Digging up our time capsule

Way back on the 1st day of the 1st term in August, we made time capsules. You can read about it here.  This week it was time to dig them up!

Mrs MacNab tricked us - she wrote on the daily plan 'problem solving' and made us think we were doing maths! She gave us clues and told us we had to work together to solve the problem. When we realised it would lead us to the time capsule we got excited. Mrs MacNab said the noise level in the room kept getting higher and higher as we kept getting more and more excited!

Some people tried to get everyone to work together but it was difficult at first as everyone kept shouting out where they thought the time capsule was. Eventually the Mollys worked out how to solve some of the clues and James and Amy got people to take turns, and we quickly solved all the clues.

We headed out to the courtyard  and Kaitlyn showed us what pansies looked like. It didn't take us long to find them!

Then we had to solve another problem - how to dig up the time capsule without making a huge mess and killing the plants. Luckily the people in the gardening club knew where things were stored so we had the right equipment.

Back in the classroom we chose someone to open the parcel and then we all got our own time capsules to open.

It was very exciting. We couldn't believe how much we had changed! Even our writing had changed - at the start of P3/4 we didn't do joined writing and some people found it very hard to read their own writing from the start of the year.

Everyone had grown too! Look at how much taller some of us now - and how much bigger our hands and feet are.

Here's a short video of us digging up and opening the time capsules.