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69th out of 120 books
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How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids
by
Tom Rath (Goodreads Author),
Maurie J. Manning (Goodreads Author) , Mary Reckmeyer
Through the story of a little boy named Felix, this charming book explains to children how being kind not only helps others, it helps them, too. As he goes about his day, Felix interacts with different people — his sister Anna, his grandfather, other family and friends. Some people are happy, but others are grumpy or sad. Using the metaphor of a bucket and dipper, Felix’ g...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
April 1st 2009
by Gallup Press
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Category: Grades K-3, Book #25
This book set the tone for my entire school year. The premise is to teach children about what their actions can do to help someone or to put them down. All of our conversations when it comes to behavior are about "bucket filling behaviors." The children can easily understand the concept and apply it to their own behavior.
Critic Review from Barnes and Noble.com:
School Library Journal
- K-Gr 2—Based on the author's adult work How Full Is Your Bucket? (Gallup, 2004), th...more
This book set the tone for my entire school year. The premise is to teach children about what their actions can do to help someone or to put them down. All of our conversations when it comes to behavior are about "bucket filling behaviors." The children can easily understand the concept and apply it to their own behavior.
Critic Review from Barnes and Noble.com:
School Library Journal
- K-Gr 2—Based on the author's adult work How Full Is Your Bucket? (Gallup, 2004), th...more
This book talks about the concept of a bucket through the perspective of the young boy Felix. Felix's grandpa tells him that everybody has a bucket and the purpose of the bucket is to hold good thoughts and good feelings about yourself. His grandpa tells him that after Felix and his sister got into an argument which resulted in his sister crying. The next morning, Felix wakes up to see a bucket floating above his head, not only that but he sees it above everybody else's as well. Felix begins to...more
This book follows Felix, a little boy who is not always very nice to his younger sister. His mother reminds him that each person has an invisible bucket inside them, and when we treat others with disrespect, a dop falls out of their bucket. People with empty buckets end up not being able to treat others with kindness and can begin to have bad thoughts about others if they are not treating others nicely. Felix begins noticing this happening to himself, so he starts to pay closer attention to how...more
I thought this was an inspiring, wonderful story for kids. It is one of those stories, that after you read it, it makes you so happy, and makes you want to go out and make others happy as well. You can learn a lot from this story as well, like how to build friendships, and building up your self-esteem. I thought it was great, that this kid in the story went out of his way to make others happy. I think many kids would enjoy this story, and it would make a big influence on some of their lives. I t...more
This book teaches kids that everyone has an invisible bucket. We use this book and term at our school this year. We encourage students to fill each others' buckets by saying kind words and helping each other. We also teach that doing things such as arguing, bullying, fighting, lying, can take drops out of buckets. We have class buckets as well. When we see classes doing a good job in the hallway, on their work, etc, we give classes a drop (marble) to fill their class bucket. When they have fille...more
This is a great book to read to students to address the issue of bullying. The main character realizes that he, along with everyone else he encounters, has an invisible bucket on the top of his head. Whenever someone is encouraging to him, his buckets fills up, but whenever someone is mean towards him, water spills out of his bucket. I think students will be able to relate to how this boy feels at different parts in the book. After reading this story, a possible activity would be to have a bucke...more
"How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids" is a great picture book for any age group. Although this particular version is geared to those of the grade school set, I found that the lessons it teaches can carry over. The premise of the book is that we all have an emotional bucket. If we are constantly inundated with negativity, our bucket will begin to leak and eventually be empty; leaving us unhappy, angry, and not a person that anyone wants to be around. Our bucket will only begin to fill back up again...more
LOOOOVE!!!! This book is amazing. It's about treating one another with kindness and respect. I've seen this utilized as an amazing behavior management plan. A teacher I've observed uses buckets to manage her students; each student starts off their day with a full bucket, but if they choose to make bad choices, they lose drops of rain from their buckets. She's able to use this book as an activating strategy; whenever, her students aren't on task, she'll read this book aloud as a reminder to them....more
I have personally witnessed children get something out of reading this book. It is inspirational and shows the one thing that we as educators say all the time but never quite seem to get across: the way you act and feel towards a person has a direct effect on them. Whether it's negativity or love, it will affect the person on the receiving end. In one of my placements, we created "buckets" with each student's name displayed on them and at any point throughout the day, students were free to fill...more
This is a book about filling each others invisible buckets. making people feel good about themselves through encouragement and positive feedback.
I taught a lesson in a third grade class using this book with cutout buckets. The students loved the idea that they could write nice notes to their friends and help everyone's buckets fill up.
I recommend everyone read this book or the more adult version because it is something we as a society can do for each other to make living a little easier.
I taught a lesson in a third grade class using this book with cutout buckets. The students loved the idea that they could write nice notes to their friends and help everyone's buckets fill up.
I recommend everyone read this book or the more adult version because it is something we as a society can do for each other to make living a little easier.
Apr 23, 2012
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I thought this book was really well written. It is truly a great way to help students express themselves and understand how things work and how important it is to fill your bucket. Most children have not heard that filling your bucket can also be used as a metaphor for your positive feelings. Once the main character starts feeling better he helps other kids whose buckets need filling which also makes him feel better. There is definitely a lesson to be learned through reading this book!
This book uses the analogy of a full/empty bucket to show how a person feels throughout the day. I plan to use this book in my classroom to show my students how their actions affect others, as well as to incorporate capacity into a real-life situation. This will be an excellent text to expose students to what it looks like and what happens when you add and/or take water out of a container; I plan to illustrate this through pictures in the book as well as a real-life model.
This book was used at my current placement to introduce the schools theme. All around the office and on each hall there are signs that say "Fill Up Your Bucket!" This is such a good book for the begining of the year to get students excited about positive reinforcment and good behavior. Not only do rthe teacher individually have a "fill your bucket method" but school wide students can fill up a bucket and each time they do the school gets ice cream at lunch or a reward.
