Welcome Ms. Nelson's

Woodland Forest Friends

Campus opens at 8:40 with first bell at 8:55

School hours 9:00 - 3:30

We are a Bucket Filling Class!!!

Bucket Fillers is a program based on the Strengths & Positive Psychology philosophy of Donald Clifton, known as the "Father of Strenghts Psychology", and the educational programs of Merrill Lundgren, the Bucket Man. The Bucket Filling program is a nationwide program designed to improve Social & Emotional learning at school. It is based on a simple concept where we each have an invisible bucket with the singular purpose of holding all our  good thoughts and feelings about ourselves. When we are happy and good to others, our buckets become full. When we are sad or not nice to others, our buckets become empty. We become "Bucket Fillers" when we are nice to others. Bucket Fillers fill both ours and each others buckets. But when we make some one feel bad, we become "Bucket Dippers" . Bucket Dippers dip into our buckets.

Each child has decorated their own bucket and we've created a bucket filling wall. We will "fill" each others buckets by writing kind words to each other and celebrating the great things happening in our room! At the end of each week, we "empty" the buckets and read what was put in our buckets. Watch for these notes coming home. When you come in feel free to add to our buckets.

We have shared three books that have excited us about this bucket filling philosophy.

  Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids    

by Carol McCloud   .  

Fill a Bucket; A Guide to Daily Happiness for Young Children

by Carol McCloud

How Full is Your Bucket? for Kids

by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer

Ask your child how they filled a bucket today!

For more information about Bucket Filling

please visit the following web pages: 

  www.bucketfillersforlife.com .   

http://www.bucketfillers101.com .