During the first week of school, I read this book to my class. To summarize, you make other people happy (and "fill their bucket") when you are happy. If you smile at someone, you are filling your bucket and theirs at the same time. When you do a good deed for someone, both of your buckets are being filled. And if you are bullying someone, you are not only emptying their bucket, but also your own too.
My class really enjoyed this book. I know this because they still talk about filling people's buckets. Some kids have connected to it more than other though...take David for example. He is the student from my previous blog who had lots of behavior problems last year. Well, he is one who comes to me on a daily basis and says, "Ms. L, can I fill your bucket?" and gives me a hug. He is very thoughtful. In fact, he was absent one day, so he gave me two hugs to make up for an empty bucket from him the day before. He is turning out to be an amazing little boy who just needed someone to fill his bucket with compliments for all the good choices he is making.
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