Thursday, October 10, 2013

Play to Learn, Learn to Play

Dramatic play where have you gone??? That is a question that I am sure so many kindergarten teachers have been wondering. Kids are in such need now days to learn to play, take turns, pretend, and defiantly share. This is something that Mrs. Gordon and I really wanted to see in our kindergarten classrooms this year. So we did it. We added a dramatic play center that will change out every two months or so with something else for the kids to play with. We started our year with a grocery store. We got very resourceful and changed our puppet stand into a checkout counter. We added a little paper and transformed it. We kept that up for August and September. For October and November we turned it into a pizza palace. We created a sign, menu, and an order sheet that the students use to help the imagination take off. The kids really are loving this center.





 




The Pizza Palace

Here is a free printable of our menu and the open and closed sign. Stay tuned to our blog and TPT store for more of our Dramatic play units.


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