Don't Let the Pigeon Touch the Books

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.

Then we watched this video:

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

DO	DON'T
use clean hands	drop your book in a puddle
treat them gently	rip the pages
leave the covers/wrappers on	color in your book
put your book back where you got it	throw your book at the wall

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 is some of their work: