Have You Filled a Bucket Today?

Before winter break, we read a story called "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?"  It is a fabulous book about how each one of us carries around an invisible bucket.  In this bucket is where we keep all our good feelings about ourselves.  With our words and our actions, we can either fill each others buckets or dip each other's buckets.

After we read the story, we made our own paper buckets for our classroom.

These are no ordinary buckets!  We learned that sometimes it feels like we might be able to fill our own bucket by dipping into someone else's, but we always end up feeling like our bucket is empty after we dip someone else's.  The good news, though, is that when we fill someone else's bucket, we also fill our own!  Try it sometime.  Invite someone to join your group, do something nice for someone, or tell someone you love them.  I bet your bucket will be feeling full before you know it!

We wrote letters to each other to fill our classmate's buckets (and our own)!  

Our buckets are over-flowing!  Have you filled a bucket today?