Taking Care of Books

I just love this book I came across on Kindergarten…Kindergarten… It’s a printable book {she did such a great job creating it, really cute!} you can make to teach kids about taking care of books. It’s something we talk about at circle time or story time and my group is very concerned if we have a book with writing in it. And I’m always repairing books…sometimes just due to wear, other times from page tearing.
I can’t wait to show it to the kids! Brett even was intrigued. 

It was fun “defacing” the book and making it look like a little someone did it. Marker & pencil.

On these two pages I used paint. Maybe got a little carried away…

Stickers, glue & paper and ripping on the next page. I taped up some of the rips because that’s what we do.

I think this book will be very popular and the kids will really learn from it.
We also talk about the cover, the spine (like we each have and it holds us together), back cover, title, author, illustrator. I teach kids to put the books on a table, not the floor and to put the book on the shelf carefully, with the spine out. Usually I put them away because my group is young and we have a lot of books. During clean up time the kids stack books for me to put away later.
I put up this “Parts of a book” poster by our bookshelf and the kids can name the different parts or we can talk about it when we sit there.


***Several years ago I bought an inexpensive binding machine from LTD Commodities. They have them again! Only $17.95! It's something I use very occasionally so I can't say how long it will hold up but it's nice to have and the price is right.