- blocks
- labeled empty food cans and cartons
- paper bags
- pictures of food
- plastic toy food
- play money
- shoe boxes
- toy cash register
- groceries
- grocery
- ingredients
- vegetable
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.5: Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
English Language Arts/Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
Language/L.PK.MA.5.a: Demonstrate understanding of concepts by sorting common objects into categories (e.g., sort objects by color, shape, or texture).
Mathematics/Measurement and Data/PK.MD.MA.3: Sort, categorize, and classify objects by more than one attribute.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions: Structure and Properties of Matter/PS1.A: Describe, compare, sort and classify objects based on observable physical characteristics, uses, and whether it is manufactured as part of their classroom play and investigations of the natural and human-made world.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity: Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation: Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects.
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.
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 8: Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Grocery Store #2
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Skill Focus: Environmental Print, Imaginative Play, Sorting and Classifying, Vocabulary
Have children build a grocery store where they will shop for ingredients for a special dish of their choosing. Help children build and stock the grocery store with canned goods and/or play food. Sort and organize the food, for example, fruits, vegetables, cereals, dairy products (milk, butter/margarine, cottage cheese/yogurt, etc.) Encourage children to write prices on food items by checking out the real prices in grocery store flyers.
Educator Tip: To help encourage children’s learning of ethnic foods they have not been exposed to, help children “supply” their grocery store with ethnic foods and vegetables, especially the Mexican foods and Chinese vegetables (find canned versions if necessary) featured in this week’s readings.
Educator Tip: You may want to ask families to send in clean, empty food containers for the grocery store.