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The Pizza Project, Discussing experiences, sharing knowledge, raising…
The Pizza Project
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Process of planning
Phase 3: Culminating event,collaborative evaluation, further activities
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- Discussing experiences, sharing knowledge, raising questions and inform parents.
- Brainstorming together with all the children, ask few questions: Where can u get pizza? What you need to
make and eat pizza? What is the toppings of pizza?
- Teachers write down the children’s ideas to let children see similar ideas.
- After the project, there will be an exhibition for parents and other people to view, and soliciting comments from parents.
- When teachers found out that the interaction between children share the project to parents is important. they held an activity so that children can describe what they have done in the project to parents.
- At the end of each project, the teachers review the Illinois Early Learning Standards and post the benchmarks that were met over the course of the project.
- Then, add this list at the end of our project documentation so parents can see how valuable project work is for young children.
- Teachers solicited comments from families about the Pizza Project.
- The child showed more interest in how food was prepared after that experience and often tries to help out in the kitchen.
- Parent was amazed that a group of 3 to 5-year-olds could cooperate and perform major tasks on their own initiative.
- The Pizza Project was another great example of how the ISU Child Care Center teachers nurture children's minds by providing opportunities for them to work as a team and solve problems together
- Teachers initiated a discussion about possible topics for a project investigation.
- They started out by reminding the children of the spider project that they had completed during the fall semester and told the children that we were ready to begin a new project.
- Children and teachers gather for Morning Meeting—a time when we discuss the current project, share information about the project, and plan that day’s work.
Phase 2 of a project include: conducting fieldwork, discussing activities that are occurring in small groups, investigating questions.
- Display documentation in the hallway for parents and children to refer to as the project progresses.
- Teacher contacts a child (Dan) to be a delivery guys and let children dictated questions for Dan.
- Printed out a pizza menu, let children discuss and reviewed different sizes of pizza.
- Children measure and cut circles of paper to match the pizza’s sizes. (6” to 18”)
- Teacher ask children to list the item that can be found in pizza restaurant.
- The children also dictated a thank-you letter for Dan by decorated it by drawing pizza and add their signatures on the next page.
- A child collected small circles of paper and shares with her friends to make mini pizzas
- A parent brought some pizza boxes and let children look and read the menu.
- Using the pizza boxes, children have dramatic play, for example delivery operation.
- Dramatic play on going in the class, children created pizza using the unit blocks.
- Arranged for four small groups to visit the pizza restaurants.
- Let children to list questions to ask he staff and they answered and explained all the children’s questions.
- Let children shared the information that they learned and compare their experiences with friends.
- Children make field sketches while visiting the restaurant. (Pizza and employee)
- Lastly, children wrote some letter to thank the employees and also created a book of memory drawings from the field visits.
- Pizza-themed play throughout the class, children might be interested in developing a more elaborate stage.
- Children do the art and craft of the object they observed in the field visit. (Conveyor belt, oven, sign and the fish tank of the restaurant)
- Also making pizzas, breadsticks and salads by play dough and paper scraps.
- Let children use the craft that done by themselves.
- The children happily served each other, teachers, parents, and all the visitors to the classroom.