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The plans for Jan Brett's **Gingerbread Baby** are attached to this post. In the plans, you'll find activities for the whole family in several different disciplines. There is some copywork and there are a coupld of activities (in green) which are for older kids. Then, in red, you can see how Kim Fry and Mary Chris Beardsley are rubbing off on me. We have a section call "Narration with Innovation" which are ideas on how to lapbook the assignments.
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2005-01-25_224649_Gingerbread_Baby_plans.doc
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Beautiful! I'm impressed by the quality and joy in the plan and outcome as well as the way this was all uploaded within this forum!
Excellent work, all!
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This is a beautiful project, and the photos really bring it to life in my mind. What a lovely keepsake for Mary Beth. With a bit of creativity, learning really can be fun.
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On the left, is Patrick'S pocket with trolls in it. Each of the trolls is folded. When you open the folded trolls you find his narrations of Scandinavian Christmas traditions. Above the pocket is a map showing the distnce to boy travelled from Oslo to Finnmark. The circles are polar bear facts from Enchanted learning.
There is a printout of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and to the right of that is a printout of an online tree decorating activity from the Jan Brett Site. Above the tree is the Gingerbread Babycircle story project. The right hand page holds a small book with the pictures from Brett'sThe Twelve Days of Christmas and the Christian symbolism narrations.
When the circle story flap is down, you can see the gingerbread man fold out with the story structure narration on it: conflict, rising action, climax, denouement.
This pocket is a graphic from The Wild Christmas Reindeer. It holds all of Patrick's narrations on reindeer.
Under this graphic of a Gingerbread house from the book is four pages with photos of Patrick constructing a gingerbread hose. He wrote a narration to go with it.
This shows the Saint Nicholas fan book, a very detailed narration of the life of Saint Nicholas.
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Bumping this up. My kids pulled out their lapbooks from this very complete adventure and were "oohing and aaahing" anew. This was time well spent last year!
Here are the plans for the rest of the books:
2005-11-25_144027_MyStNickplan.doc
2005-11-25_144042_Reindeerplans.doc
2005-11-25_144054_Twas_the_Night_Before_Christmas_plans.doc
Kim and I did this unit last year, co-opping long distance. She was nine months pregnant and hanging on for dear life, hoping that her dh would arrive safely from Iraq before his son made his entrance. It's been a joy and a warm afternoon of memories to look back on this unit.
This year, it's Tomie de Paola for us. But I do hope someone else enjoys Jan Brett. Please post your experiences!
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That Ginger Bread House is making me hungry...it looks good enought to eat! 
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Thanks Elizabeth and Kim for all the Jan Brett ideas. I have made plans for this year including Jan Brett, Tomie dePaola and a day of Max Lucado. My plans are much simpler than yours because my children are so young, but it was great to have so many ideas to choose from. I think we'll make a simple lapbook for Jan Brett too. (I love the pictures you posted.)
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These plans are all just precious and so thought out.  We savored all of Tomie de P. last year and have dived head long into the Jan Brett along with an in depth Scandinavian unit. Many thanks for sharing these beautiful plans for us at such a blessed time of year! The pictures are so fabulous and helpful as I tend to be such a visual person, and I can walk the kiddos right through with the pics. Have a fun advent and rabbit trail season! Thanks again
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Hi!
These plans look awesome and I am in them midst of trying to plan out Advent so we can enjoy them all!
My question is: How long does it take to get through these plans? I mean, take "Gingerbread Baby" for example. You read the book...then what? How much is done in one day? When is the whole study completed? When do you move to the next?
I am very curious as to how all of these studies are done, and how long it typically takes. Or, do you do more than one lesson/book at a time? 
I hope this all makes sense! Looking forward to your responses! Thanks and Happy Advent!
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Hi Charlotte, I'm so glad you found this thread, these plans are SOO fun, and to answer your questions, well it all depends...
