Wow what fun we're having with Jake and the Neverland Pirates.
The children's passion and interest in Jake and his friends has seen us change or reading corner in to a reading boat and what fun we're having in there. We've been looking at and reading lots of stories Jake and the Pirates, Pirates love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort, The Singing Mermaid by Julia Donaldson, Mermaid by Cerrie Burnell, Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt.
Through our books the children have and are continuing to develop the area.
We now have telescopes which are used for playing eye spy just like Timothy Pope in the story Shark in the Park.
We've created an image of ourselves as a pirate, looked at rhyming words, repeating phrases from familiar stories and created our own treasure maps which turned into individual story maps about finding hiden treasure.
We have each got a tresure box containing our very own treasure we have found as well as counting the big box of treasure that was hidden in our classroom.
Our pirates have explored different materials of treasure using magnets and scales counting and describing what they pick up and how heavy or light their treasure is.
Spending time at sea has leant itself to lots of number rhymes singing 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive, 5 little speckled frogs and 5 little ducks went swimming one day.
