Teaching book care is an important lesson to go over with the students in the beginning of the school year. I usually start out reading the book “Mr. Wiggle’s Library” and “Mr. Wiggle’s Book” by Paula M. Craig and Carol L. Thompson.
The first one came from Katherine’s blog Kindergarten…kindergarten. It’s a fabulous book that you can print from her blog for FREE. Each page has something “sad” that happens to the library book, and you actually DO that on the page. For example, on one page it says that someone scribbled all over froggy. So you actually take a marker and scribble all over the page. When the kids see that, they totally freak out! I thought this was perfect to use with my Pre-K and Kindergarten students.
I also created another page that you can copy on the back of this bookmark to help the kids start practicing their library number. (Our students are encouraged to learn their library number early on as it’s also a part of their computer login.) I have a 10-key pad by the checkout computer and students learn to type their number in and scan their books. It’s a slow process in the beginning, but once they get it memorized, it sure helps!
Finally, I added in a quick sequencing activity to review the book, and cutting and pasting is always a good skill to practice with kindergarten kiddos!
After we read the book and discussed how to keep their book safe, I gave them the following paper to work on after they checked out their book. I’m going to have their teacher collect all finished papers, and then I will bind them together to make a class book for their classroom library. They seem very excited about this!
Could you send me a link to the book you have shown above, Animals should definitely not check out library books? The link above would not work. Thanks! katie.claxton@visd.net
Sorry Katie, She must have moved her website or updated her page. I've corrected the link and it should now work. I also sent you an email. 🙂
I like the book care bookmarks. thinking of having them laminated and giving to the kindergarteners.
Hi Trudy,
These lessons are always fun to start the year with, especially with the younger ones! I hope your kiddos have fun with them! 🙂
Sandy
Hello, any chance you have a copy of the Powerpoint of “Animals Should Definitely Not Borrow Library Books”? The Wiki space no longer gives access to that presentation. I don’t want to re-invent the wheel, so if you have a copy, could you please email it to me?
I’d really appreciate it. I can no longer open the one I made several years ago based on a similar one.
Thanks,
Christina
Hi Christina,
I found a copy of it on Prezi here at https://prezi.com/oua1nm3chzw1/copy-of-animals-should-definitely-not-borrow-library-books/ I hope this helps! If not, send me your email address and I can send you the copy that I have. 😉
Sandy
What wonderful resources! Thank you so much for sharing!