Dramatic Play Mexican Restaurant

Why we need to create different types of dramatic play for our little ones

Dramatic play gives our little ones a safe place to act out the things that they see the adults in their lives doing every day. It gives them an opportunity to experiment and see how things work. 

Dramatic play helps children develop

Problem Solving Skills

Knowledge on how the real world works

Language Skills

Cooperation and Sharing with Others

Imagination

Creative Thinking

Our Mexican Restaurant

Our restaurant sits just outside of our home living center.

To go orders

Looking at menu and finding money to pay.

If you look in the back of the picture you will see the stove area and worktable to prepare the orders.

Food is served.

The day before the restaurant was up and running we asked the children thing that we would need for the restaurant.  The first thing they said was money.  So off they went to the writing area to make their own money.  

 Here is some of the money they made. 

You can find the printable for this dramatic play on Pre-K Pages

Pet Shop :Unit

We stared our unit off by reading the book The Perfect Pet

After reading the book we had a class discussion on what we would need to do to help the pets.

 We had a class discussion on what types of animals would make good pets and what types of animals would not. 

Pocket Chart Story using the children's names.

The children enjoyed rereading the pet story over and over so that they could hear and see their name.

Small Group Activities

Fish Bowl Letter Bingo

Calling cards are in lowercase letters and the fishbowl mat is uppercase letters.

Counting and Writing

Children were given small cats and dog counters with number mats and dry markers.  Children identified the number on the dog house and then counted out the amount of pets and placed them on the mat.  Once they had completed that they used dry markers to write the number.

Doggy letter match 

Children match the dogs to the right dog house by using the letters on each.

Art Studio

Children had the opportunity to go to the art studio and make pets of their choice.  

Here is what some of them came up with

 If you are looking for ideas for a Pet Shop Theme Lesson Plan, you can find one on TPT and TNB.

Teachers Pay Teachers

Teachers Notebook

Teachers Pay Teachers

Teachers Notebook

St. Patrick's Day Freebie

Looking to bring in a little bit of green for St. Patrick's day?  Well here is a set of number cards that can be used for your calendar time or in your math center to build on number order and patterning.  All you need to do is download and print.

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Come a Board Freebie Math Game

I am getting ready to start my unit on transportation this week and I needed to dust off a little old and update some of my small group activities so...

I thought you might like the dusted off version of one of my most popular games in the classroom and that is my math game Say It, Count It, and Write It math game.

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Build number knowledge with these fun for children math game mats. Say It, Count It, Write It math games are a great activity for children to build an understanding that numbers represent a quantity.

This freebie comes with one of each

Plane

Bus

Train

Freaky Friday Freebie Blog Hop

Spiders Creeping, Bats Flying and Jack O Lanterns all Alight it's time for some Halloween fun.  Let's give the children some fun and freaky activities that are sure to spark the interest of all with a fun blog hop around.

Counting Teeth with candy corns math mats

Your children will be counting to 20 before you know it with these fun teeth counting cards.  All you will need is some candy corn.   

My little ones did not want to get up from this fun activity.  They thought it was funny making their Halloween friend have a lot of funny teeth.

Blog Hop Party Rules

Your link must go directly to a blog post with photos and a link to your free item.  The post must also include the image above and a link back to this post.  

Little Friendly Ghosts Math Game Freebie

Not only will your little ones be counting and recognizing number, but they will also be doing addition with this fun new twist to my original Say It, Count It, Write It game mats.

Build number knowledge with these fun for children math games. Say It, Count It, Write It math games are a great activity for children to build an understanding that numbers represent a quantity.

 You can down load the Little Friendly Ghosts Math Game on Teachers Pay Teachers.

I found my graphics from the Graphics from the Pond

For more Little Friendly Ghosts teaching resources go to the link party

Hopping Good Times

We had a great week with our friend Hoppy. 

We made paper plate bunnies

We counted bunnies

We made bunny baskets

We made bunny ears

We colored eggs

With our faces painted and our bunny ears on we got ready for an egg hunt

 With all 842 eggs hidden we hopped around to outside play area gather eggs.

Special Thanks to all of my wonderful parents!  We could not of done this without your support.