Talk Like a Pirate Day 2017 was epic with this crew! Arrrrgh! Our classroom was transformed... complete with a pirate ship in the middle. The students' faces when they walked in was priceless.
We started the day with a naming ceremony. To be a pirate, you need a strong pirate name. Students chose names by generating numbers and using different place values to generate the silly names. The students had new names like Big Buckle Charlie and Fearsome Pegleg Patsy. Some students put their pirate name on all their papers. Ha! It sure made correcting their work interesting!
When the students returned from P.E., we found a mysterious note. The note said that we were captured by pirates that wanted our ship and treasure. If we could follow the clues and answer a series of math problems, we could escape capture. The students had 60 minutes to "escape the room." Thank you to Teresa Kwant, an educator from Utah, for your fun and engaging lesson. The students worked so hard! Their cooperation, perseverance, and problem solving sure made this captain proud.
The students escaped with a couple minutes to spare. They even found a chocolate treasure, with pirate jokes attached. The students enjoyed sharing their jokes with each other and eating chocolate treats!
After lunch, the students enjoyed more pirate stories and we did some writing. Students stayed with the pirate theme to answer the five w's. We brainstormed who, what, when, where, why that would have to do with pirates. Then, the students wrote a poem. The students did some amazing work.
