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Be a Bucket Filler!
As part of Madison Primary's Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Program (PBIS), we continue to incorporate bucket-filling behavior in our school to emphasize the importance of being kind, caring, and respectful to others. This program is based around the book Have You Filled a Bucket Today? written by Carol McCloud. Bucket filling is an easy-to-understand concept: Everyone carries an 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.
Children quickly understand that they can fill buckets when they do and say things that are nice and friendly. They also learn that when they say or do things that are not kind or caring, they dip into buckets and remove those good feelings. Children understand that actions and words can either fill a bucket or dip into it.
We are always encouraging, reminding and recognizing everyone’s efforts to be a bucket-filler at school, at home and everywhere they go. When children are “caught” acting like a bucket filler, they may earn a bucket slip to put in their classroom bucket. Once every two weeks our school gets together to celebrate positive behaviors by emptying the classroom bucket into the school community bucket and then random slips will be drawn to celebrate kindness. Please ask your child about what they can do and say to be a bucket-filler today!
Listen to the author Carol McCloud read her story.
The Learning Station Sings
Bucket Filling Song
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