Peter Pan Week

During the week of 27 Feb- 2 March we were busy doing activities relating to the book Peter Pan. Here are the two main books that we read:

The children really love the story of Peter Pan and so they were very motivated to participate in the activities. Some of the things that we did were as follows:

• Peter Pan preschool printables from Homeschool creations. These printables included included tracing, identifying initial sounds, graphing, identifying rhyming words, measuring height of clock towers, reading a short story, pre-writing activities and matching the digital time with the analog time on clocks. Go here for Peter pan printables from Homeschool Creations

Joshua doing the tracing activity

Jed tracing. The crocodile is trying to get to Captain Hook.

Jed doing the graphing activity

Making the characters into popsicle stick puppets

Taping the popsicle stick to the character

All the popsicle puppets

•  Playing the Tick Tock game, where the children are the actual tokens and they move around the gameboard identifying the time on the clock that they are standing before they can throw the dice again. The boys loved this game and we are very thankful to Living Life Intentionally for the great game.

Here's Joshua playing the Tick Tock game with Google looking on

• Making Big Ben from popsicle sticks and a mason jar lid or CD for the face of the clock.

•  Making a Peter Pan dagger. It was apparently Peter Pan week 2012 in Britain too during the week that we did our Peter Pan theme. J.M Barrie, the author of Peter Pan gave the copyright of his book to the Great Ormond Street Hospital. Every year they have a fundraising week and do things relating to Peter Pan. I was able to get the template for the Peter pan dagger from their website.

•  Frequent reading and re-reading of the book.

•  Lots of fun dressing up and taking turns being in character. The favourite characters were aptain Hook and Peter Pan. The characters of John and little Michael were also explored.

John in his nightgown with his glasses, hat and umbrella.

Little Michael in his night clothes and his teddy bear.

•  Going on an expedition like John and Little Michael did with the Lost Boys.

John going on an expedition

John and Little Michael playing "following the leader" as they enjoy their expedition.

•  We also enjoyed a Peter Pan movie night and watched the original animated Peter Pan movie. Of course no movie night is complete without pop-corn !!!