(I found a website of pirate phrases, and that means “Hello, my friends!”….in case you were wonderingJ)
The last few days of pirate activity have been loads of fun! Yesterday we made a pirate ship collage, enjoyed pirate stories, sang 5 Big pirates & Going on a Treasure Hunt. The students were also really into pretending to be pirates! It is so amazing and entertaining to see them dressed up and fully engaged in being pirates!
Our snack time is starting to get pretty fancy around here. On Tuesday, Ms. Salouma made the most delicious smoothies! They were made of frozen mango, frozen pineapple, banana, and carrot juice with tropical fruit. Delish! All of the students tried a little of the smoothie…even if they thought they wouldn’t like it J Today for snack, we had little apple slice pirate ships with string cheese as the sail. Not only were they super cute, but it’s also a yummy snack combo!
We did a lot of constructing and building today. We all made catapults that actually work! However…we ran out of hot glue gun glue, so those will be going home tomorrow/next week. Once they are all completed, we plan on having a contest to see who can fling their marshmallow from their catapult the farthest. We also performed an experiment today! On Monday, Ms. Salouma asked what pirate ships were built from, and one boy responded “from rocks!” So, we built a small raft out of rocks (well actually we glued rocks to a piece of foam paper), and one out of sticks, to see which would float. First we weighed each raft to see which one weighed more. Then we took the rafts to the water table and placed each in the water to observe what would happen. We found that the rock raft sank and the wood raft stayed afloat! Who said learning wasn’t fun???
Some pictures…
Watering our garden
Playing in the sand box
Pirate ship snack
Rock vs wood raft experiment
Weighing the rafts
Performing the pirate ship experiment in water
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