It's here! Wonder Ponder's free downloadable 7-page Christmas wonderpondering booklet

It’s here! Our first (we are far from superstitious but have all our fingers and toes crossed in the hope that it is also our last) pandemic Christmas.

And following the now established tradition, we are sharing our Christmas Wonderpondering downloadable booklet for wondering, pondering, questioning and drawing about Christmas.

What should a good present be like? And what should it NOT be like? Could anything be a present? Do we all deserve presents? Could a broom be a good gift? A new cooking pot? A rifle? Does getting presents make us happy? What are enough presents and what are too many presents? Is a football pitch full of presents too many presents? Is a pair of socks enough of a present? ¿Would you give half your presents to a kid that didn’t have any?

If your answer is yes, would you open them beforehand, to see what they were and make a selection (this one’s for me, this one’s for him or her) or would you share them out, half and half, before opening them? Is one of the two options fairer than the other? If you would open them before in order to make a selection, what would you take into account when deciding, for each present, whether to keep it or give it to the other person?

TIME FOR PRESENTS is only one of the 7 pages from our special Christmas Wonderpondering downloadable booklet for thinking about Christmas. A gift in the form of a free, downloadable, printable and shareable PDF.

This year we have included a hidden pandemic question. Can you find it? There is a wee clue on the cover page.

The free downloadable resources we offer at Wonder Ponder take a very long time and to create and are fairly costly to produce.

It is our choice to make them available free of charge and we think it's great for them to be downloaded for free.

If, however, you would like to support our work and acknowledge the use and enjoyment you get out of our resources, you can make a voluntary contribution, that will help us to continue to create free resources and undertaking other projects such as our I, WONDER, SELF-INTERVIEWS UNDER LOCKDOWN project, where more than 100 people aged 5 to 18 took part and which has been read by hundreds of people.

Your contribution might reflect the price you think is fair for this particular booklet, or an amount for the booklets you have downloaded and enjoyed in the past and you suspect you will download and enjoy in the future.

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Another important way of supporting our work is downloading it for free and then sharing it on social networks. Thank you, whatever you decide!

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More than ever before, it's time to think about schooling and learning! Free downloadable booklet

Even since well before the pandemic, at Wonder Ponder we love thinking about all sorts of things. School and learning is one of our favourite things to think about and we often do so with children. We always have lots of fun and come up with excellent ideas for improving things about our own schools and our own learning. But we couldn’t have you all missing out on the fun!

So we decided to publish a  free, downloadable, printable and shareable booklet chock a block with ideas for thinking about school!

Ten pages, (ten!) full of questions and ideas for thinking about school aimed mainly at primary school age children, and teachers too!

An invitation to think about learning, about what makes a good teacher and a good student, about the perfect playground, the perfect classroom, the school of our dreams and the school of our nightmares. An “Interview your teacher” activity, ideas for writing a story or an essay or drawing something inspired by your thinking, and several real dilemmas we might encounter at school.

We also include a page for readers to add their own questions and drawings.

But you can add as many pages as you like. Yes! This is a booklet with room for growth!

How about a page with questions related to the issues brought about by the pandemic?

Click on the image above or here to download. 

This booklet is also available in Spanish.