Bucket filling is a method we are using in our classroom to encourage our students to consider how their words and actions affect others.
We believe that the bucket-fillers system will help:
- to create more rewarding lives and positive culture as we increase kindness, respect, and courtesy.
- to decrease mean-spiritedness and negativity
- to teach us how to keep your bucket filled by understanding and rising above occasional bucket-dipping situations.
We introduced this amazing concept to our students today by listening to the story:
How full is your bucket? For kids by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer
We made checklists in our journals of these two concept also, we signed a pledge and we sang our chant:
We also made our ID’s that show we are Official Members of the Bucket Filling Brigade!
We have our little buckets in the classroom and whenever we see a classmate filling someone’s "imaginary" bucket we will make sure we write that action down and place it in the student’s bucket!
Bucket filling has made a huge difference in many classrooms around the world.
We want to make a difference in our classrooms and in our communities as well!
