pirates and first day of school

I am loving the pirate theme. I'm excited to get into the classroom and start decorating. I can't do anything until I return to the states in August. I will have exactly 2 weeks to prep! Not a lot of time. I made this first day of school coloring activity. Perfect for morning work. Plus, you can easily assess who can color and who knows their colors.

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Pirate Party

Last Friday we had a pirate party. It was a big hit!! We all dressed up like pirates and said "Aaargh" all day long. I used Babbling Abby's Learing /ar/ with Pirate Mark mini unit on TpT to teach the /ar/ sound. You really should add it to your collection. We went on a treasure hunt for "ar" words I had hidden throughout the room. The treasure was a chest filled with candy bars.Babbling Abby also included a t-shirt how to. Unfortunately my printer ate up all of my iron-on transfer paper. Here's my crew! Don't mind my funky looking bandana.

Yummy pirate cupcakes made by my wonderful room mom (going to miss her).
And we learned why pirates wore an eye patch . . . so cool! Inspiration by Deanna Jump.

pirates and ocean

Only 7 more days left of school!! I am so ready for summer vacation. We are still busy learning over here. We had fun with pirates and now we are learning all about the ocean. Today we learned about sharks.
This is my pocket chart station for the week. You can download it here. Just be sure to print 8 sets of the words.

Shark tree map
The pirate activities are from Deanna Jump's pirate unit. We went through the writing process together using a bubble map, story map, and then wrote a fiction story about being a pirate. Everyone came up with some creative stories. Then they made pirates using a glph. They turned out looking just darling. We also made sharks and followed up with non-fiction writing.