Exciting adventures!

This morning we saw that the pirates had taken the treasure we left for them - would they let Funky Monkey go?! We looked in the water tray and found... another message in a bottle!

The pirates had left us a map and a letter that said we could get Funky Monkey back if we followed their map!

We talked about what maps were and what they were used for and looked at the map from the pirates using the visualiser. We worked out which places were on the map - we could see the bark area, the playground, the school, the church, the car park and the garden!

We went outside and followed the map to find our first clue. It was in the bark area and it told us to walk through the trees and to the wooden doors, where we found another clue!

We followed clues around the bark area and across the playground, where we had to find the keys to a big metal gate!

When we'd opened the gate we had to walk down past Year 3 and 4's classroom and look in the windows to see a clue in Miss Worsley's office! The clue told us to go through the gate towards the church and look for a big cross.

At the monument we found another clue, which directed us to the school gardens. We checked the map to see where we were and then went into the gardens, looking for Funky Monkey!

We found a final clue that told us Funky Monkey was near water. We looked at the pond and saw this treasure box!

We looked inside and found... Funky Monkey! He had written us a note, thanking us for rescuing him and telling us that he'd stolen some treasure from the pirates! Inside the treasure chest were gold coins with chocolate inside - we enjoyed eating them!

We were very pleased to have Funky Monkey back and took him back to our classroom. Lots of us made up our own treasure maps this morning and talked about all the different things we'd drawn. Some of them had an X to mark the spot where our treasure is buried!