Tail feather turkeys

Fun activity..good for number sense and fine motor!

Grocery store/dramatic play

Checkout/cashier

Grocery store/writing

Creating price tags, signs and shopping lists!

Science center

Students sort play food and labels into food groups.

Grocery store centers

Mini rubber Vegetable manipulative..
-numeral recognition
-patterning
-sorting
-one to one correspondence
-vocabulary
-fine motor strength
-counting

Nutrition/Grocery Store Theme

Our next unit is on Nutrition. I am very excited about the activities I  have planned.

Art:

• We will be painting with recyled grocery store items such as the bottoms of cans, plastic bottles and boxes. 
• We will also be trying fruits and vegetable printing.
• Grocery store ad collage
• Creating art with recycled grocery store items
• Painting with crumpled up grocery bags (plastic or paper)
• Drawing, painting and sculpting our favorite foods

Writing:

• Making signs for grocery store items
• Creating our own environmental print
• Creating shopping lists
• Creating price labels and tags for grocery store items
• Salt writing ( trays filled with salt)
• Creating letters with homemade dough
• Using water droppers and ice cube trays
• Tweezers and small plastic food items(or pom poms)into egg cartons
• Using scented markers to create pictures
• Making names with colored rice and glue
• Lacing carboard  recycled food items( cereal box cover)
• Sorting, matching, creating words with  letters from cut out grocery store store adds
• Sorting, matching, creating words  letters from alphabet cereal
• Create a Book of foods we like to eat.

Math:

• Sorting, matching, counting food plastic manipulatives
• matching envirnometal print
• grocery store path game
• Coupon matching
• Fill up your grocery bag game (using spinners/dice, paper grocery bags, plastic or real groceries)
• Environmental print bingo
• sort foods by size, shape and color
• seriate foods
• make patterns with fruit loop cereal and pipe cleaners
• estimate how many grocery items fit into a bag

Science:

• Classifying foods into food groups
• Sort foods by size, shape and color
• Weigh different foods
• Sink and float different food items
• Dissolve various food solvents (flour,cornstarch,salt,sugar)
• Sort foods into groups of healthy and not health foods
• Grow carrots and potatoes

Dramatic Play/Social Studies:

• Transform dramatic play area into grocery store
• Add empty grocery store items
• Have shopping lists for students to fill out
• Signs for children to match grocery store items
• Add Grocery Carts and Baskets
• Add Grocery store aprons and name tags
• Add student created money
• Add Student created signs
• Create map of grocery store
• Walk to neighborhood store and buy a snack

Songs:
LET'S GO TO THE GROCERY STORE Tune: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
Let’s go to the grocery store,
Grocery store, grocery store.
Let’s go to the grocery store
To get some food to eat.
We’ll buy bread and eggs and milk,
Eggs and milk, eggs and milk.
We’ll buy bread and eggs and milk
And ice cream for a treat

Heather McPhail

Repeat the song, letting your children name other foods to buy at the grocery store.

What Will You Buy?

(tune: Farmer in the Dell)

Submitted by Freta

What will you buy? What will you buy?
What will you buy At the grocery store?
Jars and Cans. Jars and Cans.
Jars and Cans at the Grocery Store.
Apples and bananas. Apples and bananas.
Apples and bananas At the grocery store.
Meat and Veggies. Meat and Veggies.
Meat and Veggies at the grocery store.

Idea: Make up your own verses

Shopping Song

Submitted by Charlene

A shopping we will go, a shopping we will go.
We will buy some vegetables, a shopping we will go.
A shopping we will go, a shopping we will go,
We will buy some cinnamon buns, a shopping we will go.
A shopping we will go, a shopping we will go.
We will buy some wonderful snacks, a shopping we will go.
Read Alouds:

http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/grocery/books.php
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/health/books.php
The Hungry Caterpillar
Shopping with Daddy
Gregory the Terrible eater
Lunch
Growing fruits and vegatables
The Market

LINKS:
http://www.preschoolexpress.com/theme_station05/nov05_grocery.shtml
http://www.beansproutspreschool.com/2010/10/preschool-grocery-store-theme.html
http://pinterest.com/collinsclan08/preschool-nutritionhttp://www.homeschoolshare.com/grocery_store_lapbook.php-grocery-store/
http://www.kidsparkz.com/supermarket.html
http://thoughtfulspotdaycare.blogspot.com/2012/01/grocery-store-dramatic-play.html
http://pinterest.com/suehills/dramatic-play/