Magic Tree House Tie-Ins - Pirates Past Noon

Pirates of the Caribbean!

Reading:
Pirates are popular around my house, and stuff about pirates litter every imaginable surface. We’ve got pirate pop-ups, pirate costumes, pirate puzzles, pirate swords, pirate ships and who knows what else. I do have a few favorite books about pirates that I prefer over all the others.

• What If You Met A Pirate? by Jan Adkins is a good place to start. The book begins by describing the popular stereotype of a pirate, then proceeds to show how a peg-legged, one-eyed pirate bogged down by cutlasses, swords, guns, jewelery and a parrot isn’t likely to be a very successful pirate at all. In the rest of the book Adkins explains what pirates were really like, what they wore, and what they did all day.
  
• Of course, most of the popular pirate stereotypes come from the very famous and still readable Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Although a young readers edition is probably necessary for the first read-through with younger kids, once they’ve got the storyline down, the original isn’t too hard to listen too either.
• Pirates (Magic Tree House Research Guide, paper) — This is the well written and engaging research book companion to the Magic Treehouse book. These research guides are really absorbing. I highly recommend all of them!

Printables:

• Pirate Coloring Pages from Funschool — very cartoonish pirate coloring pages. Very cute.
• Pirate Puzzles and Mazes - crossword, maze, wordsearch, and word games.
• Coloring Pages including a jolly roger flag, pirate map, and more
• Pirate Theme Pages from Enchanted Learning includes a wide variety of printable pages.

Games and Online Activities:

• Sea Pirates - Take command of your ship and sail the seas in search of a pirate fortune. See if you have what it takes to rise from a lowly sea dog to a pirate island governor. Sea Pirates combines strategy with arcade action to give you hours of pirate fun.
• Treasure Hunt — an online treasure hunt game suitable for kids.
• Pirate Cove — a very simple shooting game. Use the arrow keys to move your ship, and the space bar to fire your cannons.
• AARGH the Pirate — Help AARGH the Pirate protect his treasure chests from the Sneaky Sharks.
• Cannon Blast — a cannon shooting game that’s a little more complex, with better animation than Pirate Cove.
• Puke the Pirate — Puke the Pirate needs to collect Black Barf’s treasure – help him by running and jumping through many levels of adventure.

Other Stuff

• Lesson plans for Pirates Past Noon, including chapter by chapter vocabulary lists, questions, and activities
• Pirate Crossword I made this crossword puzzle for David with page numbers as references so he could search for the clues by himself. I chose some of the words from the book that were new to him, which gave me a chance to reinforce the vocabulary while giving him a fun activity.
• Captain Kidd by Great Big Sea — We downloaded this from iTunes after reading the book the last time, and it’s David’s new favorite song. (On YouTube with Pirates of the Caribbean footage)

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