Imaginative writing

Until the end of this term and the start of the next, we are looking at Narrative Writing. We are learning how to use our imagination to create a story with a beginning (Setting), middle (event and problem), and end (resolution and ending). 

Today we started by talking about what is fact and what is fiction. As we had just studied report writing we knew there were facts about caterpillars that we could share.  We brainstormed our ideas here before watching the video story - The Very Hungry Caterpillar. As we watched we had to think about how the author used his imagination to change the facts about caterpillars to make his story. 

Here we are watching the story. You can watch it too.

Click here... The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle  

After the video, we talked about what we noticed. We decided that the author imagined the caterpillar eating food that caterpillars would not usually eat. Caterpillars don't eat chocolate cake and lollipops.

Our task today for writing was to draw a picture of the Hungry Caterpillar eating our favourite food. Some of us wrote about cotton candy, some about cake and fruit, and others wrote about lollipops.


Here we are working hard at the tables.