- colored felt or foam
- foam packing materials
- four placemats
- large bowl
- marker
- plastic fruits and vegetables
- plastic plates
- plastic spoons or chopsticks
- poster board
- seeds
- fruit
- ingredients
- vegetable
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation: Engages in pretend play and acts out roles.
Approaches to Learning/Cooperation: Plans, initiates, and completes learning activities with peers.
Approaches to Learning/Cooperation: Joins in cooperative play with others and invites others to play.
Social Emotional Development/Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy: Demonstrates age-appropriate independence in decision making regarding activities and materials.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 4: Engage in play experiences that involve naming and sorting common words into various classifications using general and specific language.
Preparing Dinner
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Skill Focus: Concepts of Print, Imaginative Play, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Draw a place setting on a sheet of poster board and hang it near the table in the center so children can follow along when setting their table for dinner. Cut small shapes out of colored felt to make diced carrots, onions, meat and other ingredients.
Encourage children to make their own version of bee-bim bop and then serve it for dinner. Point out all the ingredients available. Let children discuss and select ingredients to put in the big bowl. Encourage them to talk about what types of food (vegetable, meat) they are putting in the bee-bim bop and what plant part (leaf, stem, root) each ingredient comes from.
- Invite children to top their creations with a paper or fabric egg.
- Point out the diagram that shows how to set a table and have children set a table for four and invite guests to their dinner.