Pizza Restaurant!

Setting up a Pizza Restaurant in our classroom allows us the space and time to play with social roles in the community, communication skills, dramatic play situations, and also some baking. We visit the pizza theme in our artwork; with  color, creating layers, and shapes (lots of circles). We sing some funny pizza songs, and read books about pizza and restaurants and grocery stores, most notably Pete's a Pizza  by William Steig, a classic that has a father pretending to make his son into a pizza. The children bring pizza boxes and paper pizzas into the dress up area, call each other on the classroom "phones", and have even been making pizzas on their own with paper and markers and scissors, which they then add to the collection.  There's a lot of agency and action in our classroom!

 "Down around the corner in the pizza shop there were 10 pizzas, pepperoni on top! Along came ________with a penny in her hand and she took ______pizza and away she ran! " We sing this song together and each child has a chance to count up how many pizzas they will be taking and how many will be left.

Until Next Time,
Michele