fill a Bucket with Fairness Great Kindness Challenge
February Fill a Bucket with Citizenship Random Acts of Kindness Week/ Souper Bowl/ 100 Day Collection
March Fill a Bucket with Trustworthiness Bucket Filling Poster Contest
April Decision Making
May Review of Bucket Filling
June How many Buckets have you filled this year?