The Cookie Thief Mystery!

This week was “I Love To Read” week at our school.  There were activities throughout the week like mystery readers, DEAR time, and the cookie thief mystery.  I set up the mystery in the library for the whole school to participate in.  The idea was for each class to come to the library for a special story on pyjama day with Mrs. Z, our school librarian.  After she read “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” by Laura Numeroff, she would give each child a cookie, but someone stole the cookies!  The students had to follow the clues, which lead them around the school, examine the three suspects fingerprints and determine who stole the cookies.  One student wanted to call the police!

 

When they solved it they marched down to the office to confront our principal to find out why she took their cookies!  Of course she played along and told them that she had to make sure that they were nut free. 🙂 She then gave every student a cookie.

             

The Super Kids loved the activity and it sounded like everyone else in the school did too.  You could hear students running around the school solving riddles and rushing to the office to confront the principal.  Thank you to the amazing middle school teachers who helped create clue that would challenge the older kids in our school.  When we got back we took time to examine our own fingerprints and to determine if we were a loop, whorl, or arch.  We even found a cookie themed movement break on the Gonoddle website.

DEAR time could happen anytime, so we were prepared.  As soon as Mr. Baker, our vice principal, announced it was DEAR time we dropped everything and read.

 

  

This coming week is very busy!  It is French week at our school so we will be participating in many activities including a music guest on Monday, dressing like a voyageur on Tuesday, pancake snack on Wednesday, craft day on Thursday, and winter fun activities on Friday!  In the middle of all that there is Valentine’s day on Tuesday and the 100th day of school on Thursday.  We may need oxygen at the end of it all!  The kids can’t wait and to be honest, I can’t either!   🙂

 

 

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