Pirates

At school we teach through themes. These are generally around 5-6 weeks long and all learning (maths, reading and writing is linked into the theme).

We started off with Pirates - I didn't take as many photos of our learning as I would have liked but I have a few. We had the head of primary come and drop of a letter that a pirate had delivered to him on the beach. It was a cool hook and the kids loved it. We split off into house colour and went on a treasure hunt around school. 

We made pirate hats - following instructions!

We wrote instructions - how to dress like a pirate.

We learnt poems and had a go at re-writing our own.

We made wanted posters for some pirates who had stolen some money.

To top it off we dressed up as pirates and had a fun game making maps, hunting for treasure and playing dress ups.

During pirates we also learnt about the 5 senses. The first week we learnt what they were and made and labelled Mr Potato Head.

The first week we went on a listening walk. We listened to the story the listening walk on YouTube first. We went and lay down on the basketball court for 5 minutes, then the corridor for 5 and then the classroom. We made a list of all the things we could hear.

Sight we played eye spy and spot the difference. We talked about what is used to help sight etc. 

Smell...I can't remember (we smelt something but not sure what it was - I'll add it when I do).

Taste we had a variety of food - sweet jam, bitter chocolate and sour lemons. The facial expressions when eating the lemons was halirious.

Touch I set up 7 stations in the class for the kids to touch, feel and explore. We had: 

- play dough 

- gloop (oobleck)

- cooked pasta

- ice

- shaving foam

- jelly

- dish liquid

The kids had a blast getting all messy!