The Market

The children discovered fruit and vegetables in the sensory table.  They enjoyed naming the fruit and vegetables and talking about favourites.  They started sorting the fruit and veggies by kind.  Next, the children decided that they wanted to change the house centre into a market.  What would it look like?  What would we need? 
The children made a plan.  Mrs. Thomas recorded their thoughts onto chart paper.
-We looked at photos and videos of the market in Ridgeway
-We packed up the items in the house centre that we didn't need
-We labelled the boxes so that they wouldn't get lost in the school
-We turned the house furniture around
-We carried over the baskets of fruit and veggies

The children soon realized that they needed things like paper money; coins; wallets and purses.  They also realized that they didn't have pumpkins or cookies like they saw in the market photos.  They set to work making all the additional items they would need.  The children used paper to create coins, bills, and pumpkins.

While the children were creating the paper bills and the coins for the market they ran into some difficulty.  Sophie realized that she couldn't remember how to make a number 5 and she wanted to get it just right.  We looked around the classroom for a resource that could help us.  We found a number book.  Sophie took the book to the writing centre and carefully copied the number 5 from the book.