Theme Goals
- Trough participating in the experiences provided by this
theme, the children may learn:
- The basic ingredients of bread.
Concept for the children to learn
- There are many kinds of breads.
- Breads are important for good health.
- Bread is called the staff of life
- The basic ingredients used preparing bread are flour, water
and/ or milk, and shortening.
- Bread can be prepared in homes, bakeries, supermarkets and
restaurants.
- Bread can be large or small size
- Bread can have different
flavors
- Some breads contain a fruit filling and are called sweet
rolls.
- Breads can be shaped in to different form, twisted and
oblong.
- Bread can be hard or soft
- Breads can be part of meal or snack.
Vocabulary
- Bread__a food prepared by mixing flour or grain meal with water or milk and
shortening
- Crust__the outside part of the bread
- Leaven__a food that makes the bread dough rise
- Flour__wheat that has been ground to a soft powder
Bulletin Board
The purpose of this bulletin board is to promote visual
discriminations skills and call attention to various types of baked goods.
Create this bulletin board by drawing baked goods on piece of tag board as
illustrated. Pictures form magazines could also be used. If drawn, color and
add detail to the bakery items with felt-tip makers, cut out, and laminate.
Trace the pieces onto black construction paper. Count out the pieces and attach
to the bulletin board. Use map tacks or adhesive magnet pieces for children to
match the corresponding baked good to its shadow.
Dramatic Play
Bakery
Prepare the housekeeping are to resemble a bakery where the
children can pretend to make breads and bake goods to sell to their classmates
as customers. Provide the following items: aprons, baker’s hats, bowls, mixing
spoons, pans, rolling pins, muffin thins, measuring cups, egg cartoons, empty
bread/roll mix boxer, oven mitts or hot pads, a cash register, and
poster/pictures depicting baked goods.
Restaurant
Prepare the house keeping area as a restaurant. Provide
props such as a tablecloth, dishes, cooking utensils, and a cash register with
play money. Create menus by cutting picture form magazines and gluing on to
construction paper. Include pictures of different baked goods.
Arts and Crafts
Provide magazine for the children to find and cut out
pictures of different types of breads. These pictures can be glued
or pasted to a pieces of construction paper or a paper plate, creating a
bread college.
Fill muffin tins with various colors of paint in the art
area for the children to use. Pastry brushes
could be used as paint applications.
Cut sponges into different shape s and types of
bread. Place the sponges and shallow trays of tempera paint on the art table.
The children can dip a sponge into the paint and then press it onto a piece of
paper to create a bread-shaped print.
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