Sooty and Rudy were SO excited to arrive in Ash class safe and sound on Monday morning. Rudy had followed his compass south and managed to guide everyone to Year 2.
We were very excited to find them nestled under a white blanket they had found.
However when we were got back from assembly they were nowhere to be seen . . . the great hunt began.
Maria cleverly spotted Sooty investigating the snails - who of course come from Africa - nowhere near the North Pole. He even decided to go for a little ride - not quite the same as a reindeer but Slidey was very happy to help him out and Sooty didn't slide off him.
He wondered if Slidey would survive in the North Pole. What do you think?
Then Sooty had to answer all sorts of your questions in order to find out where Rudy was . . . he loves reading and was found looking for a book in the book corner!
Once we had them reunited they helped us about showing us some pictures of the Arctic.
We wrote lots of questions we wanted to ask them. Here is a selection we chose to put on the white board.
Rudy says: "I like to sleep in a big snow drift where I can snuggle down out of the wind. I like to stay with my whole herd of reindeer as we help keep each other warm. Please make sure I don't get lonely in Ash class. Maybe today I could play with Rocky? We will be very good!
Rudy says: I always goes to sleep first because Sooty tells me to, as soon as it gets dark!
Sooty says: It gets dark very early in the North Pole and in the winter the sun hardly gets to light it up at all. It could be dark by lunchtime -- so only 2 or 3 hours of daylight for the WHOLE day. But in the summer the sun is always up and then they hardly have any nighttime dark . . . I will make sure we look up more about the sun and night and day over the next week. Rudy will find a book to tell you all about this.
Sooty says : "The snow is VERY VERY deep, as deep as your house. It never melts in the North Pole. I want to know what is all the green stuff outside the window that you play with a ball on at playtime?"
Rudy says: My favourite animal is the polar bear as they make us all laugh! They look so funny as they try to run through the snow. They can be a big grumpy though so we make sure we are always very polite to them.
Rudy says: When we looked out of our Arctic Airways airplane we saw that Greenland was definitely not green! It looked all white and snowy -- a bit like the North Pole. I have just been looking in a book for you to find out why it is called Greenland and the answer is all colourful! A long time ago a viking called Eric the Red had to leave Iceland and he discovered Greenland . . . to make people want to come and live there with him he called it Greenland because it sounded a much warmer, nicer place to live . . . in fact it is all white except for a small part in the south in the summer which is green. I will show this to you on a map if you want me to show you. By the way Iceland is green lots of the time so I think everyone just got a bit muddled with their names.
Sooty says: No one really knows how old Santa and his elves are . . . they don't like to be asked how old they are! But someone told me he is over 1,000 years old! That is very old, but he doesn't seem to be that old it's just his beard gets a little whiter and longer every year. The elves just get a little naughtier and we have to watch out that they don't throw snowballs at us and knock our hats off!
