Age: 7-8 years

Duration: 50 min

Objectives

• Write a past-tense weekend journal with at least three events.
• Use verbs went, visited, played, enjoyed, watched in context.
• Peer-edit partner work for past-tense consistency and read one highlight aloud.

Vocab

• went / visited / enjoyed: "I went to the park." / "I enjoyed the movie."
• weekend / Saturday / Sunday: Time frame for journal.
• journal / entry: "A journal tells what you did."

Warm-up (5min)

Weekend chat pairs — 3 questions: "What did you do Saturday?" Answers in past tense only.

Main Activity (40min): "Weekend Journal Studio"

Model journal entry on board with date and 5 sentences (3 events + feeling + plan). Students draft journal — minimum 5 sentences, 3 past-tense verbs circled. Peer edit with checklist: past tense? capitals? periods? Partner reads favorite sentence to writer. Revision pass — fix two errors minimum. Author's chair: 5 volunteers read full entry (30 seconds each). Collect for portfolio — G2 writing sample.

Wrap-up (5min)

One sentence on sticky: "Next weekend I will ___." — future link to Lesson 02.

Teacher Tips

• Accept irregular past (went, had) as chunks — light correction on regular -ed only.
• Monday lesson works best — weekend is fresh; Friday use "last weekend."
• First sustained personal narrative — celebrate content over spelling.