13th August Builders Day

Builders' Day is the professional holiday of all people involved in the construction process, although engineers and architects have their separate professional days as well. It was first celebrated in the Soviet Union on August 8, 1956.

Building and construction is a great topic for Prep school aged children. They love building things themselves, they love playing in the sand with trucks and diggers and they are fascinated by flouro clothing and hard hats.

There's an abundance of picture books about building and they make a wonderful display in the library. Put out some plastic trucks, diggers and blocks and there will be the opportunity for building.

Start with a fabulous book like Christy Hale's Dreaming Up  as a focus and then add whatever else you think will be borrowed. I would add:

• Ready, Set, Build! by Meg Fleming and Jarvis

• Building a House by Byron Barton

• Blue, the Builder's Dog  by Jennifer Storer and Andrew Joyner

• A Girl Can Build Anything by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo Pat Zietlow Miller 

• Watcha Building? by Andrew Daddo and Stephen Michael King

• Let's Build a House by Mike Lucas and Daron Parton

• Let's Build a House by Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom

• Let's Build a Backyard by Mike Lucas and Daron Parton

• Let's Build a Boat by Jane Godwin and Meg Rennie

• Let's Build  by Sue Fliess and Miki Sakamoto

• Building a Home  by Polly Faber and Klas Falhen

• Building Our House by Jonathan Bean

• The Little Red Fort  by Brenda Maier and Sonia Sanchez

• Billions of Bricks by Kurt Cyrus

• Construction  by Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock

• B is for Bulldozer  by June Sobel and Melissa Iwai

• If I Build a House  by Chris Van Dusen

• Skyscraper  by Jorey Hurley