Unit: Food Pretend and Learn Theme: Holiday Gift Wrapping Kindergarten Pretend and Learn Lesson Whole Group Introduction to Center Center Introduction Before a new Pretend and Learn area is made available to students during center time it should be introduced to the whole class. This helps ensure all students know appropriate roles they make take on and have a basic knowledge of the concepts within the pretend and learn center. To introduce a center you might consider: Statues: Naming different roles(cook, Mom, Farmer) one might take on in the center and asking students to make frozen statues (take on silent and still poses) that show something someone in that role might do (Example: A chef might stir, decorate a cake, lick a spoon) name out some of the things you see statues doing Idea and Movement: Ask students what kinds of things do do? after a child answers the teacher asks them to show with their body what that action would look like. Once the child shows their movement for the action the teacher repeats the movement then the whole class tries the movement. Get 3-5 responses per role. Artifact: Bring out a few objects (or use pictures) from your new pretend and learn center. Invite students to tell you what see when they look at the object (color, size, shape, etc.), share what they know about the object (what its name is) and finally what it might be used for or do. http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/dbi/content/artifacts Other resources can be found at http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/dbi/teaching_strategies Center Organization: Ask families to send in empty boxes of varying sizes for students to practice wrapping skills. Store them in one section of the center area. Prepare center by hanging a roll of wrapping paper from the horizontal bar of a pocket chart stand. Students should be able to cut off pieces of paper as needed to wrap boxes. Designate 4 areas of the center for students to use-shopping, wrapping, addressing and paying. Home living furniture may be wrapped in butcher paper and/or turned on the side to create work spaces for the wrapping station. Laminate and cut out name tags. Provide plenty of baskets/bins for students to keep materials sorted. Center Participation: Students progress through four stations. They choose a box. Wrap it with wrapping paper. Complete a gift tag and tape it on. Pay for the gift, wrapping paper and bow. Students write lists of what they would like to buy or who they would like to buy for. Students think of elf name and using a vis-à-vis pen, write it on nametag. Students write a letter to Santa. Content Area Supported Social Studies- Customs and traditions Vocabulary English and Spanish vocabulary cards are located below Materials
Pencils and/or markers or crayons, aprons, holiday hats (Santa, elf or reindeer antlers), gift tags, rolls of wrapping paper or gift bags, tape, scissors, empty boxes of varying sizes, cash register, play money, holiday lights, play phone or cell phone. Literature: Santa s Stuck by Rhonda Gowler Greene Connections The Littlest Christmas Tree by R.A. Herman How Santa Got His Job by Steven Krensky The Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner Bear Stays Up by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman Biscuit s Hanukkah by Alyssa Satin Capucilli Hanukkah by Roni Schotter Writing: 1. Create a shopping list, or a list of people to give gifts to. 2. Wrap a gift (empty box) and fill out a gift tag to show who it is to and from. 3. Write a letter to Santa. Technology: camera- Have students take pictures of each other dressed as an elf. Example Pictures http://www.pre-kpages.com/dramatic-play-holiday-wrapping-center/
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