Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
Written by Carol McCloud and Illustrated by David Messing
Ferne Press, 2006
Picture Book
Did you know that you had an imaginary bucket that you carry with you everywhere you go? In this heartfelt book, children are being taught about their imaginary buckets and how this bucket affects their daily life. This book is all about promoting kindness and how kindness can fill up not only someone else's bucket, but how it can fill your own bucket as well. This book teaches children ways to be a bucket filler but also ways to be a bucket dipper. Do you want to learn new ways to be a bucket filler? Check out this book to learn how!
The illustrations in this book are very bright and colorful. The pictures promote diversity and inclusion by using many different ethnicities, cultures, ages, and abilities. The pictures are from many different places such as the classroom, bus, soccer field, and neighborhood. The illustrator used cartoon drawings with many different drawing utensils.
I chose English as my content area and Kindergarten for my grade. I actually read this book to my kindergarten class for practicum last semester and they LOVED it. For that lesson, I used this book to teach my students about friendship, kindness, and positive relationships. You could also use this book to help Kindergartner's practice directionality, left to right progression, and the return sweep. This could be a reading lesson and friendship lesson combined into one. Overall, this book is perfect for this age group. The bright and fun pictures mixed with the many examples of bucket fillers are a perfect way for students to learn about concepts of print. Plus, they will learn some valuable life lessons and skills. You definitely get the best of both worlds!
Also, here is a picture of the book in case you wanted to check it out!
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