Visitors from Outer Space

Last week the Foxes and Otters had another unexpected visitor. As the Otters were rehearsing their lines for the Christmas play a very confused and startled alien stumbled into the room.

We were very surprised and asked our visitor to tell us who he was. When the alien started to talk we were shocked that he had a similar voice to our very own Mrs Sturrock. Eagle- eyed Mateo noticed that he not only sounded like Mrs Sturrock but he was wearing the very same watch. Lucas told us that all aliens must be from Scotland. Cameron pointed out that Scotland isn't another planet.

Our alien visitor found this conversation very funny and told us that Mrs Sturrock must be very beautiful. He introduced himself and told us why he was here. His name was Mango Fandango from the faraway planet Wango. He had heard that we were putting on a Christmas play and had only just got here in time to watch it. His alien friends were on their way in their much slower spaceship. They would take an hour to get here.

The Otter children were very worried. They knew that our Christmas play wasn't happening on that day at all. They had to quickly think of a way to let Mango know that he had the wrong day and quickly get the message to the other aliens before they landed in the staff car park.

We decided that the best way to give all of the information to the aliens would be to write invitations. We remembered writing invitations to Otto's birthday party and knew 
that if they wrote them properly the aliens would have all of the information that they needed.

In their talk partners the children listed everything an invitation would need and helped me to write an example. I was very excited by our surprise visitor and kept making very silly mistakes like writing from the right hand side and forgetting finger spaces. I was very glad I had some expert writers at hand to calm me down.

The children were incredibly busy writing their invitations and even taught Mango how to write like humans do. He was very interested in our finger spacers and particularly liked the way Jack stored his on the end of his pencil until it was needed. He even helped Christopher to count the number of words in his sentence.

After writing our invitations we were a little concerned about how to get them to the spaceship before the other aliens landed and felt disappointed that they had wasted a long and tiring journey to  Earth. Luckily, Mango Fandango told us that aliens spaceships have a very high-tech laser system which allows them to beam up important mail, all the children had to do was close their eyes and picture the aliens and they would receive the message.

With that, Mango Fandango left for her very own private spaceship with the promise that he would be back on the right day now that he had all of the information. Wednesday 3rd December, 09:30, in the school hall.

When Mrs Sturrock came back from her meeting with Mr Chapman she was extremely jealous that she hadn't got to meet this visitor from outer space. Now she knows how I felt when I never met Mummy pig!

Maybe you too will catch a glimpse Mango Fandango when you come to watch our Christmas performance.

The Foxes had their own unexpected alien visitor too... this time it was Splodge from the planet Plodge...who looked remarkably like Mrs Balmer!