Pizza Pizza You're Really Great!

 Pizza Weeks are an interesting combination of real life experience in a grocery store, dramatic play roles of chef, wait staff, and customer, as well as delivery, and cooking, with some pizza like art added to the mix.

practice writing on a receipt

chef!

using the right tools

loading up the pizza delivery truck

role playing, how to ask for what you want in a restaurant

there were lots of shouts of "ring ring ring" that meant it was time to call for pizza

"sauce"

all the ingredients for deliciousness!

kneading the dough

get ready for the toss!

stretch and toss

sauce is next

sprinkle the cheese

done!

just some money for gluing

the chef is in the kitchen

making mini pizzas

 this is a favorite activity, community pizza! First we spread the sauce, then we sprinkle with all sort of collage materials...mushrooms? peppers? cheese? and add extra glue, maybe glitter. When our pizza is cooked (dry) we send home a slice for each child.

Down around the corner in the pizza shop there were 10 pizzas pepperoni on top...along came a friend with a penny in his hand and he took......pizzas and away he ran!

guest reader! one of our own.

ready or not, here we are!

we had a great trip to Price Chopper! We made the pizza, hefted the cheese, touched the lobster, tried out the ice cream freezer, and smelled some flowers. Thank you, Price Chopper!

Until Next Time,
Michele

Read Across America Day !!

"Hi I'm Cat in the Hat. I help Sally and Nick solve their problems and the places they need to go is far away so I fly in a thingamajigger."

"Hi I'm train conductor. I blow the whistle blow the horn off we go whoot whoot the train goes."

"Hi I'm Pippi Longstocking.I can carry my horse and I always get into mischief."

"I'm Mike the Knight. I go to the village to see if everyone's okay."

"Hi I'm Abigail the Breeze Fairy. I'm in a Fairy Ballet."

"I'm Press Here. I do all the pages of the book."

"I'm Toothless the Dragon. I'm the lightning dragon and I'm in the movie."

The Puppet Show!!

meet and greet the puppeteer. We gave Mrs. Helena a high five.

Darcy came in and read Press Here with us.

chicka chicka boom boom!

Sylvie read to us from a book that she had illustrated!

Sylvie drew a character for each one of us!

We had a wonderful day for Read Across America Day, which merited its own blog post. The children did not mind lots of pictures being taken, and told us their stories as their characters. We had a puppet show to start our day and a "meet and greet" with the puppeteer, and then a visit in our classroom with Sylvia Kantorowitz, , a local artist/illustrator who drew each of the children in character after she read from her book. Enjoy!

Until Next Time,
Michele