Diary Writing and Recounts

Recounts

This is one of my favourite Year 1 topics! Thanks to Hamilton Trust again! The story is very cute and the children find wombats hilarious! 

It is a great time for learning the days of the week and discussing personal experiences.

Adjectives

The children draw a wombat in the middle of their page and then we have a lively discussion about how to describe our wombat. We end up with words like hungry, sleepy, furry, cute, chubby etc.

Children then write sentences using their adjectives. 

Writing a diary

We discuss how we use our school diaries and why they are useful to us. We sing songs about days of the week. We create our own diaries by adding the things we do on a particular day of the week.

Writing a recount

Next on the agenda in this topic is writing our own recounts of a day out the children have experienced. We start by watching Wallace and Gromit in A Grand Day Out.

Then we set about thinking and discussing any memories we have about days out. Finally we write up our recount about our day out.