21 Jan Year 4, Spring 1, Week 3
This week in Year 4, the children began writing diary entries to retell the story of ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’ by Jo Todd-Stanton. They used images and key vocabulary to create a story board, which they could then use throughout the week to help them remember the key events and the order of the story. They were focusing on using a range of –ed clauses as sentence starters and embellishing their descriptions.
Here is a snippet of Dexter’s amazing writing:
Dear Diary,
Sorry it’s been so long! The last few weeks have been crazy, adventurous and peculiar. Let me begin by explaining what happened on the day that the madness began. Early one gloomy morning, I opened my eyes and spotted a bright red light shooting through a tiny, narrow gap in my misty window. As I pulled back my leafy green curtains, I saw a devastating fire as hot as the sun. Heat. I could feel the boiling heat radiating against my skin. Shocked, I sprinted towards the flaming ball of fire.