Pirate week fun!

The kids have been so busy this week hiding and hunting for treasure!  They love the golden nuggets and flashy necklaces hiding about the school.  This has even carried on outside!  They love playing hide the treasure outside.  We have drawn treasure maps, made parrots and ships and even wrote pirate stories. 

The older class wrote their own pirate stories and came up with their own titles such as...The Pirate got Stung by a Bee, The Princess Pirate, The Puppy and the Pirate, Heart Pirate, The Pirate and the Spider, Pikachu Pirate, The Princess and the Pirate, The Pirate and Blue, Pirates Don't Take Care of Otters and more. These kids are great storytellers and the illustrations, AMAZING! I was really impressed how much I wrote when the kids dictated the story.  Before class ended, I read all the pirate stories and the kids were rolling on the floor with laughter!  It was so hard to get them to the classroom because they were all so busy in the back playing in small groups.  One group was looking through collected treasure, another playing pets in our pretend box boat, and two more groups playing vet and house!  It is great observing the children play together.  I hear Ms. Lindsay's class wrote a class pirate story.  Tomorrow, the older class will get to hear it.  Storytelling is very popular in our school.