The Kissing Hand book is read the first day and Chester the Raccoon | visits the class. |
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! |
September 19 - National Pirate Day. Here we are as pirates in Kindergarten B. |
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. |