Grocery Store
Learning Goals: Literacy, Reading, Mutually-Directed Play, Addition, Subtraction, Vocabularly, Turn-Taking
- Together, work as a class to create a classroom grocery store.
- Help children to brainstorm the required materials by prompting the class with guiding questions or pictures/books on grocery stores.
- Provide students with classroom resources and found materials to help them create props for their grocery store.
- Work together to create shopping baskets, signs and price tags.
- Encourage students to take on various roles as customers/cashiers to collect and purchase groceries, create receipts, and pay for their food.
- Cardboard and string to create shopping baskets
- Recyclable materials (empty egg cartons, milk cartons, cereal boxes, receipts, etc.)
- Grocery store fliers
- Toy cash register and coins
- Pictures/books on grocery stores
- Both the students and the educator collaboratively designed the play context.
- The educator provided ideas and materials and the students used the materials to design the grocery store.
