Something strange in the neighborhood...

 We couldn't believe our eyes when we came into class this morning! The children found two large footprints, clumps of fur, bitten paper and a sack labeled 'Sam's stuff'.  It was very unusual.

After a thorough investigation, the children decided that the footprints were too large to be human prints and that whatever it was must have got into our classroom last night and left their sack by mistake. Further investigations found more clues as to what the creature could be. There were claw marks, moss and leaves in a large hole in the woodland where the children thought the creature may have slept and what looked like part of a creatures tooth. 

 

When we returned back to class and opened up the sack, that had been left, we discovered more clues about who the creature could be. There was a sandwich, a strawberry, a story and a letter 's'. The children noticed that all the objects inside the sack started with the 's' sound and that the sack must belong to Sam and he must like things that start with 's'. We decided to read the story inside the sack, it was called 'Where the wild things are'. The children noticed that the 'Wild things' in the story had some of the same features as whatever had been in our classroom and that maybe it was a 'Wild thing' that had been to visit. We decided to help Sam by sorting objects for him that start with the 's' sound. 

The children decided that they would like to make a trap incase he comes back tonight, I hope it works!