Like many of you, I created a bucket filling environment. During the first few weeks of school we read the book How Full is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer and Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids by Carol McCloud.
Once the students were comfortable with the language and purpose of bucket filling, we created a "Bucket Person of the Week. Each week we selected a student to highlight and during Work on Writing the rest of the class would write a bucket filling message to that person. I kept a special mailbox to store the written bucket messages and at the end of the week I would bind them and present them to the student. Students LOVED receiving their special messages!
(I'm still new at the embedding Google docs thing so if this link does not work let me know and I will try again).
By the way, in case you haven't discovered this there is a Bucket Fillers website that offers a free e-Newsletter and they have a nifty shop with Bucket Filling emblems!
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Cute! I just learned what filling a bucket meant a couple of days ago, if you can believe that! :-)
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