How Full is Your Bucket?

our "bucket filling bulletin board"

"Each of us has an invisible bucket.  When our bucket is full, we feel great.  When it's empty, we feel awful.  Yet most children, and many adults, don't realize the importance of having a full bucket throughout the day."

This is what is written on the inside cover of the book titled How Full is your Bucket?.  This is a wonderful book about a boy named Felix who begins to see how ever interaction during the day either fills or empties his bucket.  He realizes that filling someone else's bucket also fills his own.  I read this book to the students one of the first days of school, and you probably saw the buckets hanging on the bulletin board the night of Open House.  Well, we have been putting these buckets to good use since then and the students are giving out lots of "bucket fillers" every day!  I am so pleased with their comments and how they are treating one another both in the classroom and out.  Every day the students have a chance to verbally give "bucket fillers" as well as written ones.  I  thought I would enclose a picture of the "buckets" at the end of the day today.  While it is not important how MANY everyone gets, what is more important is that everyone is giving them, which means they are also receiving them as well.

If you have not read the book, I suggest you do.  It is a picture book that has a lot of meaning to it.  I hope the students always remember what it means to "fill someone's bucket" no matter where they are. :)