Library Orientation

Review library rules and manners after reading Petunia by Roger Duvoisin.

 

• Explain that Petunia is a goose who was glad to help and thought a book could make her wise, but some of the things Petunia did with a book made you nervous.  Brainstorm the things that Petunia did with the book that she shouldn't have.  Discuss why these are things that we shouldn't do with books. 

  • i.e. sleeping with it, swimming with it, blowing it up with firecrackers, etc. 

• But Petunia thought she was getting wise and wanted to use her wisdom to help her friends. Ask the students if they can use some of their wisdom to tell everyone how to care for books. Then offer to give a clue and ask the students to tell you the rule.  Show them a picture or an artifact and have your smart Petunias guess the rule.

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Item	Rule
Soap	Wash your hands before you read the book
Dog collar	Keep books away from pets and small children
Water bottle	Don’t pack your book and your bottled water in your backpack together
Set of markers	Don't mark, write or colour in your books
Small backpack	Keep your books in your backpack/zippie when you travel to and from school
Small lunch kit	Don’t eat while you read and do not take your library book to lunch
Bubble Bath Clock	Don't take your book into the bathtub with you        Bring your books back on time

 

Adapted from Stretchy Library Lessons, Upstart Books, 2005