We are on about week 2 and have worked through Gingerbread Baby, The Mitten, Hedgies Surprise, Christmas Trolls, and Trouble with Trolls. We're going to Lapbook Gingerbread Baby like Elizabeth did and then just do comparisons with the other Jan Brett books. We're also going to do some St. Nicholas, St. Lucia, the Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Guadelupe to mix in as well. My kids really want to do alot of baking so Gingerbread Baby is great for that and we'll probably finish up with Who's that Knocking on Christmas Eve and The Night Before Xmas and Xmas Reindeer. (This MAY take us into the new year). Our focus is also on the Scandinavian Traditions for Christmas this year so there will be a lot of geography and learning about how Jan Brett incorporates these touches in her books.
For me to have it be enjoyable and relaxed for Advent I really try and throw in a few surprises (think Magic Cabin craft items ) and settle into our faith and what advent means so it's not really a *subject*, it's just how we are living out our faith with alot of fun books to boot.
I know you'll get lots of great responses, I'm loooking forward to hearing them too! Have fun and enjoy it
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I just wanted to say thank you for the pictures!
I remember reading about lap books in Real Learning and wondering just what that meant. I have only seen one in person and it was not as creative as this one. I'm not ready for a Gingerbread Baby book, but I'll be applying the lapbook idea to our Black History Month/Civil Rights Movement unit.
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Elizabeth wrote:
This shows the Saint Nicholas fan book, a very detailed narration of the life of Saint Nicholas.
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Elizabeth, we are having sooo much fun with this for Advent this year and you have so many great ideas!! I was wondering if you'd mind sharing what picture you used for the St. Nicholas fan books?? As today is the Feast of St. Nick we are working on this part of our lapbooks and I can't seem to find any suitable artwork I have St. Nicholas the Wonderworker by Neuberger, but none of the illustrations are really what we're looking for. I sure appreciate any help on this and hope you don't mind sharing this as well
I look forward to you reply and hope you and your family are enjoying your wonderful de Paola unit, we absolutely LOVED it last year! Thanks again, so much.
Happy St. Nicholas day!
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Hey Meredith! I'm glad you're enjoying Jan Brett . The picture on the front of the fan book is a full-sized color copy from Jan Brett's Twas the Night Before Christmas. I laminated it to make it sturdier.
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Oh Elizabeth, you're awesome, and I actually HAVE that one sitting in our Jan Brett basket, silly me Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, and yes we are loving it!
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Elizabeth,
I was looking up the books for the Jan Brett study on Amazon and can't find "Twas the Night Before Christmas". It just says "The Night Before Christmas". Is that the same book?
Thanks so much for posting these plans. I just love Jan Brett's books. What ages is the study appropriate for?
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It's the same book.
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Two wonderful books on Scandinavia . . .
My mom bought me the Jan Brett Christmas collection a few years ago and we have LOVED lingering over its pages! I'm so impressed with the projects you are doing with this, maybe I can do something next year. This season I have a 6 month old teething baby, so . . . school, indeed LIFE, is cut down to a minimum for awhile.
BUT in light of the Jan Brett books I wanted to read something to my boys about Norway and Scandinavia, as my husband is 1/2 Norwegian and 1/2 Swedish. I found some wonderful books by the D'Aulaires, "OLA" and "CHILDREN OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS." These are out of print but I was able to find them used on Amazon for about 12 dollars each. They are WONDERFUL, evocative, beautiful, just so good!
Another book by the D'Aulaires which just came back into print is "Norse Gods and Giants." When my oldest son was 6 we checked this out of the library over and over again. I tried to find it used but the price started at about $150!! I was SO excited to see it back in print! He's getting it for a Christmas present this year :)
PS I'm new here, so glad to find this forum, will introduce myself up top.
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"herein antwerp" -- welcome and thanks for these great book suggestions. I'd forgotten about the D'Aulaire's Nordic books. And it's good to hear "Norse Gods" is back in print....
Welcome again!
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I second the welcome and a big thanks also for letting us know about the Nordic books, we LOVE the D'Aulaires and have read OLA but not the other two, since we're deep into Scandinavia I'm going to call the library this morning
P.S. Mary G. I also started a blog called "Sweetness and Light" on the Home School Blogger, I just haven't had a chance to add it to my signature line, I'm going to see your right now!
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What ages do you think this is appropriate for?
Thanks so much!
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