This week we received some wonderful surprises from Miss Henderson!  We now have a rainbow coloured rug in our library and a magic cusion.  The magic cushion looks like a gigantic ladybird but it has a special secret… If you look inside there are lots and lots of baby ladybird cushions.  We love the new things for our library – thank you Miss Henderson! 

Logan brought in a Buzz Lightyear cushion from home for us to use in our library so we’d like to say a big thank you to Logan’s family too!

At the end of last term Ziggy and Zaggy gave us lots of traditional tales and this week we read Jack and the Beanstalk.  We have been very busy in class and have made a giant beanstalk for our library corner which goes all the way to the ceiling.  We also planted beans and we are having a competition in class to see whose beanstalk will grow the tallest.  We also planted a bean to look after at home.  Please remember to water your beans every day and put them near sunlight.

Our final clue arrived on Monday morning. There were 25 pieces of jigsaw that we had to join together to make a giant egg. On the egg was 6 numbers and the box had a combination lock on it. We had to figure out the code to open the box. Abbie guessed the right code – well done Abbie!

Inside the box was a collection of fairy tales for us to enjoy next term.

We were all happy to hear that Ziggy and Zaggy will be staying with us in class.

This week Mrs Jamieson found a clue and a map outside our classroom door.  We followed the map which led us to… another map!  There were 5 maps in total.

The final map led us to a Primary 4l and Logan’s big brother helped us search the classroom.  Carter found a key which opened our box.  Inside the box were slates from Victorian times. We all had a go at writing letters on the slates which was very tricky!

Mrs Jamieson then remembered that there was an old hand bell in the school.  It was very loud!  Mrs White came along to class and told us stories about the bell.  Thank you Mrs White.

If you know an interesting fact about schools in the past please let us know…

This week when we arrived in class we were upset to discover that Ziggy and Zaggy had disappeared!  Holly though she’d spotted their spaceship in the sky.  Then Miss Henderson arrived with the magic box and the next clue.  The clue told us to dig in the sand for the key.  The sand pit had thirty keys in it and we tried them all! 

Oliver had the last key which thankfully opened the box.

Inside the box we found Ziggy and Zaggy with some sweets.  The sweets were from the past.  Please help us find out about old fashioned sweets by completing our questionnaire. 

Thank you to all of the parents who told us about playground games last week.  We learned lots.  We had fun sorting photographs of playground games into ‘today’ and ‘long ago.’  This was tricky because some of the black and white photos were from today and we had to look for other clues.

This week Mr Welsh came into our class with a new clue. We had to unjumble some letters to find out where to go next. It was the office. Mrs White had our next clue which led back to Mr Welsh again. We found a box in a corner of his office. It had a padlock! Our key unlocked the box and inside was a time capsule. We have been busy drawing pictures and taking photographs to put in the time capsule.
The time capsule came from two aliens called Ziggy and Zaggy.

‘We found a treasure chest,’ said Demi-Leigh
‘I took a photo of Miss Bolland’s class,’ said Evie
‘I took a picture of Mr Welsh and Miss Henderson,’ said Kelsey
‘I love Ziggy and Zaggy and they’re the est aliens and they help us in class,’ said Freddie
‘I love Ziggy and Zaggy,’ said James
‘I love Ziggy and Zaggy, the best aliens in the universe,’ said Ellis
‘Ziggy and Zaggay are my friends,’ said Ben
‘Ziggy and Zaggay are brave,’ said Baillie
‘I was excited when Mr Welsh came in,’ said Eva