Taking Care of Your Body

"Don't put anything inside your ears, not even cotton swabs."

Taking Care of Your Body
By: Sylvia Goulding
Copyright 2005
Rourke Publishing LLC
Non-fiction (informational)
Older Elementary aged kids
32 Pages

There are a lot of intersting and helpful facts on how to take care of your body in this book.  It tells you about the topic and then other really cool facts.  Did you know that your hair grows faster in the summer?!  Helpful things to try to keep that part of your body healthy on each page.  There are helpful hints about taking care of you toe nails and finger nails, yea, if you dont take care of them they can get infected and you can get sick.  Make sure to always dry between your toes.  Taking care of your skin is very importent, watch out for that sun, it can really hurt you, and it is different for kids of all different skin colors and types.  If you don't take care of your eyes you can end up with eye problems.  You an also damage your hearing if you don't take care of your ears.  How loud do you play your music?  How often and, when you do, how do you clean your ears?  Take care of you teeth, make sure to go to teh dentist for cleaning and also when you have a toothach, if you don't the pain can get worse and what to do to fix the probelm will be more then what it would of been.  You also need to take care of not only the outside of your body but the inside too, make sure you know what you are putting in your body, watch what you eat.  Stay active and have fun playing outside, exsersise CAN be fun!  Be careful though, avoid hurting yourself, and when you do make sure to take care of it.   Staying away for harmful things is importent, putting things like drugs and alcohol into your body is bad.  Staying healthy is a good way to avoid feeling stressed, but when you do start feeling that way there are many ways that you can turn that frown upside down.  When you do get sick and hurt, there are lots of people out there who can take care of you and help you get better.  When you do these things it will help you to live a long, happy, healthy life.

I would recomend this book to be in a classroom, even to be used as a lesson on taking care of yourself.  You could turn this book into a lesson and depending on what grade you are teaching you can even have students in groups and have each group a topic and they can teach the class.

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I found this book really intersting.  Taking care of your body is something importent.  I even relized somethings that maybe I should be doing that I am not doing.