Friday, February 07, 2014

Our Magic Beach

As the summer school holidays have come to an end we thought it would be appropriate and most applicable to bring about a class discussion based around one of the most popular activities to do on summer holidays, the beach! I couldn't think of a more enticing and exciting beach orientated story book than Alison Lester's 'Magic Beach'. I love how this book encourages the students to use their imaginations in their own writing. What better way to describe a wave than "Wild white horses thundering past, racing to get to the land. plunging and prancing and tossing their heads, then fading away on the sand".


After exploring this wonderful story the class discussed their favourite beach adventure or something they like to do at the beach. We  then took it a step further and we used our imaginations to create a movie in our minds about the beach. The students were given the task to create a piece of writing about their magic beach and after drafting and editing a final class book was created entitled 'Our Magic Beach'.



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  1. Angus and Ewans Mum (aka Jody Fletcher)8 February 2014 at 07:15

    This book is amazing, such fantastic illustrations and story! BV have certainly used their imaginations about what they do at the beach! Sharks seem to be a common theme, though!!!

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  2. Anonymous28 February 2014 at 13:59

    Hi 2BV it looks like you're having fun! In our class we are making commercials. My commercial is about Lego .
    from Allegra's brother Noah

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