Seaside Scavenger Hunt

 

Sea of love.

This Scavenger Hunt was written especially for

Greystones South Beach.

 

We will choose only the things that we can collect

and return safely and without damage.

 

1. A small black pebble

2. A feather

3. A pebble with a hole in it

4. A mermaid’s purse

(dog fish egg case or whelk egg case)

5. A limpet (or part of)

6. A mussel (or part of)

7. A whelk (or part of)

8. Something beautiful

9. Some sea lettuce

10. A sea belt

11. Some bladder wrack

12. Something that makes a noise

13. A small white pebble

14. A pink flower

15. Something soft

16. A yellow flower

17. Something important in nature

(Everything in nature is important!)

18. A small grey pebble

19. Any part of a crab

20. Something that reminds you of yourself

21. A white flower

22. A sun trap (This is anything that captures the sun’s heat)

23. More than 100 of something!

24. Something that the sea has changed

25. A creature’s home (make sure it is empty).

26. Something round

27. A big smile

 

At the end we will leave what we have found on the beach.

We will:

‘Leave only footprints.

Take only memories’.

Seaside Scavenger Hunt

We are going on a Seaside Scavenger hunt.

We will be on the look out for seals,

or porpoise

or dolphins.

We will walk down towards

the Three Trout River and

on the way back we will look for;

 

1. A small black pebble

2. A feather

3. A pebble with a hole in it

4. A mermaid’s purse

(dog fish egg case

MERMAID'S PURSE
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or whelk egg case)

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5. A limpet (or part of)

Gizeh-sur-Mer
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6. A mussel (or part of)

mussles
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7. A whelk (or part of)

Neptunea sp.
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8. Something beautiful

9. Some sea lettuce

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10. A sea belt

Sea belt kelp on Traigh na Doirlinn
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11. Some bladder wrack

Bladderwrack in water
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12. Something that makes a noise

13. A small white pebble

14. A pink flower

15. Something soft

16. A yellow flower

17. Something important in nature

(Everything in nature is important!)

18. A small grey pebble

19. Any part of a crab

20. Something that reminds you of yourself

21. A white flower

22. A sun trap (This is anything that captures the sun’s heat)

23. More than 100 of something!

24. Something that the sea has changed

25. A creature’s home (make sure it is empty).

26. Something round

27. A big smile

 

At the end we will leave what we have found on the beach.

We will:

‘Leave only footprints. Take only memories’.

 

We also have plans for games with the parachute.

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We’ll have a sing song.

We will play circle games like

‘Ship’s cat and mouse’

‘Captain Black’s Magic Handshake’

Aye, aye Captain

Ship, sea, shore

and Sticky Toffee.

We have a message in bottle that we will throw into the sea.

Monochrome message in a bottle
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‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch

‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch
Good Morning!
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If sunlight fell like snowflakes,
 
gleaming yellow and so bright,
 
we could build a sunman,
 
we could have a sunball fight,
 
we could watch the sunflakes
 
drifting in the sky.
 
We could go sleighing
 
in the middle of July.
 
 
We talked the images in the poem
 
and about
 
what else might fall from the sky!

 

You can read about the ideas we had here.

 

Mumbling Bees by Daphne Lister

Bee Landing
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Mumbling Bees

by Daphne Lister

 

All around the garden flowers

Big velvet bees are bumbling,

They hover low and as they go

They’re mumbling, mumbling, mumbling.

To lavender and snapdragons

The busy bees keep coming,

And all the busy afternoon

They’re humming, humming, humming.

Inside each bell-shaped flower and rose

They busily go stumbling,

Collecting pollen all day long

bumbling, bumbling, bumbling.

 

Can you spot the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs?

 

Comprehension: Visualization + Making Connections – Summer Poems: ‘Summer Morning’ by Rachel Field + ‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch

Summer Morning

by Rachel Field

I saw dawn creep across the sky,

And all the gulls go flying by.

wham:a different corner
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I saw the sea put on its dress

Of blue midsummer loveliness,

The forest floor
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And heard the trees begin to stir

Green arms of pine and juniper.

I heard the wind call out and say:

‘Get up, my dear, it is today!’

 

Starburst and Beach Grass On Turquoise free creative commons
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Sunflakes

by Frank Asch

If sunlight fell like snowflakes,
gleaming yellow and so bright,
we could build a sunman,
we could have a sunball fight,
we could watch the sunflakes
drifting in the sky.
We could go sleighing
in the middle of July
The Bamboo Forest and some great Twitter Lists to follow
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through sundrifts and sunbanks,
we could ride a sunmobile,
and we could touch sunflakes—
I wonder how they’d feel.