Pirate unit

Pirates have been a huge interest for Pipiri ever since reading thisDr. Dolittle and the Pirates vintage book.

The Easter bunny brought her this beautiful this wooden cutlass and this hat. So she has basically been a pirate for the past 6 months. Thus a Pirate unit was needed. Her favorite is Blackbeard! The notoriously famous pirate. And because she doesn't watch any TV or movies...her imaginary play is based off of her book reading only. She has an amazing imagination!!

Daddy and Pip love to draw together. They studied several pirates together and then drew one.

These are some of the funny things she wants Captain Hook aka daddy to "give up"...like lent....

This is a little boat her and daddy made out of this beeswax.

We read through these books together...now let me tell you moms and dads use CAUTION with some of them...there is some violence involved. So instead of skipping the entire book, I read them myself and then told her about them. 

Check them out..

The Dangerous Alphabet

Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: Missing Treasure!

Assassin's Creed® IV Black Flag: Blackbeard: The Lost Journal
Blackbeard's Last Fight

This Little Pirate
Pirates, Ho!

How to Be a Pirate: The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking

Blackbeard: Eighteenth-Century Pirate of the Spanish Main and Carolina Coast (Tony Stead Nonfiction Independent Reading Collections)
Blackbeard (Pirates!)

We use this type of journal/notebook as our Main Lesson books (this is a Waldorf way of learning...making our own text books). She tells me everything she can remember without searching thru books...she uses just her memory. We do these after reading our books several times thru. 

We made this "hook" out of a doll hanger and some tin foil.

We also made this Treasure Map using these and these. I love this sharpen for all of our colored pencils - its the best! Crumpled up brown paper....then used this globe to locate all of the places Blackbeard traveled and robbed other ships (purposefully misspelling things and locations)...Then drew different pirate signs on the map. Great geography lesson! 

She loves this pirate sticker board. Take a peek at one similar here. 

We have also been listening to my vintage Peter Pan record and book....check it out here.

It's been a fun unit! 

Dinosaur Unit

We decided to study dinosaurs for a new unit this late spring.

I had Pipiri keep a running list of subjects she would like to study and dinosaurs was at the top of the list.

I got her a ton of Dino books to start out...both nonfiction and fiction.

We read these..

If the Dinosaurs Came Back

National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Dinosaurs (National Geographic Little Kids First Big Books)

National Geographic Kids Ultimate Dinopedia: The Most Complete Dinosaur Reference Ever

My Big Dinosaur Book

Dinosaurs!

Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #1: Dinosaurs: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark

Dinosaur Bones (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

We found so many amazing facts about them...some were different in different books so we had to really research for the right answer (as right as you can get when it comes to Dino's...there are so many unknowns).

We wrote many of the facts in her Main Lesson Book. We also drew dinosaurs using these and these and these then she labeled them in her MLB.

I always draw on one page and she does her drawings on the opposite. She loves for me to create with her.

These are the facts she remembered and wrote herself. 

She also loves to trace her wooden animals...so she traced and colored this cutie!

We made dinosaur fossil slice and bake cookies. I like easy baking...

Slice and bake dough...flattened a bit.

Make imprints using these.

Bake..EZ

We made tie died salt dough fossils also.

Salt dough is so ez.

2 cups white flour. 1 cup salt. I cup luke warm water. Stir.

We then divided the dough into several different blobs...added 5-10 drops of food coloring to each blob...and then we kneeded the dough to mix the colors. 

The tie die turned out super cool! 

Then we made 3-4 inch flattened circles and gently pressed the plastic dinosaurs into each circle of dough...some we added Dino feet prints to...pips idea.

We also had some dough left but no cookie sheets so we used a muffin pan. Very cool effect with these too!

Bake at 200 degrees for 2-4 hours...depending on thickness and oven temps. 

I flipped ours over when they were completely hard on top but yet still doughy on bottom.

They turned out so awesome!

We used the dinosaur fossils for a late spring nature table. She has played nonstop with it...

For this unit of study...we also have listened to Walk Like a Dinosaur and we did this.