Where the Forest Meets the Sea: 1

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It's a fun story to read aloud and we enjoyed reading it together and pointing at all the interesting details we saw in the picture. A boy goes on a boat trip with his father to a remote reef, where he wanders through the unspoilt rainforest, imagining the animals and people who have lived there.

Now considering that rainforests the world over are often if not generally fragile and threatened nowadays, I really do hope that NONE of the collected and preserved natural materials have come from the area (from the rainforest) being depicted and described in Where the Forest Meets the Sea (however, I do have the uncomfortable and sad sneaking suspicion that this might very well be the case, that Jeannie Baker might have, indeed, and likely willingly, knowingly used collected and preserved rainforest materials for her collages, which would be a major bone of contention and ecological no-no with and for me). Play a game of telephone and discuss how stories that are passed down can be changed and adapted over time. A great book is always a fantastic place to start when planning an integrated learning experience for your students, after all, books are familiar andengaging.Still, it's definitely a worthwhile read if you're a fan of Baker's work and/or looking for a book on modern Australia that doesn't focus on kangaroos and koalas!

I found this to be the interesting part as the individual chooses what they value and which scene is more important to them. Through the use of ghostly images, the reader is sent on a mission to find the previous creatures that once lived in the habitat, highlighting how human activity has changed the landscape.As with her other fiction picture books, she includes an author’s note at the end where she shares a bit about the environmental peril we’re in, in this case the wet tropical rain forest wilderness and Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The teenager has a slight breakdown when he realises there’s no telephone service in the area and even the people who live in town can’t use mobiles. This is like a Disney movie come to life; schools of vividly coloured fish disperse as a shark glides by and when we spot a green sea turtle, estimated to be 100 years old, the kids alternate between squealing and awed silence.

Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. With many years’ experience developing educational materials for print and online publishing, Kerstin aims to use her editing and writing skills to produce engaging and user-friendly content across all our platforms.She has an insatiable appetite for books (especially children’s books) and looks forward to sharing her passion with students and families, ‘hooking’ them into books and the joy of reading.

Give each group a page from the book and ask them to think about the sounds that you might be able to hear.The environmental message here is even more obvious than some of Baker's other works, but any preachiness is redeemed by the gorgeous art. You want to put your hand on the pages and feel the different textures, except it is just normal paper. The purpose of the game is to teach others about the Daintree Rainforest, as well as promote its conservation.