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!

Ye gots to check out our other pirate fun!

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

Tot School: Pirates!

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me ...

Mac had an amazing week learning about pirates!

She loved wearing her adorable pink pirate hat!

Pirate Activities On The Shelf

1. Shadowing Matching and Simple Puzzles

She's doing her "happy dance"! She loved working these adorable pirate puzzles!

2. Pre-Writing Skills with Crayola dry-erase crayons

This was her least favorite activity on the shelf. Here is set 1 and here is set 2.
She doesn't like to trace. She prefers to draw on her own!

Pirate drawings...

She informed me this drawing was of a pirate (notice the circle around the right eye, that's the patch and the squiggly lines below the smile is his beard!) in the ocean! Drawing faces is her new favorite thing!

Did I mention that she liked to draw faces? A lot of faces!

3. Ship Sequencing...Set 1 and Set 2

4. ABC Puzzle

5. Little Mermaids Game

6. Magnetic Puff Page

Other activities:

Coloring pirate handouts!

Coloring this cute parrot book to review her colors!

She's really into working puzzles, so this pirate puzzle was a huge hit! And, I love that she was reviewing her numbers 1-10, too!

Circling which picture is different handout. These were a little too hard for Mac, but once Izzie told her which one to circle, she was a master at circling!

I used this handout to introduce and review pirate terms. Simple games included, "Where is the (blank)?" and "I Spy A (blank)".

Crafts:

Pirate Ship...inspiration from here.

Pirate Handprint...with her cute little pirate face drawn on all by herself!
Handprint inspiration from here.

Polly the Parrot, inspiration from here.

More fun included:

Hiding and finding gold coins, inside and outside!

Going on a treasure hunt!

And finding the treasure! For more details and pictures of her treasure hunt, click here!

Decorating her treasure chest.

The most exciting activity....our voyage to a local church to play on Noah's Ark (our pretend Pirate Ship).

The Little Pirate!

Walking the plank!

We had an amazing voyage this week learning about pirates!

For More Pirate Printables and Ideas, check out these sites:

Two Teaching Mommies

Preschool Printables

Homeschool Creations


To see more Tot School ideas, sail over to 1+1+1=1.



Mac is 30 months old.