| The Kissing Hand book is read the first day and Chester the Raccoon | visits the class. |
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| First day photos! |
| Our Pirate Unit Begins . . . |
| How many jewels will your pirate ship hold? |
| Look at the jewels on my pirate ship! It is not sinking! |
| Investigating the snails... |
| Roll the cube color a block on the recording sheet of the picture on the top of the cube. I wonder which pirate item will race to the top. |
| I wonder how many pieces of gold goes on this treasure chest. |
| Meet Blackbeard, Polly the Parrot and Timmy the Turtle! Blackbeard showed the class something about pirates each day. We then recorded the information on a pirate mind map! |
| We all made pirates that had our faces on them. Cutting can be difficult. We will be on our big pirate ship. |
| The Pirate castle is a hit. Wonderful turn taking! |
| The boys worked really hard together to build an awesome building! |
| Two more first day photos! |
| Find the hidden words in the buried treasure. Record the words on the sheet. |
| Following a patterns and putting the strips on the numbers to make a ship picture. |
| Making our newspaper pirate hats, First we follow the folding directions, then we help staple and finally we decorate with markers anyway we wish! |
| I almost have the picture all put together! |
| Exploring magnets what will stick ( attract) and what will not stick ( detract) draw three thing for both. |
| More buried treasure words to find and record! |
| Our first try at turn and talk. Great work! We take turns talking with each other. A nice way to reinforce turn taking. |
| Some of our pirate display with the many curriculum outcomes we have touched on during our pirate unit displayed. |
| Our big pirate ship. All aboard mateys! |
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| September 19 - National Pirate Day. Here we are as pirates in Kindergarten B. |
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| We had to walk the plank ... careful of the sharks! Great large muscle control! |
| Great pencil grasps. I ask the children to pinch and flip. |
| Playdough coconuts- great for developing fine motor control. |



