Bucket Filling Anchor Chart Poster
This Really Good Stuff® product includes:
• Bucket Filling Anchor Chart Poster, Write Again®
wipe-off laminate
• This Really Good Stuff® Activity Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of this Really Good
Stuff® Bucket Filling Anchor Chart Poster—an
interactive poster designed to help students understand
social behaviors that lead to positive classroom
experiences.
Displaying the Bucket Filling Anchor Chart Poster
Before displaying the Bucket Filling Anchor Chart Poster,
make copies of this Really Good Stuff® Activity Guide, cut
apart the reproducibles, and file the pages for future use.
Or, download another copy of it from our Web site at
www.reallygoodstuff.com. Always use a dry erase marker
on the Poster in order to preserve its Write Again® wipe-off
laminate surface. Hang the Poster where students will be
able to see and interact with it easily.
Introducing the Bucket Filling Anchor Chart Poster
Gather students around the Bucket Filling Anchor Chart
Poster. Explain or review that every person in the world
has an imaginary bucket that they carry. In this “bucket,”
we store our feelings. Indicate that when our buckets are
full, we feel great. When they are empty, we feel awful. And,
we affect each other’s buckets. Further explain that when
we say or do positive things toward another person, we
become a “bucket filler.” Our positive words and actions fill
both their bucket and our own. On the other hand, when
we say or do negative things toward another person, we
become “bucket dippers.” While we may feel that we can
take from another person’s bucket to fill our own, bucket
dipping always takes from both people’s buckets. Discuss
that a person can choose to be either a bucket filler or a
bucket dipper.
Break students into small groups, and direct them to
identify examples of bucket filling and bucket dipping
actions and to record them. When they have finished, ask
the groups to share their lists and to use a dry erase
marker to record their answers on the Poster. Here are a
few to get you started:
Bucket Filling
Helping someone
Sharing
Smiling
Complimenting a classmate
Being kind Following directions
Listening to others
Bucket Dipping
Pushing anyone
Bragging
Teasing anyone
Cutting in line
Stealing
Bullying anyone
Being disrespectful
What Would You Do?
Ask students to look at common situations that may
occur on any day in their lives by having them complete
the following statements for each of the situations listed
below: If
(fill with situations below)
.
, a bucket filler would
If
(fill with situations below)
.
, a bucket dipper would
• someone trips in the lunch line
• a new student joins our class
• the person who sits across from you on the bus is
being teased
• someone forgets his/her pencil
• your parent comes home after work with a headache
• someone is afraid to go up the climbing wall and you
are really good at it
• you get a better grade on your spelling test than the
student sitting next to you
• you see someone sitting alone on the playground
• you see a younger student lost in the hallway at school
I Am a Bucket Filler!
Copy and distribute the I Am a Bucket Filler Writing Prompt
Reproducible. Tell students to remember a time when they
were a bucket filler or a way they could be one in the future.
Instruct students to write a paragraph completing the
statement I am a bucket filler when I . . . and to illustrate
their paragraph. Have them share their scenarios with the
class. Display their work around the Bucket Filling Anchor
Chart Poster, or create a class book by binding the pages
together.
Rewards of Bucket Filling
Make copies of the I Am a Bucket Filler Awards
Reproducible, and cut the certificates apart. Use the
bucket filler awards to encourage students to be bucket
fillers by distributing one each time you notice a positive
behavior listed on the Bucket Filling Anchor Chart Poster.
Tell the entire class what you saw, and send home the
award to share the good news with the student’s parents.
Encourage each student to notice when someone fills his
or her bucket. Keep copies of the peer award available, and
tell students to fill one out and give it to a classmate
whenever it is appropriate.
All activity guides can be found online.
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I Am a Bucket Filler Awards Reproducible
I AM A
BUCKET FILLER
Dear
,
You filled my bucket
today by . . .
filled a bucket by . . .
.
.
Congratulations,
Thank You!
I Am a Bucket Filler Writing Prompt Reproducible
Name:
Date:
I am a bucket filler when I
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© 2014 Really Good Stuff® 1-800-366-1920 www.reallygoodstuff.com Made in USA #162821