Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Don't Let the Pigeon Touch the Books! - PM K

In kindergarten, we are discussing book care in preparation for the students' first checkout. I decided to have them teach THE PIGEON some rules.

In case you haven't been introduced to the Pigeon yet, he is the star of a series of books by Mo Willems; the first one is Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! We read that and Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!, and I am happy to report that MOST students resisted his arguments (a few were willing to be bought off by his promise of five bucks).

Then we watched this video:



The students compiled a list of rules that the Pigeon should know. For example:

DO DON'T
read your books color in your book
keep them away from drinks  put your book in the freezer
turn the pages gently rip the pages
bring your books back to the library throw your book on the floor


In our next class, we drew our own Pigeons; Mo Willems has step-by-step instructions for drawing the Pigeon on his site. Then each student chose a rule to teach him. Here they are at work:












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