Throughout the course of the school year your child will practice being a bucket filler! The concept of being a bucket filler comes from Carol McCloud’s book Have You Filled A Bucket Today? (See below) It stems around the idea that everyone carries around an invisible bucket that throughout the day is being filled by the kind things that you do for others or that others do for you. A bucket filler is someone who is showing positive character traits (kind, considerate, caring, respectful) and is being a responsible citizen. When our buckets are full, we feel happy and when our buckets are empty we feel sad. We will be practicing being a bucket filler in the classroom, and encourage students to be bucket fillers at home. You can help your students at being a bucket filler by discussing the concepts at home. You can praise your student at home when they do something that fills your bucket or someone else’s bucket.

With your help, I hope that we can create a positive, happy, bucket filling classroom!

Thank you!