Welcome to the final week of our summer learning camp. It has been lots of fun. The final week we focused on Pirates. We learned a little bit about some of the more well known pirates, the ships, how to talk like a pirate and some pirate games like shipwreck and pirate dance moves.
On our first day we counting some gold coins, did some graphing of pirate objects, some pirate addition, and worked on decoding words with the "ar" sound. We also read some stories with sight words and pirate words. Our day could not begin though until we made our pirate hats.
For writing the students were given a choice of writing prompts. They varied from "If I were a pirate I would bury the treasure..." to "I open the treasure chest and found..." The students came up with some very creative responses.
On day two, we made a pirate ship craft using water colors, Popsicle sticks, and paper. The students were asked to name their boats as well. Below are pictures of them working on the craft
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We also read a pirate story and did a comprehension activity with that using the story grammar symbols. We finished the day with a game of shipwreck.
Our last day was really fun and the students were very excited. We were headed to Kettle Cove Beach to look for pirate treasure! When we got there, we set up camp and the students were given a scavenger hunt with items they might be able to find on the beach. They had some times to explore and look for those things. We then took a short break for snack and another pirate story. After snack I told them when I was walking on he beach I found this paper rolled up in a bottle. We opened it as a group and it was our first clue. Each clue lead us to a new spot and each clue also provided us with another piece to the treasure map. The students got to practice reading a map, putting the map together like a puzzle and reading and solving the clues. They were all very excited to find real pirate treasure! The clues and map are below along with pictures from our adventures.
Here is the journey!
Once we had all four pieces to our map we put it all together and used rocks to help so it would not blow away and the treasure would never be found. We had to figure out where we were on the map and then how to get to where the X was. We made a plan and headed back down the path to find the treasure chest.
We found a X on the ground made with sticks and a red X in the trees just like the one on the clues. It was tricky to find since it was under some branches and tucked off the path a little bit. We cracked it open and found lots of gold coins, expensive jewels, gold chunks, and jewelry. The students could fill their pockets quicker. We dragged the chest out and carried it back to our base location. They told everyone we passed along the way of their treasure and they were not sharing!
It was another fun week and like always we had so much more planned but not enough time. I hope that the students had just as much fun as the adults did. I hope they were excited to come and it wasn't like "summer school". Enjoy the next few weeks of summer and see you all in the fall. Thank you for checking out the blog, feel free to share with friends and family.
Thanks,
Dave, Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Kelsey, Mrs. McIntyre, Ms. Bahadori, Ms. Moe, Mrs. Connolly, and Mrs. Downer
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