How I Became a Pirate

Squawk! 

The Navigators and the Treasure Seekers went to a treasure of a play, How I Became a Pirate. 

It was based on the book of the same name:

Having started the year reading lots about pirates, 

this play was full of pirate-y treasure for us. 

Pirate treasure chests

Pirate language

Pirate manners (none!)

Pirate bedtime stories (none!)

Pirate sea shanties

And lots of pirate humor (cue the word poop deck!)

We practiced theater etiquette.

We recognized Jeremy Jacob's sand castle!

The stage became a ship.

Afterwards we were able to ask the stage hands our own questions. 

The Tacoma Musical Playhouse also had fancy bathrooms...

...with a fancy chaise lounge!

Thank you for showing the play. I like it when they said "Swill, Swill."

(one of the characters who was never a "first time listener.")

Thank you for letting us go to How I Became a Pirate.

I liked the poop deck and it was funny.

(Notice the detailed costumes!)

Thank you for letting us see the show.

The funny part was when we saw the poop deck.

(Notice the drawing of the stage!)

Thank you for letting us see your show. 

I like the silly parts.

We are studying pirates. 

"Braid Beard! That is you!"

The Navigators LOVE experiencing musical theater.

However, when asked if they want 

to become a pirate someday, 

the answer was a resounding 

NO!

Moms and dads, you are doing 

a mighty fine job raising these mateys. 

You might try asking them to swab the deck

but be careful how you say it. 

AAAARRRRRGGGG!

Nordic Museum Treasures

The Navigators and Treasure Seekers took the long trek 

up to Seattle to see the special Viking artifact exhibit 

at the new Nordic Museum. 

A buried longboat of a chief

The room was dark to prevent deterioration of the artifacts.

No flash photography allowed.

"The helmets were designed to demonstrate status 

with ornaments and costly gemstones."

The museum set up a treasure hunt for us, a hunt to find the wonderful Viking and Scandinavian treasures located throughout the museum. 

Here are a few of the treasures we found:

A replica of a carved mast of a long boat

Some artifacts from Norway 

(So fun for me personally, as I have some of my grandmother's similar things!)

A rune stone!

We enjoyed listening in on the group tour. 

We knew more than they did. :)

Cool! A model of a caravel. 

We know about these, too!

Carl Linnaeus from Sweden!

We'll learn much more about him when we study

the classification of plants and animals later on this year. 

We loved the touch screen mini-videos and interactive activities.

We participated in the museum interactive display answering the question, 

"What does your heritage mean to you?"

Adding it to the wall

"What do you do to respect and improve the lives of others?"

This student said, "Follow the Golden Rule."

Another important, profound addition to the wall.

We also took time to enjoy the architecture of the new museum building.

It reminded us of IKEA.

Eating lunch with our friends

A game of Red Light, Green Light 

The bus ride home is a great time to "Lean on Me!"

I likes the dresses, the legos and the pretty jewels. 

"I like the rune stone."

 "Thanks for showing us all the Viking artifacts. I want to come again."

Notice the detail of the various Norwegian costumes.

We enjoyed seeing, up close and personal, the things we have been learning about in our study of the explorers. 

Tusen takk, Nordic Museum, for helping us expand on our overarching concept of

TREASURE.

Our Spook-tacular Halloween

We had a spook-tacular Halloween party, 

thanks to our fang-tastic parents.

Here are the boo-tiful Navigators dressed up as:

Clifford, the Big Red Dog

Hermione

Nemo, the clown fish

My Little Pony, Rainbow Dash

Hermione

Wonder Woman

And a special guest, a dad dressed up as an inflatable unicorn!

Ms Jackie-of-all-trades came, too, dressed up as a spider web.

And here we all arrrrrrrrrrg: 

Pirate Towne, her trusty parrot, and her boo-tiful crooooooooo.

Let the party begin!!

Wonder woman needs help tying her shoes. 

Thank you, Mr. Broberg. 

Pinning the pony's tail on and straightening her wings

Pumpkins and spiders and ghosts, OH MY!

 

The brooooo is brooooooo-ing

The foooooood looks gooooood!

 

The Hermiones play a monster game.

  

 Fang-tastic foooood and fun was had by all.

Unicorns unite!

Thank you, families, for making our Halloween Day 

so spook-tacularly, fang-tastically fun!