Step into the magical, heartwarming world of A Boy Called Christmas with our comprehensive literature study. This holiday homeschool resource offers an engaging and interactive way to explore Matt Haig’s charming origin story of Father Christmas.
Join Nikolas on his journey from Finland to Elfhelm as your child builds reading comprehension, writing skills, and critical thinking through a rich variety of meaningful activities. This novel study is designed to make learning feel joyful, approachable, and fun.
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Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldock
Way. I'm Jessica and today's video is
going to be a look inside our brand new
novel study, A Boy Called Christmas. For
this novel study, the only thing that
you will need is some sort of version of
the book A Boy Called Christmas by Matt
Hey. Whether you have the physical copy,
Kindle, ebook, audiobook, any of those
versions will work.
Inside the novel study, you're going to
find an overview, kind of plans, if you
will, of what you're going to be doing
for six weeks. It's going to tell you
what chapters to read each week and what
to do on each of the five days.
Then you're going to find
crosscurricular connections. This is one
of my favorite things. So, it is going
to give you at least two ideas for each
of the different subjects of how you can
bring this book to life. So, two ideas
for how you can bring it into the math
in your home school, extend writing,
extend social studies, science, art, and
music.
You're going to have your child jot down
quotes that they find interesting while
you're reading the book.
And then each week for the first five
weeks is going to be very similar. So,
you're going to have copy work with kind
of why we're teaching this passage as
copy work.
You're going to have some sort of
vocabulary,
some sort of creative writing
comprehension,
and then a summary of those chapters
that you've read.
So, here is an example of week two.
Again, you're going to have copy work
with why we're doing this passage, a
version of vocabulary,
a version of creative writing,
comprehension, which this one has some
true and false, multiple choice and
short answer,
and then a summary of that week. And so
weeks three, four, and five are going to
be very similar.
And then when you get to week six, that
is going to be a week in review. So
you're going to do some things that are
going to review the entire book. So you
have a word search, a word jumble,
designing your own book cover,
doing a page about the story setting.
You're going to draw a picture and then
describe it.
You're going to identify the theme of
the book and then give three supporting
examples for why that is the theme.
You're going to plot the story. So, the
exposition, rising action, climax,
falling action, and conclusion.
You're going to choose a character from
the book and do an in-depth character
analysis on them.
You're going to write a book review
that's going to be persuasive writing
while you either recommend or don't
recommend this book.
Then after watching the movie, you're
going to do a book and movie comparison.
And there are also some discussion
questions that you can do aloud with
your child.
Then there is a figurative language
activity.
One is going to be you finding some of
the figurative language in the book and
identifying it. Another is a hands-on
activity. So, you have these cards that
you will print out that have all the
different types of figurative language.
You will put those cards out and then
you will read the example from the book
and you will sort it accordingly.
The answer key is also included.
And then there are nine different
options for final projects for when you
have finished the novel.
And then there's also an answer key for
any of the pages
that there are predetermined answers
for.
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