This week in our writing we had to think of at least 3 facts about the life of a pirate or facts about pirate ships. Some of the facts that we wrote about were:
-Eva’s fact was that pirate ships had jolly roger flags on them
-Jodie’s fact was that the sailor drove the boat
-Farrah’s fact was the scrubber or cabin boys cleaned the deck
-Lewis’s fact was that the jolly roger flag was put up to scare other people on their ships
-Max’s fact was that the anchor was thrown out the ship to stop the ship like a break on the car

This week we also made pirate portraits. We drew a picture with pencil first of a pirate’s face and then added detail. Some pirates had eye patches, some had bandanas, some had gold teeth! Once we drew our pictures with pencil, we then painted them to add colour and more detail. Once our pictures had dried we stuck on a border. On the border we wrote some pirate sayings! Some of the sayings that pirates said were:
“ARRRR!”
“Ahoy me maties!”
“Land ahoy!”
“Shiver me timbers!”
“Arrr me maties!”
“Walk the plank!”
When writing all these sayings we discussed using a punctuation mark. We talked about when we would use this in our writing and a lot of boys and girls have been impressing Miss Wilson by using this in their writing lately.

Another exciting thing we did this week was starting to make our very own treasure chests! We have only started painting them so far, but we will hopefully finish them soon and add gold, jewels and many other things to make them look interesting!

We are loving learning about pirates and are looking forward to learning more.
-Lucas wants to learn more about what pirates eat and drink
-Eva wants to make some more pirate food
-Maisie wants to learn how to make a pirate hat
-Jodie wants to learn how to make pirate jewellery
-Holly wants to learn more about mermaids

Have a lovely weekend! Don’t forget that next Thursday is the Art Exhibition. It will be held in the new hall from 3:30-6pm. We hope you received your invites from the children and look forward to seeing everyone there!

-Miss Wilson & P1w