Pizza Parlor Math

     I was very excited to finally get everything ready for the Pizza Parlor in Dramatic Play! The best part is, the kids loved it when I introduced it. It is a way to change up "House Area" to make it more exciting, but it is a way to incorporate LOTS of math into play:) There is geometry, symbolism, sorting, counting, and reading involved in this pretend play experience.
     I used paper plates as pizza crust, large red circles for sauce, yellow triangles for cheese, small orange circles for pepperoni, brown squares for mushrooms, green rectangles for peppers, and black ovals for olives. Each "topping" is sorted into bowls and students will have to resort every time they disassemble a pizza.

I created menus with the symbols for each topping and laminated them (I tried really hard to upload the pdf for download, but couldn't figure out how to do it!). The "server" will use a dry erase marker to check the boxes of each topping the customer wants before giving the order to the cook. When the pizza is made, the server and customer check the order form to ensure the order is correct. After the customer "pays", the menu is easily erased to be used again!