The Supermarket

The children have been learning all about the role of the cashier this week during our Community Helpers topic. We had a visit from Asda this week to talk to the children about Asda workers. The children have developed their imaginary and role play skills playing in the supermarket taking on roles of both the cashier and the customer. They have had to work together with other children, practise good waiting and turn taking skills. They have made choices selecting their own shopping and took it to the checkout before bagging it up and taking it home. Children have been encouraged to communicate with each other, greeting their customer, being polite etc. Children have also had to pay for their shopping, using milk bottle tops and giving E.Y.P.'s the correct numbers of 'pennies'. Children have also been practising, learning and developing their counting and number skills using real pennies and number cards. They were encouraged to count, add together, identify numerals, give a particular number. This activity was greatly differentiated to suit the needs and the abilities of each individual child and E.Y.P.'s made observations to asses children's development. The malleable tray was enhanced with food items in bags. This activity is great for developing children's language skills, learning and using lots of descriptive words. Children played a physical shopping game outside, developing their running skills and their ability to negotiate space and obstacles safely and they used creative materials to make their own shopping basket. E.Y.P.'s then encouraged children to count items and attempt to write the numb

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