We are having so much fun this week acting like pirates during Explore time! We have been making costumes, hats, eyepatches and ships to sail as well as lots of other fun things. We have experimented with our ships to see whether they will sink or float, and have practised 'debugging' by finding and fixing what went wrong.
We have also had great fun balancing on the 'plank' and writing secret kind messages to our friends and then directing them to find our message inside a bottle.
This week we have been working lots of problem solving. This means when something happens we are practising different ways of solving our problems ourselves before asking for someone else to do it for us.
Mrs Hobbs has been so impressed at what great problem solvers we are!
Check out some of what we have been up to in the photos below:
Hudson worked so hard to balance while walking the plank!
Aurora had to carefully measure to make her pirate hat and eyepatch the perfect fit for her head!
Mackenzie was very proud of her pirate flag that symbolised love
Arjay worked hard to make his lego pirate ship have all the features of a real pirate ship!
Luca W thought carefully about how to make his boat float, and also wondered how pirates would get water so he added a machine that filters the salt out of the water at the bottom of the ship so they could have water to drink!
Scarlett loved dressing up as a pirate and had an extra large purse to hide all her treasure!
Jack made this message in a bottle for Shelby and drew a map for him to use to find it!
Luca B was an expert at balancing on the plank!
Jack made modifications to his ship to ensure it floated - he also added a handle to the sail so he could save it if it sunk!
Semi, Cameron and Arjay worked together to make this awesome pirate ship! They even made their very own plank coming off it.
This was some of the great work that made it to the WOW wall this week - anyone who gets on the WOW wall gets a brain dot OR gets to move their Creativity Pin. Great work guys!
