Otto's Terrible Day...

Well, it’s been another adventurous few days in Otters class. (And Foxes but Mrs Lewis will tell you all about that later!)

As we were getting ready to visit the ICT suite on Friday morning a very unusual visitor stumbled into Otter’s room. She introduced herself as Mrs Hook and told us some very worrying news. As we were all sleeping in out beds Mrs Hook’s husband, Captain Hook, had snuck into our classroom and kidnapped Otto!!

We were outraged! Mrs Gent was incredibly worried as she was planning on taking Otto to Prague with her as a mascot for her marathon.

Mrs Hook told us how she had heard her pet parrot squawking the words ‘’they’ve got the string, they’ve got the string’’ and suddenly realised that her pirate shipmates had tied Otto to the top of their mast. She knew we were wonderful writers and wondered if we could convince Captain Hook to send Otto back to us.

Well, of course we were going to help Mrs Hook send Otto back! All thoughts of our ICT learning had gone out of the window. In our talk partners we devised ways that we could release Otto. Archie helped us to remember that we needed to release Otto with our writing not our fighting.

We could write a letter. We had lots of ideas of who to write to; we know that we have lots of friends in Neverland. We helped Miss Sullivan to write to Peter Pan asking for help…some of us decided that we wanted to write to Tinkerbell to see how she could use her magic to aid us. The Rainbow Fish and the Kippers were feeling brave and decided to write to Captain James Hook himself to persuade him to send Otto back to us.

The Elmers labelled our Map of Neverland with the features of the landscape…just in case we were feeling brave enough to travel there ourselves.

Mrs Hook gave us some very important information. Letters aren’t sent by post in Neverland but by bottle. We had to roll up our letters (tricky for little fingers) and sprinkle some fairy dust into the bottom of the bottle before sealing it with a magic thought. We then of course had to label them so that the fish knew where they were to be delivered.

In the afternoon Mrs Gill popped into our classroom and was instantly surrounded by the otters retelling their very exciting morning. ‘’We met a pirate who had your hair’’ said Erin.

Mrs Gill must’ve been feeling brave because she suggested that she followed the Elmers map with all of the Otters to rescue Otto themselves. The Otters didn’t take much convincing.

They carefully carried their messages and followed the map to Peter Pan’s tree house where they left their messages for Wendy to float in the sea. They followed the map past Mermaid Lagoon and realised that to have a good view of the pirate ship they would have to first scale the mountain. From the top they had a good vantage point and Otto was clearly seen hanging for the mast by his tail.

The brave little Otters snuck past the snoring pirates and valiantly freed Otto from his otherwise terrible fate.

Mrs Gent was terribly pleased to see him back. After having lots of cuddles and friendly reunions with his Otter pals Otto was ready and raring to travel to Prague for his next adventure.

….Now we have to sort out Captain Hook’s ransom demand before he realises we released Otto. He has asked for more weapons so that he can fight crocodiles. I somehow think this will be an easy task for the children in Otter’s class…