English - Surprise Visitor

 We welcomed a surprise visitor yesterday in year 2 to our English lessons- the visitor had been in to our classes and left some clues to their identity. After some great detective work looking at the clues we worked out that the visitor was a barn owl! We then found out a little about barn owls and wrote down some facts about them ready for our new book The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark. 











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