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This week we followed the children’s interests that have sparked from previous week. The children have shown interest in building pirate ship so this week we allowed them to paint their own pirate ship. They selected their own colours to paint our pirate ship. We have put the pirate ship in our Role Play Area. The pirate ship became a popular area. Children accessed it and created their own act.
Duc Minh: All say arrrr!
Gia Phu: Fire! Fire! Blow the cannons.
Agathe: I want to be the crocodile.
The Lam: Let’s find the treasure. The treasure is this way.”
Diyara: We need a map and telescope.
Mikhail: The treasure is here. Dig dig dig.

We asked parents if we could keep some of their costumes to add to our role play. The children especially the girls accessed them frequently. We added the pirate hats they made from last week to the area. The boys enjoyed wearing them.
In our Creative Arts Area, they independently accessed the eye patch making activity, some children came back the following day to make another one. The children completed the activity with minimal support.
Minh Dan, Diyara, Mikhail, and Bao Sang needed some support cutting the foam and elastic.
We added a treasure chest, spade, shovel and wheelbarrow. Dong Hyeon, Minh Anh and Bao Sang pretended to dig and find treasure. Dang Lam, Tuan Kiet, and Minh Dan put coins, crystals and gems in the treasure chest. Everyday they put different objects in it. Gia Phu put playdough and said it was “gold”.
In the soft play room, they continued their pirate and crocodile adventure. The children used the cushions as cannons and treasure chest.
The children have memorised the song ‘A Pirate You Shall Be’ and they have requested to sing it more than once.
On Friday, we introduced a new story, ‘Ten Little Pirates’, which will be our focus story next week.

Next week plans based on children’s interests:
Telescope and Treasure map making
Reading a Treasure map
Treasure Hunt
‘10 Little Pirates’ talk for writing
Children and teachers will bring a treasure to school, share with the class and add in our treasure chest.

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The past weeks we have noticed the children's interest in making ships and using the scarves as bandannas while they pretend to be pirates.

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Table top activities:
Tuff tray- we filled it with sand and added a small world pirate ship.
Creative arts table - we put pirate hat making resources
Reading area - pirate books
Malleable - crystals and yellow playdough
Maths -counting activity - number mats, sorting bowls and gems

Circle Time and activities:
We shared the story ‘Where’s the Pirate Captain’ during our Circle Times.
Dressed up as pirates on Friday.
Learnt a pirate song and dance “A Pirate You Shall Be’. (Just dance on youtube)
Role- playing in the soft play room.

Observations:
The tuff tray, pirate hat making and pirate books were very popular to the children. The children made their hats and persevered in cutting along the pattern. Diyara said, “I want to make another pirate hat for my sister.” Duc Minh said, “I like to make an eye patch too.” Dang Lam said, “I know this one. It’s like skeleton” while pointing to the skulls and crossbones.

Meanwhile, Dong Hyeon, Tuan Kiet and Bao Sang hid the gems from the Maths area in the tuff tray in the sand. Tuan Kiet said, “I found a lot of treasure. I will share it with my friends,”

The children enjoyed singing and dancing the song ‘A pirate you shall be’ during our music time. We danced it every morning and before they go home. They learnt the steps quickly and requested to play it again.

The children were very excited during our Pirate Dress up day. They felt more like pirates and participated in our role playing in the soft play room. They built their ships using the cushion and defeated they crocodile with their cutlasses. They took turns in being the crocodile and enjoyed being the villains.

Next steps:
Eye patch making
Build a ship in the classroom
Add pirate costume and crocodile (borrow pirate costume from parents)
Adde hidden treasures in the sand
Learn some pirate words and expressions like ahoy, shiver me timbers, pieces of eight, arrrrr!

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Through our treasure hunt the children will develop the following:
Show an interest in number problems.

• Show an interest in numerals in the environment.

• Show an interest in representing numbers.

• Realise not only objects, but anything can be counted, including steps, claps or jumps.

• Selects the correct numeral to represent 1 to 5, then 1 to 10 objects.

• Uses positional language.

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What are pirates?
What do they wear?
Where do they live?
What do they do?
What treasures do they look for?
Are pirates good or bad people?
Would you like to become good or bad pirates?
How to read a map?
What will you need to prepare on your pirate adventure?
What does treasure mean? What do you treasure? Why do you treasure it

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Through the treasure map making, pirate stories and Circle Time, the children will develop the following:
Knows information can be relayed in the form of print.

• Holds books the correct way up and turns pages.

• Knows that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom

• Continue a rhyming string.

• Hear and say the initial sound in words.

• Link sound to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.

• Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together.

• Use some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence.
Write own name and other things such as labels, captions.

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We gathered ideas from children about what do they need for their pirate adventure and created a checklist. This is the checklist they came up with

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As we go on a treasure hunt, talk about our treasure and use technology in our pirate adventure, the children will develop the following:
Comment and ask questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.

• Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.

• Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family.

• Shows skill in making toys work by pressing parts or lifting flaps to achieve effects such as sound, movements or new images.

• Knows that information can be retrieved from computers

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Through our Circle Time, Pirate role-playing and daily conversations, the children will develop the following:
• Maintain attention, concentrate and sit quietly during appropriate activity.

• Build up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences.

• Use talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play

• Use talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences.

• Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.

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As we create our pirate adventure props, engage in role-playing, and learn pirate songs and dances, the children will develop the following:
• Join construction pieces together to build and balance.

• Realise tools can be used for a purpose.

• Developing preferences for forms of expression.

• Use movement to express feelings.

• Creates movement in response to music.

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Through the pirate activities and children's own experiences they will develop the following:
Describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities. Feelings and behavior

• Show awareness of own feelings, and knows that some actions and words can hurt others’ feelings.

• Begin to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others.

Initiates play, offering cues to peers to join them.

• Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say.

• Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.

• Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other

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Through the pirate adventure the children will develop the following:
• Run skilfully and negotiates space successfully, adjusting speed or direction to avoid obstacles.

• Experiment with different ways of moving.

• Jump off an object and lands appropriately.

• Negotiate space successfully, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.

• Travel with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.