[LM_NET] ELEM: holding the line on book care

[Johanna Halbeisen <JH@NEWSONGLIBRARY.ORG>]

Me again.  Has anyone do more than demonstrate good book care at the 
beginning of the year?  I read on one post sometime back that someone 
told the kindergarteners that when they learned to turn the pages at 
the corners (instead of close to the gutter) they could start taking 
out books.  I'm also trying to get the kids not to open books when 
standing or walking.  Especially with the big books that start 
separating at the spine.

What I'd really like to know is if you have insisted on certain ways 
of handling books. How did you introduce it and how to do you make 
sure kids continue to do it the right way?  Are there consequences 
for things like picking up a book by its front cover?  I certainly 
don't want to sit down on them hard enough to make them too wary to 
enjoy the books.

I hear my teachers lamenting about the way the kids handle books.  I 
think I'll have to get it started right at the beginning of next 
year.  Trying to do it now is a bit like closing the barn door after 
the horses got out.  Running around trying to get them back in the 
barn.  All seven hundred of them.

thanks again,
Johanna
-- 
Johanna Halbeisen, Library Media Teacher
Woodland Elementary School (K-4)
80 Powder Mill Rd, Southwick, MA 01077
JH@newsonglibrary.org
Inspiration only knocks.  Some writers expect it to break down the 
door and pull them out of bed.  - Leonard S. Bernstein

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