Thank you to all of our families who came to our first Reception parents Literacy workshop. We hope to see you all again next week for our second session! #smithdowneyfs #smithdownreaders
We really dressing up and getting in role as Little Red and the Wolf #smithdownreaders
This morning we found some treasure chests in our room. We found some clues about our new story. #smithdownreaders @misshath2 @SmithdownPr
On Friday we put Anna and Crocodile in the hot seat #smithdownreaders @clpe1
We worked in teams to make a better map than Anna and Crocodile #smithdownreaders #smithdownwriters
We retold the model text. We used picture clues to help. We are ready to write our own circular story now #smithdownwriters #smithdownreaders
For Remembrance Day, we read the poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and after discussing the content, we embellished the poem with images of poppies.
We have printed trains with blocks and made marks to represent train track, trains and signals.
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We have thoroughly enjoyed reading Neil Gaiman’s version of Hansel and Gretel, so much so, it led us to writing our own dual narratives. We are so proud of the writing we have produced.
This week we have been working hard with our friends to put our Supertato story pictures into the correct order.
To celebrate the end of learning of Goldilocks and The Three Bears we hosted our own Teddy Bears Picnic. We had party food and danced with our teddies. We had a wonderful afternoon!
This week we have been looking at the story ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. Outside we built a bridge to cross to the green grass. We made signs for the goats from the troll showing they can’t cross the bridge.
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We have learnt all the Makaton signs for the animals in our story and then used them to retell the story.
We retold the story in teams and performed the story to our friends.
We are enjoying our new phonics groups and have worked so hard on our fluency this week.
Today we made our own maps in preparation for our instruction texts. We had to think carefully about where the gold was hidden and then give our partner instructions to find it.
We went on a noun hunt and then acted out verbs to help us to identify the difference between the two.
Anna and Crocodile asked us for our help today. We thought about how to make a sandwich, created some plans, made some sandwiches and of course had to taste test them! Yum yum!
After researching mountain gorillas and adaptions of animals, we have just begun to write our own explanation texts. Keep an eye out for the finished pieces.
We simply had to share a few more pieces of work as we think they are truly fantastic! Detailed information which is extremely well presented. Great work Year 6!
Today we have looked at different poems for national poetry day!
In Geography, we have been finding out about renewable energy sources: why they are needed alongwith the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Author of ‘The late crew’ Rob Ferguson came to visit our school today. Some of us were so excited to even get our books signed by a real life author! We even designed our own alien that we could use in our stories. 
We found some items in our box to help us with predicting what our new class text is about.
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We are enjoying sharing the story of The Gruffalo this week! We have painted The Gruffalo and are describing The Gruffalo as part of our literacy and writing about what we can see. We also shared The Gruffalo song 🎵 and below is a link to share this at home.
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We came back into our classroom and found that someone or something had been in there! We looked at the disaster that had been left behind and asked questions about what we thought had happened!
We found
– a globe
– a map
– broken biscuits
– teapot and cups
– footprints
and…. a lot of mess!!
We really enjoyed listening to the story of The Lonely Beast. We acted out different parts of the story and retold the story to each other
Yesterday we had a great time at the International Slavery Museum. We had a workshop in the ‘legacies of the transatlantic slave trade’ and then had time to explore the museum with our task sheets. 
We have just started work on writing our own dual narratives, based on the characters and events in Neil Gaiman’s Hansel and Gretel. Such powerful openings! We can’t wait to get writing more, they will be incredible to read.
For our PSHE lesson we are celebrating differences. In previous weeks we have spoken about racism, bullying and rumours and now we are researching a range of countries and what their culture looks like.
We really enjoyed writing these dual narratives in Year 6, we used two characters from the book we read together in lessons. We hope you enjoy reading them.
The Reception children of RAG have enjoyed listening to the marvellous Christmas story, ‘The Polar Express’. They even managed to retell the story in sequence, from start to finish, using pictures. Well done!
We used role play to decide if the witch from our class text should give back the stolen happy endings. We thought of lots of reasons for and against.
We have looked through all our clues for our upcoming book… Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. We will be discussing new vocabulary such as racism, segregation, civil rights, controversy and many more! 
This week we are sharing the story of The Snowman in Reception. Here is a link if you would like to share the story at home. ⛄️
https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/snowman-eng.pdf
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Before we begin writing our own diary extracts, we read and annotated a model text for language and organisational features.
We discovered some clues to our new story today! We made predictions and discussed if the clues reminded us of any other stories too.
