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Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud is a great book to teach young children about caring for others. How our actions and words hurt people around us. The book uses colorful illustration to teach an important lesson, thinking about others. The book describes everyone has an invisible bucket, you might not see it but it is there. The bucket’s purpose is to hold your good thoughts that make you warm and fuzzy.

Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A book review with lots of classroom resources including a bucket coloring freebie and a chant!

Five fun and easy activities to learn about kindness to complement the popular book "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?"

I love using children’s literature to help students understand a concept. One of my favorite books to share with my students at the beginning of the year to help them transition to school and how we should act is How Full Is Your Bucket? (affiliate link) This is a great story to introduce how we should interact with our classmates and why. In this story, a little boy named Felix is taught about an invisible bucket. His grandfathers share with him that when your bucket is dipped, you feel bad…

Our words & actions matter. We can use them to build people up or tear them down. I love introducing Bucket Filling and Bucket Dipping to my class. We fill each other buckets by writing meaningful compliments. Learning the difference between superficial comments “You look pretty” vs. deeper compliments “Thank you for not laughing when I tripped and helping me pick up my papers” is a must. Come see how I implement Bucket Filling Activities in school and grab my materials.

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I love using this management system with my students. I simply laminated these bucket die cuts and added velcro dots. I hot glued velcro dots on the quiet critters to use as the 'fillers' for the buckets.

Tomorrow is the first day of school! I am SO excited to *officially* meet my little first grade friends. Some of them came in on Friday ...

These 21 Bucket Filler Activities Will Spread Kindness in Your Classroom

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Have you ever read this book? It's such a wonderful book that helps kids visualize how their words and actions affect other people. It talk...

One concept that I love using with the students in my social skills group is that of Bucketfilling. This idea is based on the book "Have Y...

Have you filled a bucket today? Teach your students how to be kind and respectful with this unique bucket filler concept.

If you're looking for a book to share with kids that encourages kindness, compassion, & gratitude then this is for you. Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud is a beautiful storybook with a wonderful concept that will help children (& adults) understand that simple actions can change the world for the better. I first came across this book a couple of years ago & it's just one of those children's books that stays with you. The story is so simple but also so clever, & the colourful…