Learning About Snakes - A Gail Gibbons Notebook Companion™
It’s time to discover some amazing facts about snakes with Learning About Snakes. It’s a great way to introduce your kids to some of the many kinds of snakes in the world and how each type is unique. You don’t have to mess with prep work. Just get a copy of Snakes (sold separately) and Learning About Snakes and follow them together at a pace that fits your family.
The book and Notebook Companion™ look at where in the world snakes live, their habitats, the parts of a snake, how snakes move, how snakes find and eat their prey, common types of harmless snakes, some types of venomous snakes, some types of constrictor snakes, what enemies snakes have, the life cycle of a snake, how snakes survive in cold weather, and more!
Students will practice written narration as they answer our open-ended questions about what they are learning. They’ll also get to draw, sketch, and label various illustrations of the parts of a snake, kinds of snakes, and much more. Bonus coloring pages are also included!
Snakes by Gail Gibbons
Our publisher-approved Notebook Companion™ accompanies Snakes by Gail Gibbons.
Did you know there are around 3,000 different kids of snakes? Gail Gibbons brings snakes to life in this colorful book full of facts and colorful illustrations.
Discover how snakes live and give birth, what and how they eat, and more in Snakes by Gail Gibbons.
Snakes is a required book for our Notebook Companion™ and is sold separately. Snakes by Gail Gibbons is available at the publisher’s website or anywhere books are sold.
Beginner’s Notebook Companion™
This beginner’s notebook is a great way to introduce kids to the idea and practice of notebooking, and you can customize it as much as you wish. It’s completely flexible, allowing for use with very young children through middle elementary grades.
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Denise Rodriguez –
We love the Gail Gibbons books so much we have all the notebook companions. Never did I think we would be learning about snakes. This was such a valuable book for our homeschool curriculum. I have been fearful of snakes my whole life, teaching my children about snakes really taught them they are nothing to be feared. The book does a great job of educating a child about snakes in a positive light. I loved the sections to draw/color snakes in the notebook companion. The information follows along with the book wonderfully. The coloring pages were a favorite for the kids!
Tamara Lowrey –
The book “Snakes” by Gail Gibbons is easy enough to read through in one sitting but has multiple levels of information that can be enjoyed by many age groups. Both my daughter (8) and my son (3) were engaged by the detailed-watercolor illustrations and we had lively discussions about where snakes live, how they kill their prey, and the differences between venomous and nonvenomous snakes.
The Learning About Snakes notebooking pages required my daughter to recall some of the facts we had read about and to go back to the book to look up the ones she didn’t remember. I thought this was great because we don’t use textbooks in our homeschool, so she hasn’t had a lot of opportunities to develop this skill yet. The notebooking pages also have the student draw some of the specific snakes and give a description. I delighted in seeing my daughter open the book and use the illustrations as a reference, making an effort to be accurate. The best part was that she didn’t seem to notice that she was doing ”school work” and I didn’t get the sighs or complaints that often accompany copywork and other similar activities. We did 2 of the 58 sheets and counted science done for the day.
The notebooking pages also include some fun coloring pages so my youngest learner was able to participate, too.
Katherine Tanyu –
I have always avoided the “snake” part in the encyclopedia because just looking at pictures of them makes me squeamish! I guess this notebook companion and notebook is for the budding herpetologist. Your child will learn all about snakes–how they move, their habitat, and the different kinds. There is also the “fun facts” section where your child can draw more about them. I appreciate the “note to parents” included in the first few pages about parts we might want to skip over. I love how this animal is presented in the book–a good way to learn about this often misunderstood/feared reptile in a friendly/scientific setting.