Extras For Pirate Unit

We had finished our Pirate Unit, but then I found more amazing pirate loot! So, we decided to do a couple more days about pirates...isn't homeschooling ARGGG...GREAT!!

1+1+1=1 recently released a new pirate unit for kindergartners!

Beginning letter sound pirate wheel with matching letter clothespins.

Same idea with a little twist! I took all the sound objects for letters "B, C, H, P, and T" from the Alphabet Sound Drawers and placed inside the little "treasure chest".

Izzie placed each object to it's correct letter sound.

Completed letter sound wheel with matching objects!

Izzie can recognize which group of objects contains the most/least amount, but this was the first time she used "greater than/less than"signs. I was surprised how quickly she caught on to the concept!

Pirate number line...I glued the cute little pirate onto a clothespin, so it easily attached to the laminated number line and covered the appropriate number. After I attached the pirate over a particular number, Izzie had to say which number was covered up, then she reviewed what number was "before" and what number was "after" the covered-up number. We also played a simple math game. I told Izzie the pirate was walking the number plank and she had to make sure he was taking enough steps either forward or backward. Example: pirate covering up number 5...the pirate needs to take 3 steps forward, what number will he land on? Or, the pirate needs to take 2 steps backward, what number will he land on? Very simple. But, reviewed counting forward and backward, while starting at different numbers.

Same concept as above, just pirate on each line can not be moved.

Identification and sorting of coins: quarter, dime, nickel, and penny. Izzie can now recall how many of each coin there is in one dollar, such as 4 quarters, 10 dimes, 20 nickels, and 100 pennies.

Listening to verbal directions activity.

Here are a few activities from Preschool Printables. I printed out one set for Izzie and Mac (Tot School), but there's actually another set, too!

Counting Number Cards with clothespins

Letter P practice writing sheet.

I have a LOVE/HATE relationship with the Internet. I absolutely LOVE finding so many amazing educational activities, but I really hate that I can't fit everything I find into our schedule!

I just recently found ANOTHER pirate unit full of FREE printables! We were already done with our pirate unit, again, so we did not complete any of these. However, they are printed off and ready to use next year with Mac!

One more Pirate Unit!

To see more pirate activities, please check out:

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Pirates! Day 3 with FREE printables

The girls were so excited to begin school that they headed to the school room before breakfast and still in their pajamas! I always have a "warm-up" activity waiting for them on the table. Today was a pirate color by number sheet.

Our book of the day was Pirate Pete's Talk Like A Pirate! We've read a lot of pirate books during this unit and this one was my FAVORITE! It is hilarious and I couldn't get enough of it!

Review from Amazon: In this new adventure, Pete has a wonderful new ship, but no crew. But not just any crew will do. As Pete explains:

“Ye gots to be stubborn and mighty cranky,
Ye gots to be dirty and awfully stanky!
Ye gots to load a cannon and know how to fire it,
But most of all, ye gots to talk
like a pirate!”

One by one Pete interviews his potential crew, and one by one they get the boot! Whoever will he find to help him sail the high seas? A hilarious and fun-to-read-aloud book that will have every child talking like a pirate.

Ye looks like a pirate, but oh, no! Ye don't talk like a pirate!

Ye gots to walk the plank!

Izzie had a blast acting out the story...she loved that she had to walk the plank and plunge into the ocean! However, Mac wanted nothing to do with walking the plank! She was very excited about climbing up on the table, but would begin to cry every time I mentioned "walking the plank".

Activities for the day:

Matching capital and lowercase gold coin letters.

Izzie wrote her alphabet and drew a picture of a pirate ship.

Parrot coloring with letter "p" writing practice at bottom.

Reviewing colors with this adorable parrot booklet.

Measuring activity.

Comparing the length of her feather to various objects...determining if the feather is shorter, longer, or the same length as the object.

Free printable that I created!

Polly Feathers

Working on pattering strips...from The Mailbox.

Creating own patterns...free printable below!

Flashy Findings

Counting and adding clothespins to these pirate counting cards.

