Have You Filled a Bucket Today?

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This week, we read the book, "Have You Filled A Bucket Today? (A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids)" written by Carol McCloud.  This book shares the thought that everyone carries around an invisible bucket that contains our varied emotions and feelings.  When we are happy, our bucket is filled, but when our bucket is empty, we are feeling sad or unhappy.
In class we will be emphasizing be a "Bucket Filler" which is someone that fills someone's bucket with feelings of happiness by saying and doing nice things to others.  Some of the chararcteristics of a "Bucket Filler" are sharing, listening, helping, using kind words, etc.  At the same time of filling someone else's bucket, you are filling your own bucket as well!

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We will also be discussing not being a "Bucket Dipper" who is someone who says and does things that may hurt someone else's feelings.

Each day, we will be filling our classroom bucket with "warm & fuzzies".  We have already began filling our bucket!  The children are doing an amazing job showing kindness to each other.