The Restaurant and 1st Class Business Proposals

We have been learning all about food and restaurants for November. The children have been setting up restaurants in their pods, constructing new restaurants for Trim and making food out of playdough, as well as doing lots of drawing and recipe writing and reading! This week we looked at mapping and the children made amazing maps during Aistear too! Have a look: 

 Rang 1 also did up business proposals for a new restaurant in Trim! They put so much work into these. Each group needed to come up with a name, logo, blueprints and 3D model, sample menus and more! 

group 1

Follow this link to see group 2's proposal: 

Group 2 Proposal

Restaurant Dioramas

The Junior and Senior Infants amazed me over the past two weeks with the incredible dioramas they planned and created in small groups. Last week they got a shoebox and planned what they wanted their restaurant to look like. They also started on the 2D aspects of their plan, such as wallpaper, carpets, etc. This week they had to construct tables, chairs, people, ovens, walls...their creativity and resourcefulness were amazing! There were LOADS of problem solving, spatial awareness, oral language and social skills developed through this art project.

Menus on the fancy table cloth

The lights were a great idea, and the posters on the wall!

The only group to have the kitchen...the pizza in the oven looks yummy!

Comfy seats!

This group wanted people that they could move around the restaurant!

Brilliant problem solving with this group when they discovered a new way to make the adults stand up at the table

A lot of teamwork went into this diorama as the 3 girls split the jobs equally!

The Restaurant

Here you can see the other stations for playtime this week. Table 1 was a play-dough station were the children could make food and use markers to label them. I couldn't believe how well the Juniors could figure out what sounds were in what words!!! The art station was great fun-the children had to imagine their favourite dish and construct it using WHATEVER art materials they wanted. There was some amazing creativity here. The role play are was the restaurant. The children got into roles (e.g. customers, chef, waitress) and used props to engage with the drama. They were absolutely brilliant at this station. There was lots of appropriate language, social interactions, free writing, sequencing events...and it was fun too! 

Construction Station

Here are some clips of the construction station during playtime. The children were given the task of designing, planning and building their own restaurant. They are developing drawing skills, spatial awareness, imaginative thinking and motor skills. There's English, Maths, Science, Art and SPHE. This station also provides opportunities for team work, oral language, problem solving and more! 

Food Theme

We have been learning about food this month in the classroom! Here are some pictures of what we have been doing for playtime.

Our Drama corner is a restaurant! Everyone takes it in turns to be the customers, the waiter or waitress and the chef! The children take orders, cook the food and get the bill. 

We have also been making playdough foods:

We played some bingo to practice our new Gaeilge words: 

Sorted pictures of food into their shapes to reinforce our Maths for this week:

We sorted foods onto healthy and unhealthy plates:

We read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and talked about the different foods he ate. What ones were healthy and unhealthy? What did he eat on Monday? How many plums did he eat? Here are our Very Hungry Handprint Caterpillars...on the ceiling!!!

We also did some still life drawing this week. There was a bowl of fruit in the middle of the table and the children had to draw what they could see in front of them! Here is our classroom art gallery:

We will be doing more fun food activities next week to continue our learning!