This writing challenge kick-started the new term for 2013.
The class teacher had informed us that the new topic would be WW2 and therefore
I wanted to incoporate a link to this topic. I decided upon using 'Bambert's
Book of Missing Stories', an extremely intriguing book that I hoped would spark
interest and curiosity among the children.
The book is about an elderly man called Bambert who lives alone in his attic and writes stories. He sends these stories out into the world by attaching them to paper balloons which fly off into the night. He hopes that they will return from around the world where the stories may find their true setting. The stories he sends are basic, just centred on characters, therefore he includes the setting once they have been returned.
I supplied the children with an extract from one of Bambert's stories attached to a paper balloon. The extract allured to children being walked by 'angels fo death' in the freezing cold wearing nothing but ragged pyjamas.
The challenge was to imagine they had found Bambert's story attached to the paper balloon and re-write it to include an appropriate setting. They could add further detail or even change parts of the story if they wished. They could then attach their story to a paper balloon and send it back to Bambert to read!
The challenge was very well recieved and the class teacher commented on how much the children had enjoyed creating the setting to Bambert's story.
The book is about an elderly man called Bambert who lives alone in his attic and writes stories. He sends these stories out into the world by attaching them to paper balloons which fly off into the night. He hopes that they will return from around the world where the stories may find their true setting. The stories he sends are basic, just centred on characters, therefore he includes the setting once they have been returned.
I supplied the children with an extract from one of Bambert's stories attached to a paper balloon. The extract allured to children being walked by 'angels fo death' in the freezing cold wearing nothing but ragged pyjamas.
The challenge was to imagine they had found Bambert's story attached to the paper balloon and re-write it to include an appropriate setting. They could add further detail or even change parts of the story if they wished. They could then attach their story to a paper balloon and send it back to Bambert to read!
The challenge was very well recieved and the class teacher commented on how much the children had enjoyed creating the setting to Bambert's story.
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