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.

Implementation