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Let’s Pretend . . . Restaurant

Prop and Setting Inspiration

from Tools classrooms

A virtual field trip for teachers

Six flexible, different restaurant-related centers… What restaurants are in your area? What restaurants do your children go to?

Sit Down Restaurant

Local ethnic

restaurant

Cafeteria Fast food (inside) & Drive thru

Ice Cream Shop

Pizza Shop

Lots of

different roles

to play, each

with their own

‘rules’

What do you see

in this center

that would help

you know the

play theme and

kind of

restaurant it is

at a glance?

What do you see in this center that

would help you remember roles and acCons?

What do you see

in this center

that supports

INTERACTIONS

between roles

and

ROLE SPEECH?

Roles: What do you see that will help children

remember their roles and other children’s

roles? (the ‘space’ for a role; role props)

Actions: What do you see that will help

children plan and remember multiple actions

for a role?

Interactions and Role Speech: What do you

see in props and setting design that will

support interaction between roles?

As you take a virtual field trip through

the following classrooms, think about . . .

Fast Food Restaurant

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Fast Food Restaurant

Pizza Parlor

Coffee Shop

Sit Down Restaurant

Chinese, Mexican & Italian Restaurants

Ice Cream Parlor

Drive Thru

Cafeteria

Attractively

displaying your

read aloud

collection of

children’s books

related to your

theme

To think about…

Now it’s your

turn to set up a

classroom

environment to

open the door

to high-level

make-believe

play!

Restaurant Theme

to all the teachers who shared photos

with us and allowed us to take photos in

their classrooms!

Would you like to share photos with us to build

our virtual field trips? You can share them on

our Facebook page at:

www.facebook.com/ToolsoftheMind

or email them to us at

[email protected]

Thank you. . .

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