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Lots O’ Logos
Collect empty cereal boxes, empty boxes from familiar food items, and other
familiar containers. Choose items with a logo or symbol representing a product
that the children can identify easily. Examples of logos are the golden arches
from McDonald’s, the dominoes symbol from Domino’s Pizza, and the word
“Cheerios.”
Put the items in the Dramatic Play Center with other things that represent a
restaurant theme such as aprons, a chef’s hat, a table and chairs, dishes, and
silverware.
Listen as the children “read” the labels as they play “restaurant.”
Cultural Tip
Include logos from products from the different home cultures of
the children in your class.
What’s It All About?
Choose a “big book” such as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie or If You Give a Pig a
Pancake by Laura Numeroff with large pictures that clearly reflect the content
of the story.
Go through the book looking at the pictures, but not reading the words. Ask the
children to tell what they see in the pictures. Ask,“What do you think the story
is about?”
Read the book, allowing a child to come up and turn the pages. Read it immediately
after looking at the pictures if the children are still interested or wait and
do it later when the children are ready to listen again.
After you have finished the story, close the book and ask a few questions about
what happened. Accept all answers and expect the children to remember only a
few things that happened.
Put the book where the children can “read” it again. Be sure to show them how
to treat books gently and with care.
Special Needs Tip
Glue tabs on the pages’ edges so children with fine motor
difficulties can turn them easily.