Bucket Filling!!

Have you filled someone’s bucket today?  Your kindergartener has been asked that question daily for the past couple of weeks.  Room 8 and other classrooms within HCS are working to be a school FULL of “Bucket Fillers”.  We say that our buckets are full when we are happy and feel good about ourselves.  We need other people to help fill our buckets and they need us to help fill theirs.  Filling another person’s bucket is easy.

A bucket can be filled by doing something as simple as a smile and greeting someone, remembering to say thank you when someone has been kind, helping a friend with a problem, or complimenting someone on a job well done.  The list is endless when it comes to being a “Bucket Filler”.

Sometimes people dip into our buckets and that is called “Bucket Dipping”.  This is what we want to try to avoid doing to others.  Bucket Dipping is when people use unkind works, bully others, say or do mean or inappropriate things, not helping others or not treating others in a respectful way.

Just as someone can help us feel good by being a bucket filler, they can also cause us to feel sad by dipping into our bucket.  It is important to let people know when they fill our bucket and it is just as important to let them know when they dip into our bucket.

The bucket filling program at HCS is based off a book, “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?” by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer.

Bucket Filling is something everyone can do and practice every day.  My goal is to get students, staff and parents involved with filling one another’s buckets!

Have you filled  someone’s bucket today???