Filling a bucket | Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids

Great way to start the year! | Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids | Carol McCloud

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	• Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids Carol McCloud Ferne Press, 2006 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 95 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great even for the "big kids"

I love this book. I have read it with my older students (4th/5th graders so roughly 10-12 years old) and they still ask me if they can borrow it to read during reading time. The message is simple and that's what I think appeals to these children. All too often in today's world, children are NOT taught about respect at home and bullying is out of control in many schools. This book has helped my students to make a connection to their feelings with the bucket illustrations. They often will correct each other now by saying "uh oh, are you being a filler or a dipper?" This book is fabulous.

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Filling a bucket

I recently got a copy of this book and thoroughly enjoyed it. The story is not only importantant reading for children, but for adults as well. What could be a greater challenge than to fill your bucket with good thoughts and good deeds. We all should be doing that.

The illustrations are also beautiful and attractive. This is one book all church and school libraries should include. It is not just fun reading, but also very instructive in how to make our world a better place.

Max Ediger, author of Caleb & Shalev

Great way to start the year!

I think this is a wonderful book that teaches about being kind to others. As a teacher, I look forward to starting my year with reading this book to my class and teaching them how to be bucket fillers. I started late this year and the students were enthusiastic to begin practicing saying kind and supportive words. It seems simplistic, but it has a powerful message.

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Amazing Book for Kindergarteners

This book teaches young children how their actions affect others. When their actions are loving, they fill someone's bucket. When their actions are not, they dump someone's bucket. In our house, we ask "are you being a bucket filler or a bucket dumper?" Children then immediately realize the consequences of their actions on others. This is a must have book.

Happiness, Diversity and Kindness

This book is a MUST within the first week of school. We read this book to our Kindergarten, First and Second grade students, we then split up the students and had an activity for students to brainstorm how to be BUCKET FILLERS for either THE EARTH, THEIR FAMILY, AT SCHOOL or IN THE COMMUNITY. The final products were posted in classrooms. As a kindergarten teacher, this book was taken out and read to any class that had a problem with bullying or with our Book Buddies so we'd all be on the same page and know what it is to be a BUCKET FILLER and not a BUCKET DIPPER. IT IS A MUST HAVE BOOK for ANY AGE!

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Through simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heartwarming book encourages positive behavior as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation, and love. Bucket filling and dipping are effective metaphors for understanding the effects of our actions and words on the well being of others and ourselves.