Friday

The Owl and the Pussycat S10 Write a diary entry.

Task 1

Share the power point presentation, How to write a fantastic diary entry. 

Task 2

Building on yesterday’s activity, pretend to be the Owl or the Pussycat and collect ideas about what happened one particular day.

• What might you have done on that day?

Maybe you caught some fish, ate the last of the honey, rode on the shell of a turtle, sailed through a storm, or met mermaids or pirates?

• Where were you?

Maybe you were in your comfortable pea green boat, on a sandy beach, in the warm sea, on a friendly pirate ship or a mermaid’s rock?

• What could you see?
• How did you feel?
• What happened first, next, after that?
• How did you feel when…?

 

Jot your ideas down.

 

Task 3

Using your jottings, write your diary entry. 

 

Use this Diary Writing Checklist:

 

•   Include the date the diary was written.
•   Write in the past tense.
•   Use the words ‘I’, ‘my’, ‘we’, and ‘our’.
•   Describe your feelings.
•   Write about the (important) events in the order they happened.
•   Use time linking words, like ‘first’, ‘next’, ‘then’.
•   Talk about where events happened.