Have you filled a bucket today?

Last week Alexis Koufidis brought to school a book called, Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids by Carol McCloud.  Kevin read the book to the year 2 neighbourhood and we have been developing ideas about ‘changing’ our behaviour and trying to recognise whether we are ‘bucket fillers’ or ‘bucket dippers’.

The story tells us that each one of us has an invisible bucket. It is constantly emptied or filled, depending on what others say or do to us.  When our bucket is full, we feel great. When it is empty, we feel awful. We sometimes become bucket dippers when we dip into other people's buckets by saying or doing things that hurts others.  The more we dip into other people’s buckets with negative emotions, our bucket also diminishes. The more we fill other people’s buckets, the more our bucket fills up too. We all face a choice every moment of every day: We can either fill one another's buckets, or we can dip from them.

A green bucket has been established in our classroom to promote a collective Year 2 Neighbourhood of bucket fillers. We place unifix blocks in our bucket every time positive action is taking place in our neighbourhood.  We seem to be filling our bucket very quickly!

Kevin, Sia & Elizabeth