Have you filled a bucket today?

 At the Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, we are Bucket Fillers: in our classrooms, throughout the building, on the playground, in the cafeteria, on the school bus and in our community.  Our very special students and staff learned what it means to be a Bucket Filler.   Ms. Doxsee, one of our P.E. teachers, read aloud to the entire school the book, Have You Filled A Bucket Today?:  A Guide To Daily Happiness For Kids, by Carol McCloud. This wonderful and inspiring story teaches us that everyone carries around an invisible bucket that holds good thoughts and feelings about themselves.  People feel happy when their buckets are full.   A Bucket Filler is a loving, caring person who says or does nice things that makes others feel special.

To recognize our Bucket Fillers we will put children’s names on colorful stars and hearts which will be displayed in our main hallway.  Thanks to our wonderful PTA, there will be special buckets in classrooms and throughout the building where stars and hearts will be filled out by teachers, school staff and classmates.  We’ll send home a Bucket Filler certificate in order for these special acts of kindness and friendship to be shared with you at home.

As you know, building character and teaching and promoting social skills is very important to us at Roosevelt.  We believe the concept of Bucket Filling is a wonderful way to ignite children's desire to do loving things for others as well as assist them on their journey toward being self-aware individuals.  You may even wish to extend this idea to your home by identifying “bucket filling” acts within your family.