Journey with Pirates

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Transport: On the Move Over Water

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Objectives

Early Learning Goals

Sing songs and make music, and experiment with ways of changing them.
Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, role-play and stories.
Listen attentively in a range of situations. Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what is heard with relevant comments, questions or actions.
Express yourself effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs. Develop own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.

Lesson Planning

Learn and adapt sea shanty songs and invent your own stories.

Teaching Outcomes:

To learn and adapt sea shanty songs.
To invent own stories.
To take part in a whole class role-play.

Children will:

Learn and adapt sea shanties.
Make puppets to create own songs and stories.
Use role-play to explore the theme pirates.

Planning

Provided Resources

Before this drama session you will need to prepare your classroom and resources - see session resources.

Smugglers cove and ship ideas
Sea Shanties
Pirate names

You Will Need

Plastic coins
Children’s telescope
Plastic letters (phase 2 sounds)

Weblinks

Pirate activities from earlylearninghg.org.uk
A simple parrot puppet - YouTube clip
Threading pasta instructions -YouTube clip
Pirate island storytelling instructions from theimaginationtree.com
Pirate salt dough coin instructions from onetimethroughcom.