Filling Buckets
Wake County focuses on character education and has a monthly character trait that all students are encouraged to focus on and show throughout the month.
Our class will be starting a new program. It's based off the book Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids by Carol McCloud.
Each child will be making their own bucket and we'll put them on a bulletin board. Then, each child will be encouraged to help "fill" each other's buckets by writing kind words to them and celebrating the great things happening in our room! At the end of each week, we'll "empty" the buckets and read what was put in our buckets.
This program has several curriculum goals:
- To teach children how to reach out and express love, respect and appreciation to others.
- To help children become other-centered rather than self-centered.
- To help children express their feelings (good and bad) in a healthly manner.
- To help children understand where feeling originate and how to protect their feelings from being hurt.
- To establish a framework for more constructive words and actions and less bullying.
- To create more positive home and school environments.
Concepts Learned:
- Bucket Filling - showing love and respect for others
- Bucket dipping - bullying
- Be sure to ask your child about their bucket and all the great things going into the buckets of their classmates!!
- Check out the Bucket Fillers website for more great information!! You can subscribe to their newsletter there too!