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Dramatic Play Restaurant
Hey! Let’s pretend! A Dramatic Play Restaurant is definitely a place where your students can pretend! Preschoolers need to dream and imagine. They need to dress up and role play. They need to problem solve, think, and create. Dramatic Play provides plenty of opportunities for children to work on language development, social skills, and critical thinking. But the main thing about this center is just playing and having FUN! Role Play in a Familiar Setting When my preschoolers were learning about the state of Georgia, I decided to transform our homeliving area into THE GRILL Dramatic Play Restaurant! Our version of THE GRILL was based on the world famous VARSITY restaurant in downtown…
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Five for Friday: The Peach State
My class has been busy learning about the great state of Georgia…otherwise known as the “Peach State“! I’m linking with blogging hostess Kacey for her Five for Friday to share what we’ve been doing this week! After reading several books about MAPS, including Joan Sweeney’s Me on the Map, we created maps of our town. The kids enjoyed adding all the various sights they see on their way to school…including grandma’s house, a gas station, and Target. The maps are hanging on display in the hall right now but we’ve got plans to put them to good use in the Block center next week. Our main project during the Georgia…
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Five for Friday the 13th
It never crossed my mind when we put the 13 on our calendar that it was actually Friday the 13th! We had a great Friday the 13th at school…no mischief, no superstitions, nothing unlucky. Now to start off the weekend, here’s this week’s Five for Friday. We’ve had some crazy, mixed up weather this week so I thought I’d share our door decoration. March is definitely coming in like a lion as we’ve had everything from unseasonably sunny high 70’s to big booming thunderstorms and lots of windy weather. One of my little learners shared this amazing SIX leaf clover with her classmates! We worked on the -ing word family and made…
