Because we were quite a few children down due to illness, I pulled out this emergency NASA exercise which is predominantly about negotiating, with not a lot of writing involved. It's good for expanding vocabulary, though, and could work for a more serious literacy lesson as a launch for a science fiction narrative. You can download the exercise here: NASA Moon Landing. The children worked in groups of 3-4 and everyone was very engaged, and surprised by the actual answers in comparison with their own. Because marking is quite complicated and we didn't have much time, I told them just to award themselves a tick if their answer was two or less away from the real answer: this meant that it was easy to see who'd come closest without the trial of adding everything up.
As a final game I gave them each a pinch of words from this magnetic poetry set and challenged them to make the best sentence they could. This poetry set has come in handy for all sorts and I'd say it's a good investment if you're going to run a writing club. However, you could easily make your own from stiff card.
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