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Teacher Share: How Full Is Your Bucket?

A 4:32-Min. Video on Fostering Emotional Understanding in the Classroom

Teacher’s Takeaway

“[How Full Is Your Bucket?] is so good for building a community of learners [and helping] students understand themselves and how to have control over their emotions.” —Kelly Matthews

The adjustment to in-person learning can be difficult for everyone. Fortunately, demonstrating ways that students can show one another kindness can make the transition much easier.

In this video, fourth grade teacher Kelly Matthews from Steele Elementary in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shares how she uses How Full Is Your Bucket? Young Reader’s Edition to help her students connect on a deeper level and develop lifelong skills to be kind to one another.

Watch Kelly’s review for more ideas on how to use the Book of the Week with your students.

Teacher Tip: Read It as a Class!

How Full Is Your Bucket? is really about how we can be thoughtful and compassionate members of our community. Foster that connection by reading the book aloud and encouraging discussions and reflections with your students.

• Journaling: As students read, encourage them to practice meaningful writing by recording the lessons they learn along the way.

• Random Acts of Kindness: After students learn about what it means to fill someone’s bucket, encourage them to think about how they might perform random acts of kindness to fill the buckets of people in their lives.

• Creative Performance: Students can act out scenarios in which they demonstrate ways to fill each other's buckets. Consider allowing them to put on a show for the school to help spread the message of kindness!

Interested in trying Kelly’s suggestion of encouraging students to act out practicing kindness? Download a free printable worksheet in this week’s Cooked Up from a Book.

How do you plan to use How Full Is Your Bucket? Young Reader’s Edition with your class? Please share with the Scholastic Book Clubs community on Facebook and Instagram using the hashtag #ScholasticBookClubs.

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How Full Is Your Bucket? Young Reader’s Edition
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A Note from Judy

Dragons are huge fans of tacos—as long as they don’t have one secret, spicy ingredient! The Book of the Week is the laugh-out-loud, fun-to-read-together picture book Dragons Love Tacos, written by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri!

Dance to an original song with the Book Boys; discover the many ways that one first grade teacher uses Dragons Love Tacos with her students in Book Talks; read an exclusive interview with Adam Rubin in Behind the Scenes; and download a free printable “Dragons Love My Tacos!” recipe activity in Cooked Up from a Book that also helps students practice sequencing.

We hope that your younger readers have a blast with Dragons Love Tacos—and remember: no salsa!

Judy Newman

President and Reader in Chief
Scholastic Book Clubs

Book of the Week

Dragons Love Tacos

by Adam Rubin, illustrated
by Daniel Salmieri
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