Dear Families, 

     The dramatic play center is Gingy's Bakery.  We will build math, literacy, and social skills during our pretend play!

     Math is everywhere in a bakery!  If they are the baker or baker's assistant, they will measure and count the ingredients as they bake yummy treats.  They will be counting the number of bakery items on the cookie tray.  Then, they'll do informal addition and subtraction to determine how many more or fewer they must make to complete a customer's order.  Baker's assistants count the money and write numerals on order forms and receipts!  If they are customers, they have to count their money to pay for their yummy treats and check their order to make sure it is correct. 

     Some social skills students develop during pretend play include self-regulation, turn-taking, sharing, waiting, controlling impulses, and expressing feelings through appropriate gestures, actions, and words.

     Please support your child's pretend play by giving them the experience of being an actual customer in an authentic bakery!  Before you go, draw and write a shopping list.  Please have your child order what they want to buy and let your child pay the cashier.  To complete the experience, eat the yummy bakery items at the bakery!

     Thank you for supporting our learning!