The tale of the missing lemur!

We came back from the half term break to find that something terrible had happened- our class puppet Louis the Lemur had been kidnapped!

The police came and taped up the crime scene and we put some missing posters around the school to let everyone know what had happened. The children had to become special officers for the week to help the police to find Louis.

Some footprints were found at the scene and the children went around looking for clues; more footprints were found by gate and it looked something had been digging under the fence.

We made the role play area into a police station and the children were able to write incident reports, take fingerprints of suspects, make badges and write up speeding tickets. We also added some equipment that police offers might use for the children to enhance their play, walkie talkies, magnifying glasses, torches, police hat and jackets.

On Wednesday we received a note...

 All of the clues contained positional language and the children worked together to find the next clue...

We followed the clues and thought we would find Louis, but when we got to the end we found another letter.

Now we knew who had taken Louis, the children made some brilliant wanted posters.

On Thursday some witnesses came in for questioning, the children came up with some great questions.
"Did you see Louis?" "Do you know who took him?" "Where is Louis?" "Did you see any footprints?"

Some of the children even made traps for the big bad wolf in the outside area.

On Friday we finally solved the crime. There was a knock on the door, it was the Big Bad Wolf and he had something for us. It was a postcard from the islands of Fiji from Louis! He had not been kidnapped at all, he went on holiday! He said he was having a lovely time and would be back on Monday to tell us all about his trip. Thank goodness he is ok!