Roll A Pirate Activity

Crafts...

Making Polly the Parrot...inspiration from here.

Working very hard on her Pirate letter "P" craft...she even decided to place the squares on in a pattern! Inspiration from here.

Afternoon field trip to local church with the coolest Noah's Ark play area! The girls pretended it was their pirate ship!

Ye gots to walk the plank, again!

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Be sure to check out Making Learning Fun, Homeschool Creations, and 2 Teaching Mommies for more pirate fun!

Going On A Treasure Hunt! Pirates/Day 2

The book of the day was This Little Pirate, which my girls really enjoyed!

Description from Amazon.com: In a playful take on the popular finger-rhyme "This Little Piggy," two groups of piggy pirates, five on each side, fight for a big box they find on a desert island until they are so pooped that they make a truce, open the box together, and party with the food, musical instruments, and other stuff they find inside. Walrod's colorful collages join with Sturges' mischievous rhyme in a story of adventure, mayhem, and play ("Then this spunky pirate showed her muscle, / and this nasty pirate said 'Yuck!'"). The funny, physical words lend themselves to repeated read-alouds, and preschoolers will discover fresh detail every time they look at the lively double-page spreads filled with dressed-up pigs--first in nasty standoffs, then happy together.

Warm-Up Activity: Pirate Color By Number

Letter Assessment Activities: Placed gold coins with capital letters in treasure chest. Izzie found the treasure coins, identified it's matching lowercase letter on handout, then dotted it, using a dot marker!

Treasure Map dot-to-dot.

Pirate Letter Identification game by The Mailbox.

Letter C sound activity. Izzie colored the coins that had the beginning sound "c", then cut and paste those coins into the treasure chest!

Mac enjoyed scooping out and hiding her gold coins in the sensory bin!

The highlight of the day was the TREASURE CHEST HUNT!

I found these adorable treasure chests at Michael's on clearance for only 99 cents! Yes, I grabbed the last two off the shelf! Perfect find for our theme! Treasure inside included these pirate foam necklace kits (clearance for 33 cents each) and pirate coloring sheets (again, on clearance for only 33 cents for the entire pack)!

Treasure maps of the backyard! Everything is ready!

So, where are my little pirates?

Here they are! Ready to find the treasure!

Examining the map. Looks like it says to head to the butterfly bush, first!

No, treasure here!

Off to the swingset...

Again, no treasure!

Taking a closer look at the map and spotting the big red "X"!

Treasure found under the sandbox!

Checking out the loot!

My girls love reading maps! It started this summer at the zoo, where they each received a map of the zoo. The were so entertained by the map! They loved figuring out where all the animals were located and which path we should take to get to them!

So, this treasure hunt was a HUGE hit! They played with their treasure maps for several days inside and outside...hiding their own treasure chest and having the other one find it!

Let's decorate the treasure chests! With princess stickers, of course!

Now, time to make our pirate necklaces! Because every pirate needs some jewels!

After lunch, it was time to relax with fun pirate games on the computer. My girls just started watching the show, Jake And The Neverland Pirates, on Disney. So, they really enjoyed playing the Jake and The Neverland Pirates' games on-line!

They also had a blast dancing to all the different songs on the website!

And, coloring several Jake and The Neverland Pirates coloring sheets!

Math Activities:

Patterning strips from 2 Teaching Mommies.

A measuring activity (idea was from The Mailbox Magazine, June/July 2004)

I printed out each jewel on color cardstock, wrote each family member name on one, then using yarn, we measured each person, cut and taped our length yarn on our jewel...make sense? So, now we each could go around the house and compare our height to other objects. Izzie enjoyed the activity, Mac...not so much!

Izzie, "Look, I'm taller than the window-shelf!"

Izzie, "I'm shorter than the art easel!"

Izzie, "I'm the same size as my workboxes!"

Here's a simple handout that I created to go along with this activity.

What A Crew

Be sure to check out our other pirate fun!

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Extras

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Please, be sure to check out Two Teaching Mommies and Making Learning Fun for more amazing pirate ideas!