This month’s ABC book:  “Have You Filled a Bucket Today” by Carol McCloud is about expressing daily kindness and appreciation to others. Goals of lesson: Teach students the 3 laws of bucket filling: Be a bucket filler. Don’t dip. Use your lid. Empower students to intentionally fill their own buckets and the buckets of others with good feelings (warm fuzzies).    After your child has had the lesson in class, ask your child to tel...

January's Project Cornerstone book is When Sophie gets angry: Really, really angry by author Molly Bang. The book, about a young girl who is searching for ways to cope with "big feelings" like anger, is a Caldecott Honor Book 2000. During Project Cornerstone class readings, students are being taught that they are the directors of their own emotions. In other words, strong emotions are going to happen, but everyone can direct those emotions in positive ways, and make good...