Becoming Bucket Fillers

Today we read the story "Have you Filled a Bucket Today?" written by Carol McCloud.  In short, the story tells us that we all carry around invisible buckets to hold our happy thoughts and feelings about ourselves.  Everyone has one.  Buckets are filled when we say or do something kind or something helpful for another person.  That person's bucket gets filled and so do ours!!  It feels good to be kind!

At the same time, when a person is unkind, mean or not helpful, they dip into the buckets of the people that they have hurt.  It makes us sad, lonely and sometimes frustrated when someone dips into our bucket.

Amazingly, this book echoes our school-wide guiding principals - taking care of ourselves, others and our things.  When we fill buckets, we are able to do all three of these things!!

The Shamayim children held on tight to this idea of filling buckets.  We saw kindness, compassion and friendly behavior.  We heard phrases like "Victoria filled my bucket!"  "I'm going to fill Bennett's bucket when we go outside".  It was exciting to see these displays throughout the day.  We caught Bennett and Ilan filing buckets by playing nicely with each other and helping to clean up when play time was over.