Everyone has a bucket inside them. When someone is mean, you lose water. When someone is kind or when you're kind, you gain water.
Our school psychologist used this with a lower elementary class with lots o' meanness issues. It's a usable book for that sort of thing. Outside of that? I dunno. Probably not.
FYI - When I talked with the psychologist about it, she explained that she'd used the adult version. It's more introspective and helps you focus on your skills and attributes.
Our school psychologist used this with a lower elementary class with lots o' meanness issues. It's a usable book for that sort of thing. Outside of that? I dunno. Probably not.
FYI - When I talked with the psychologist about it, she explained that she'd used the adult version. It's more introspective and helps you focus on your skills and attributes.
This book is great. It teaches the readers about how crucial it is to simply be kind throughout the day. Fill the day up with kindness instead of worry, hate, and dissent. Felix, the protagonist, finds himself interacting with other people in his life and seeing how he directly or indirectly affects them everyday with his own actions. It's a great perspective for young readers that will get them thinking.
This book is one that I can easily see myself using in the classroom as teacher! The message to encourage children to help others is not only inspiring for them, but also adults! Kindness and respect are hard to come by and any book that promotes these things are amazing for children to read. This book can also be used as a behavior management strategy and can be read to any grade level!
What a great book written to help people to understand the idea that if you help or give to another soul, you will reap a reward for your kindness. Many times more than you give. Each good deed fills your bucket another drop. Their good deeds to you fills your bucket as well. But if they do something mean to you it takes a drop away. Cleverly written and great for children of adults!
Excellent book about how treating others can make you feel good, just like when people treat you well. Great read aloud to discuss how classroom community and how we should treat each other in class and in our outside lives. I think this book could be used at the beginning of the year, and also during the year when you start to see the students treating each other badly.
I LOVE this book. We all need to remember that we have a choice each time we encounter someone. We can choose to "fill" their bucket with our kind words or deeds. Or "empty" their bucket with unkind words or actions. It is such a simple thing to give a smile or a thoughtful gesture that can make someone's day.
So remember to "fill" the bucket of those around you.
So remember to "fill" the bucket of those around you.
This is a great boook about treatingother and how makingother feel better makes you feel better. I would use this book for any grades and use it as a discussion of how we can treat eachother and what consequence our behavior has on others and ourselves
Rath, T., Reckmeyer, M., & Manning, M. (2009). How full is your bucket?: for kids. New York: Gallup Press.
Rath, T., Reckmeyer, M., & Manning, M. (2009). How full is your bucket?: for kids. New York: Gallup Press.
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This book teaches children about what their actions can do to someone. Children can learn that saying and doing nice things they can make others feel happy. This is a great book to read to children dealing with bulling and most of all to the children that are doing the bulling.
Learning Experience
Provide each student a personal bucket. Fill the buckets with somethings meaninful to the students. Discuss the feelings associate with having a "Full Bucket".
This book teaches children about what their actions can do to someone. Children can learn that saying and doing nice things they can make others feel happy. This is a great book to read to children dealing with bulling and most of all to the children that are doing the bulling.
Learning Experience
Provide each student a personal bucket. Fill the buckets with somethings meaninful to the students. Discuss the feelings associate with having a "Full Bucket".
How full is your bucket is a great book about character and treating others the way you want to be treated. I would pair it with small buckets in the class for the kids. They could slowly fill their buckets with stickers or beads when they show great character. It teaches students that they are part of a community, and that hurting other people's feelings hurts yourself too.
Truly inspiring book. My child loved the simple concept of doing good things. I sent this book to his school for his bring a book from home day and the teacher told me that the kids liked it a lot. she used a bucket of water to explain it to 3.5yr old kids and it was amazing to hear the kids say we dont want the water to spill. I would highly recommend this book.
This is a great book about a boy who learns the hard way that being nice is easier than being mean and that when we are nice to others, good things happen to us. This is a great story to use when building community in your classroom because it teaches students about respecting others and treating them as you want to be treated
I had never heard about this until I witnessed my third grade cooperating teacher do it. It is very interesting to see how students will read this book and then do the very act that the book does!! It is great for teaching students to be nice to each other and how important it is that we build up each others self esteem.
This book really resonated with my 2nd/3rd graders and after reading and discussing it, we all frequently spoke about each others "buckets." It gave us a great vocabulary to talk about how we treat others and how that can make them and US feel. I plan on using it with my 1st graders and think it will be similarly successful.
This story teaches children to be mindful of how they treat others. It relates our emotions to a bucket of water. Sometimes the bucket of water is not always full. There are things that may tip our bucket and things we may do that tip other people's buckets. Ultimately we want to keep our bucket as full as possible.
I loved the adult version of this book. I did like this one, however I felt like it wasn't as child friendly as it could have been...I was hoping for more examples and it seemed a little too obscure for my 5 year old. However, I still like it and would recommend it. We talk a lot about filling buckets in our family :)
This is a really sweet book, and teaches a little about bullying. It does teach you how to be kind to others. You cannot always take from people, sometimes you need to show love also. good read aloud, and the illustrations really drive home the idea of the bucket. Good to read to children who fight alot with others.
This book is a winner when it comes to showing that sometimes people need to make one another feel better. It’s about making everyone feel better by using the idea of a bucket. The idea is to keep everyone’s bucket full, which is a way of cheering others up. I say it's perfect from grades pre-k to 3rd grade.
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Tom Rath is one of the most influential authors of the last decade. He studies the role of human behavior in health, business, and economics. Tom writes and speaks on a range of topics, from wellbeing to organizational leadership.
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Nov 24, 2012 09:57am