Pirates Past Noon

The fourth Magic Tree House book that we read was "Pirates Past Noon." I was crafting away one night at school trying to make these pirate ships for the kids to use during dramatizing, they were a hit!

 Here's "Jack" with his glasses and backpack on checking the book to see what they have to dramatize next...

 Here are some pirates using the spectacle to see if they can see land!

For our "Fun Friday Art Project" we made these beautiful pirate ship scenes. First we had to paint a layer of dark blue then a layer of a lighter shade of blue on top. Then we used a fork to scratch in some waves. 

 We glued on the ship shape and some masts and sails and added our initial and a jolly roger to the flag.

 Didn't they come out great?

Here is another "Fun Friday Art Project" that we made, pirate masks!

We started using iPads on Tuesday's and Thursday's for "write along" to write our "message of the day" from the previous day. We have to use our working memory to remember the message from the previous day and write it down.

There was A LOT of excitement when we put the new December calendar out...the kids were amazed at how many "home days" we have at the end of the month!

 This is our "buddy reading" time on Wednesday's and Friday's, we read our facts & chapter summaries to our buddy on these days. The other days we read different themed books, one theme is the theme of the latest Magic Tree House book we are reading, some of us also read books in our browsing box that we have learned to read!

Here is one group doing a "can-do" after they dramatized the story. They are playing Number BINGO