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Here are the pictures of Superboy’s Fairy Notebook. Notebooking is our way of gathering together and organizing work from a unit and we enjoy it immensely. Each notebook is different; it’s style and content varying according to the type of work produced during the unit.
Here is the cover. Superboy was trying to make it have the look and feel of the Spiderwick Handbook and I think he did a great job.

Open the cover and you see to the right the title page and to the left a pocket containing the splatter fairy art project cards.

Here is a closer image of the inside cover page with the pocket for the splatter fairies. They actually fit inside the pocket better than this, I just pulled them out a bit to show what was inside the pocket for the picture. Clip art of flower fairies decorates the side.

The next page is an activity from the Spiderwick website. It is a checklist for evidence of fairies around the home. The right side is a page with 2 riddles Superboy wrote. They should come in handy in case of a troll encounter.

The next page are two poems about fairies Superboy wrote, and decorated with flower fairy clipart.

This page doesn’t look like much, but I especially like it because I thought it was such a clever idea superboy had. It is a map of our property and if you hold it up to the light you can “magically” see images of various fairies “where they can be found.” He accomplished this by attaching small pictures of the fairies to the back of the map so that when you hold it up to the light you can see through the map paper and they become visible. Pretty neat, really.

The next pages are first just a pocket to hold the wood elf mask and the Sprite paper doll he made form the Spiderwick site. Second the essay he wrote entitled “Scary Fairies” about which fairy creatures he would least like to meet (troll, kelpie, and manticore).

The next two-page spread is his Jabberwocky comic. He typed out the poem, cut up the stanzas and then illustrated them comic-book style. This process really helped him to memorize the poem, which he was able to recite by the end of the week.

The next page holds his fairy dust picture. The directions for his project are on the Art Attack website. And beside that is his “Test of Faerie Knowledge” from the Spiderwick site. Shown is the first page of the test, which is 3 or 4 pages in length, and very cleverly done.

The last pages are a game downloaded from the Spiderwick site. On the left is the gameboard, which he printed up on cardstock, and on the right are an envelope holding the game’s playing cards and a little pouch holding the things he gathered to use as game piece: a tiny dried mushroom for the wood elves, a penny for the dwarves, a smooth stone for the trolls and a red glass gem for the children. The pouch can be removed and opened by untying the cord holding it into the notebook.

Other tings included in the notebook but not pictured here are photos of the Flower fairies he made as well as the fairie houses, definitions he wrote for the Jabberwocky nonsense words, and a printout of the fake Jabberwocky news article I wrote for him.
Other activities in this unit not included in the notebook are his readings of the various books on Fairies, such as the 5 Spiderwick Chronicals books ( and the “Notebook” and the “Field Guide”), the book “Fairyopolis” by Cicely Mary Barker, the Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (very interesting OLD fairy tales), and the book-on-tape of The Farthest Away Mountain by Lynn Reid Banks. He also did several of the writing activities in the Spiderwick Notebook.

I have to say that this was such a fun unit!

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