Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day
but we celebrated last Friday.
It was the best low tide day for us to be at the beach.
Four StrongStart centres from our school district
planned this event together.
Here are a few of the activities that we did.
I brought the helm and sail from school and hung a pirate
flag on it.
We pretended to sail out to see searching for ships.
Another facilitator brought a nice piece of wood that
we used for ‘walking the plank’.
Fake moustaches had mixed reviews but were fun.
Another facilitator made wonderful treasure bottles and
scattered them around the beach.
She filled them with sand, gold sprayed mini pasta shells
and little toys. The children were intrigued to turn the bottles over
and over to see what was inside.
There was buried treasure.
But first we had to build the map.
The children had to find four treasure boxes hidden around
the beach.
Collect a coin from each box then bring them to me,
Pirate Moe,
to buy a piece of the map puzzle.
The children worked together to figure out how the pieces fit together.
When the puzzle was completed they had to point out the `X`
then find on the beach where the treasure was hidden.
It didn't take long before they found it under a tree root.
We finished off the morning with songs and stories.
It was a beautiful day to be a pirate on the beach.
Ahoy thar, matey!
a marching stick,
a broomstick for sweeping,
drum sticks,
a hole stick for a bug,
and a blackberry bashing stick.
eat.
