Christmas notebook pictures

This was such a fun unit to do. The notebook turned out really pretty, too. A lot of the ideas came from the 4real learning folks, especially Elizabeth Foss. The books we used were mainly Jan Brett’s Gingerbread Baby, Wild Christmas Reindeer, and Who’s that Knocking on Christmas Eve. We also read The Mitten, The Night Before Christmas, the Twelve days of Christmas, The Hat, Trouble with Trolls, and Christmas Trolls.
This is the cover, a file folder wrapped in wrapping paper, and tied with a ribbon off of a Godiva chocolate box!

On the left is the circle story wheel for Gingerbread baby with scenes from the book in the pie wedges. On the right the gingerbread house is an activity from the Jan Brett website. Below is a mini book showing the steps for making a gingerbread house.

Open the book and see that each step is demonstrated by Superboy and JBug.

Superboy watched an Eyewitness video about the Arctic and Antarctic. He took notes from the video about how they are the same and different.

Lift the flaps to see his summaries of facts about each, as well as maps.

On the left are photos and a scientific report on his experiment about the insulating qualities of polar bear blubber. On the right is a pretty card which opens to reveal…

a poem Superboy wrote about polar bears (in the style of Brown Bear, Brown Bear).

Here is some info on the science of snow crystals. He learned the molecular structure and the names of different crystal shapes.

underneath shows a snowflake he made (one of many!) and a chart of snowflake forms and a graph showing which shape forms due to temperature and humidity.

On the left is a study of all the symbols for St, Nicholas and on the right are the names and pictures of him from around the world.

On the left is some infor Superboy gathered on the Miraculous Staircase at Loretto chapel, said to be built by St. Joseph himself. On the right is a coloring page from the Jan brett site made into a pocket.

Inside the pocket are a booklet with facts about reindeer, and a cardboard cut-out of a reindeer (from Jan Brett, again) with the scientific name written on the back.