Hiya! Are you visiting for the first time? Nice to meet you! Why not tune in to my feed, or take a peek at my Tumblr, or check out the Idea Box for more interesting lessons and songs? Now... on to your regularly scheduled Treasure Island Unit Study:

It's here! The Treasure Island unit study you've been staying up nights longing for! Ready to download and use in your homeschool family, your co-op, or even your regular old classroom! Get out your eye patch and saw off your leg -- it's time to launch the Hispaniola and go search for Captain Flint's lost cache of Spanish gold! Since the book itself is so full of pirates being skewered and shot in their pursuit of financial gain, I'm giving away the lessons for free. Free is the new ARRRRRGHHHH!

This printable 35-page PDF includes twelve lessons to take you and your student through Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. You'll learn ancillary skills like boxing the compass, reading signal flags, and telling time with ship's bells. Write your own pirate story, make an oilskin treasure map, and learn the songs from the novel. Six vocabulary worksheets, one for each section of the book, introduce nautical terms like hawser and capstan along with regular old words like incongruous and dexterity. Click the cover page to get the PDF. No charge.

This seminar was written for use in our homeschooling co-op and classroom-tested on a group of eight 6-9 year old boys. They approved of it, especially the knot-tying, the skits, and the shouting "Yo Ho HO."

Download the entire class now as a PDF! Treasure Island Seminar Or, you can visit the page I created for the parents to download materials as they were coming out, week by week. There you will find individual pages and worksheets. Note: The old versions have been updated and are now new and improved, so if you download the individual pages, you are not getting the latest version! I recommend downloading the full thing.

My pirate class building ships:

And our pirate party at the grand finale, provided by Shez aka Ben's mum:

Enjoy! Send me pictures! Long John Silver awaits!

Hiya! Are you visiting from Homeschool Freebie of the Day? Nice to meet you! Why not tune in to my feed, or take a peek at my Tumblr, or check out the Idea Box for more interesting lessons and songs? I'd love to hear from you!

Update: If you're trying to download the PDF and you get a message like, "This file is corrupted and can't be fixed," it may be that you do not have the latest version of Acrobat Reader. You can download that from this web site for free.

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