Ahoy Matey! Enjoy the adventure-filled life of a pirate. Discuss facts and fiction-but most of all have fun! Read a pirate's map and search for treasure. Let your imagination run wild as you sail the seas and look for gold.
Day 1: What is a pirate? We will discuss why they want to be a pirate and what they think they need to do to become a pirate.
* Activities: Students will pick a pirate name…based on a book I read about pirates(I have a list of names), students will design a pirate from a coloring book in which they will color and put their pirate name on it and students will chose a pirate pet (dog, cat, or parrot).
Day 2: Students will learn how pirates talk and communicate. Students will also learn how pirates walk and move.
* Activities: students will design a pirate ship with all the accessories they need and I will read another pirate story that has vivid pictures of the pirate ship. DVD of pirate songs in which the students will listen to while they are drawing. Students will learn to talk like a pirate.
* Outdoor Activities: convert the outside play grounds into two pirate ships and students will learn to “walk the plank” , “jump ship”, ect.
Day 3: Students will make treasure maps, they will design them with obstacles and booby traps. I will read a story about pirates and making traps.
* Activities: students will design a treasure map with obstacles.
* Outdoor Activities: Students will get into 1 or 2 groups and follow a treasure map designed by me with clues left around the school. (I did this last year with a couple of different classes, if you will let me do this I had the cooperation of the other teachers last year.) I also will have the students practice walking the plank and the ships outside.
Day 4: Students will live like pirates by following my (the captains) rules. This will be inside and outside.
* Activities: I will give the students rules to follow that will be made by them so they can learn to live like a pirate.
* Outdoor Activities: pirate relay races, the quiet game, and an obstacle course
Day 5: Students will learn to safely capture a ship and understand why pirates wanted to capture ships. I will also read a book about pirates and their efforts to find and capture ships.
* Outdoor Activities: Capture the flag will be played to simulate capturing a pirate ship.
* Activities: Students will learn a pirate song and learn to sing it with the pirate dance
Day 6: Students will participate in a real treasure hunt with treasure chests and gold. We will discuss why hiding the treasure is very important and why pirates created obstacles to get the treasure.
* Outdoor Activities: students will find hidden treasure on the playground and field that I had hidden and put it in their treasure chests.
* Activities: Students will design and make treasure chests that they can take home with them and their treasure.
Day 7: Students will participate in games that demonstrate what a pirate did when they were on land. I will read a story about pirates.
* Activities: students will dress up as pirates and pirate brides, students will also play a dice game similar to hot potato, and have a competitive water drinking contest.
Day 8: Students will watch Peter Pan
Day 9: Students will take what they have learned about pirates and act like pirates in pictionary.
* Activities: Pirate Pictionary, one legged race, looting relay race on mats or scooters.
Day 10: Students will get an eye patch and clip on earring like pirates have. They will perform pirate tasks wearing the eye patch and sing the pirate song; they will also perform their dance.
* Activities: students will make a pirate fort from the mats in the cafetorium.
Day 1: What is a pirate? We will discuss why they want to be a pirate and what they think they need to do to become a pirate.
* Activities: Students will pick a pirate name…based on a book I read about pirates(I have a list of names), students will design a pirate from a coloring book in which they will color and put their pirate name on it and students will chose a pirate pet (dog, cat, or parrot).
Day 2: Students will learn how pirates talk and communicate. Students will also learn how pirates walk and move.
* Activities: students will design a pirate ship with all the accessories they need and I will read another pirate story that has vivid pictures of the pirate ship. DVD of pirate songs in which the students will listen to while they are drawing. Students will learn to talk like a pirate.
* Outdoor Activities: convert the outside play grounds into two pirate ships and students will learn to “walk the plank” , “jump ship”, ect.
Day 3: Students will make treasure maps, they will design them with obstacles and booby traps. I will read a story about pirates and making traps.
* Activities: students will design a treasure map with obstacles.
* Outdoor Activities: Students will get into 1 or 2 groups and follow a treasure map designed by me with clues left around the school. (I did this last year with a couple of different classes, if you will let me do this I had the cooperation of the other teachers last year.) I also will have the students practice walking the plank and the ships outside.
Day 4: Students will live like pirates by following my (the captains) rules. This will be inside and outside.
* Activities: I will give the students rules to follow that will be made by them so they can learn to live like a pirate.
* Outdoor Activities: pirate relay races, the quiet game, and an obstacle course
Day 5: Students will learn to safely capture a ship and understand why pirates wanted to capture ships. I will also read a book about pirates and their efforts to find and capture ships.
* Outdoor Activities: Capture the flag will be played to simulate capturing a pirate ship.
* Activities: Students will learn a pirate song and learn to sing it with the pirate dance
Day 6: Students will participate in a real treasure hunt with treasure chests and gold. We will discuss why hiding the treasure is very important and why pirates created obstacles to get the treasure.
* Outdoor Activities: students will find hidden treasure on the playground and field that I had hidden and put it in their treasure chests.
* Activities: Students will design and make treasure chests that they can take home with them and their treasure.
Day 7: Students will participate in games that demonstrate what a pirate did when they were on land. I will read a story about pirates.
* Activities: students will dress up as pirates and pirate brides, students will also play a dice game similar to hot potato, and have a competitive water drinking contest.
Day 8: Students will watch Peter Pan
Day 9: Students will take what they have learned about pirates and act like pirates in pictionary.
* Activities: Pirate Pictionary, one legged race, looting relay race on mats or scooters.
Day 10: Students will get an eye patch and clip on earring like pirates have. They will perform pirate tasks wearing the eye patch and sing the pirate song; they will also perform their dance.
* Activities: students will make a pirate fort from the mats in the cafetorium.
