"One day, I'm going to India!"

This week, we have been learning more about India.

Gareth from our school, came into the classroom to talk about her childhood growing up in India. She brought in some Indian objects and one of them was made from ivory, an elephants tusk. Elephants are looked after now and no one should hunt them.

Using Google Earth, we have compared maps of both India and the UK and looked at the different regions of India. We have learnt that the Himalayas are the biggest mountains in THE WORLD! and that The Ganges river begins in the Himalayas and flows into the rest of the country. We have compared the Ganges to The Thames river, in London.

On Tuesday, we went for a walk around the local area, looking at the attractive and unattractive features and comparing them to a small village in South India, Chembakoli. We then made our own map of the area, creating our own map symbols.

We have enjoyed spending some 'chill - out' time in the Indian role-play area. Here we are, dressing up in the many colourful Saris and Indian costumes that some of the parents have been kind enough to supply.

We have made our own Indian Rangoli designs from coloured rice, lentils, sand, glitter and chalks. Miss Welton was so pleased with our work and the way that we work so carefully and tidily, that she asked Mrs Roberts to come into the classroom and look at the Rangoli patterns and at some of the paintings of India that we had created.We also wrote some sentences about one of our favorite things about India. Some of us wrote about the Peacock, the National bird of India, some of us wrote about the Taj Mahal, a temple of love. There were lots of different things to learn about the country and we are going to invite the parents into the classroom so that we can share what we have learnt.

Because we had got all of the 'sweets' in our jar, on Friday we had a pyjama party during Golden Time. We put on our pyjamas and dressing gowns and sat cuddling our toys while we sipped hot chocolate and ate delicious cookies. Miss Welton put on her dressing gown and read us a story by one of our favorite authors, Roald Dahl. As the story is read, there are no pictures to look at so we have to sit quietly and use our imaginations, which we all really love to do! 'It's like disappearing into a different world!'

Next week, we are looking forward to trying some Indian foods and doing some Indian dancing and singing.

Some busy weeks we have had.... (written by the children)

We made a toy museum of old-fashioned toys and new toys. We opened the museum and showed our parents around. Everybody welcomed them and Emily gave out the tickets which cost 10p (not real money). Mrs Roberts came too and she was shown around the museum by Austen.

On Friday, Year 1 made a spell and tried to turn Professor Snape into a frog. Our spell had dragon tears, rat pooh, frogs eyes, monster toes, dog bone, lizard tongues and gold dust. Domi and Aaron held the caudron and stirred it. Our amazing spell really worked! Professor Snape went 'ribbett!' and lost his voice!

Here we all are writing up the spell.

We made some Stain-glass window biscuits which are really christmassie and tasted yummy! In our classroom we are getting ready for Christmas and practicing for the nativity next week.

We are back! (Emily) (written by the class)

Before the holidays we had our Recycling Fashion Show. We were fantastic at making our costumes and the grown-ups came to see our show.

It has been a busy week. We have been learning rhyming words in Literacy.In number work we have been sorting information into groups and practicing our doubles to 10.

We have made footballs to show the goals that we want to get better at. We are going to display them in the classrooom.

We had a disco and dressed up and danced all night. Ethan and Elif had a competition to see how long they could hold their breath.

When we came into the classroom there was a Toy Shop as we are going to be learning about old-fashioned toys this term.

A musical Week (written by Year 1)

We have had a musical week of dancing fun, singing and listening to different types of music. For our dance workshop, Rachel taught us how to warm up and 'get your blood moving around' (Lainnie) Here we are learning some Street Dance sequences. Some of us may go to the Street Dance classes.

We had a man called Celsa, from Mozambique, South Africa, playing the drums, singing and telling us stories about African animals. We joined in with the drumming.

We had extra Golden Time this week for winning the Golden Lunchbox and for being good at lunchtime. This makes us all feel happy and Miss Welton is very proud. We are looking forward to our Recycled Fashion show next week.

Playspace! (written by the children)

We went on the coach to Playspace. We were very excited and loud!




We drew and coloured plates of healthy food.

Here we are sitting quietly, listening to the lady.

Yee - Ha! Here we are going down the slide (AImee).

Everyone had a medal.

Here are the people who got the prizes for the pedometer challenge and healthy eating plates.

We had lots of fun at Playspace.

A Load of Old Rubbish...

This week, we had a visit from Heather. Heather is the Caretaker of our school and she told us what happens to the recycling that we do in the classroom and how our fruit waste becomes compost. She works hard to make sure that everything that we recycle gets taken to the right place.

We've been using our imaginations to think of interesting characters and settings for stories. Liam invented a story about Miss Welton climbing up a beanstalk in the allotment and finding a magic key to rescue us all! What a fantastic imagination Liam has got!

Because we got all 16 (pretend) sweets in our class jar, at the end of the week,we wanted to have a fancy dress party as a treat. The classroom was filled with lots of interesting characters! There were 3 Batmen and even a Batgirl!.

We had some party food and played some party games and had a really fun afternoon. When we get another 16 sweets in the jar, we have decided that as a treat, we will bring in our own toys to play with during Golden Time.

An Exciting Week In Year One... ( written by the class)

We went for a trip to the allotments to look for things that were recycled. We found lots of recycled things; milk cartons, CDs, recycled fruit and vegetables to make compost, we even saw a recycled bath being used to keep the rain water in!


There was a scarecrow wearing recycled clothes. It was a lovely, beautiful sunny day.



Here we are, the Year One, Recycling Fun Band, practising for our assembly next week. We are using instruments made with recycled materials, like tin cans, pots and pans, lids and beads.



Miss Welton was very pleased with our quiet reading this week. Here are the Moon group reading so beautifully on the cushions, they didn't even know that the picture was being taken!

It has been a fun and exciting week.