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Communication Board in Boardmaker for Windows format for Today is Monday by Eric Carl. You must have Boardmaker for Windows in order to use this file. --submitted by Kim Kahn

Take a field trip to the grocery store. We had a great experience. We saw the inner workings of the butcher area, produce coolers, and bakery. Thank you, Weis Market! For a thank you card, we sponge painted a bunch of circles to resemble grapes and wrote "Thank you berry much."
Set up your creative play area as a grocery store. Use a picture sequence to help the children learn the steps involved in "pretending" at the grocery store.

Make fruit juice or fruit salad and vegetable soup on different days. Use these experiences as a more concrete way to sort fruits and vegetables. "Does a potato go in the soup or the juice? Yes, the soup. It is a vegetable."
Apple turnovers - crescent rolls, apples, sugar, cinnamon. Kids cut up their own apples and mix in bowl with sugar and cinnamon. Make their own turnover. Bake.

Use this Intellipics game to step through a pizza recipe. Pizzarcpe.zip contains pizzarcpe.ipc which is an Intellipics game in Windows format. Intellipics for Windows or Intellipics Player is required to use this file.
Turn this into a unit on restaurants, culmintating in a field trip to a local pizza joint
Set up the drammatic play area as a pizza restaurant
Have the kids practice making pizzas using english muffins or bagels for the crust. Then invite the parents to your newly established pizza restaurant. Have the kids take their orders and serve up the pizzas.
I bought a $10 pizza oven toy at KB Toys. It had a four slice pizza with a choice of toppings, pizza cutter, and even a timer that would really go off. It was the best investement ever!
Use goldfish crackers as "anchovies" --submitted by Linda Bastiani

Use this boarkmaker file for Today is Monday by Eric Carle --submitted by Kim Khan
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