Letter P

Lots of these ideas came from Perpetual Preschool

Color: Yellow (cheese, popcorn kernels)

Shape: Triangle (pizza slices)

Math:

• Counting pepperoni pieces on felt pizza's; Attempt putting them in order (1-6)
• discussion of fractions (1/2); Use large pizza shape (red paper plate) cut in half.

Nursery Rhyme:

• Pussycat, Pussycat, Where have you been?

Science:

• Cooking! What do you mix together for pizza crust? How does pizza dough rise?

Social Studies:

• Presidents! A general overview of what presidents do, and who chooses them.

Reading:


Snack:

• Ritz crackers pizza: Ritz crackers, shredded cheese, pepperoni, pizza sauce. Make a poster for sequencing of making this project. Cracker, sauce, pepperoni, cheese. Put in toaster oven until cheese melts. Yummy!
• Popcorn

Craft:

• The children take a round paper plate and color it red for sauce. Then they are free to create any type of pizza by adding shredded yellow and white paper for cheese, pink triangles for ham, yellow triangles for pineapple, red circles for pepperoni, brown circles for sausage, etc. It is a great time with glue and creating
  
• Popcorn Art- Cut out popcorn shapes from white paper. Give the children glop of yellow and white finger paint and let them have fun. Couldn't keep up with the requests to make another. When dried, hole punch and string around bulletin board, or hang in window.
  
• Make a paper bag puppet.
  

Field Trip:

• Visit a puppet show.
  

Fine Motor:

• Decorate a round piece of cardboard to look like a pizza with markers or construction paper. Cut the pizza into "slices", using irregular cutting lines to form a puzzle.
• Opposites Puzzles
• Lacing--Porpoise

Gross Motor:

• Pop like popcorn!!! to this chant, then have snack:
  Pop Goes The Popcorn (Sung to the tune: Davy Crocket)
  Pop goes the popcornCan't you see!It is jumping Just like me!I can't wait until it's doneThen I get to eat it, oh what fun!Popcorn, oh popcorn!You make my tummy hum!
  
• Pizza Sequence: outline a large piece of pizza on the floor, add pepperoni, cheese, mushrooms, peppers, onions (whatever you choose). Have child hop from one thing to another in a sequence: pepperoni, cheese, mushroom. pepper, pepperoni, onion. for example
  
• Pizza toss: Cut out shapes of pizza toppings from magazines or print from your computer. Then glue onto cardboard. Optional to last longer laminate them (clear contact paper works for laminating if a machine is not available). Place a pizza pan onto the floor and have the children stand a ways away from the pan. have them try to throw the pizza shapes onto the pan to make a pizza. It is also neat if you cover the pan in orange paper to act as the sauce/cheese. Once topping made it you covered the pizza. It may be a little challenging, but it is also very fun for them.
  

Music:

• To the tune of "BINGO"
  There is a pizza that I like, and it is very yummy. P-I-Z-Z-A, P-I-Z-Z-A, etc.
  On my pizza I like _____________ and it is very yummy. P-I-Z-Z-A, etc.
• I have a fun pizza song and flannel board activity. There is a flannel board song about a Donut Shop, I changed it to Pizza Shop. I made slices of pizza with pepperoni on top. Use different numbers of pepperoni and you also have a counting activity,
  "Down around the corner in the pizza shop" "There were lots of pieces of pizza with pepperoni on top" "Along came (insert child's name) all aloneHe/she bought one that had (how many pepperoni there are on that slice) pepperoni" "And took it home"
  Repeat until all slices of pizza are gone.

Concept:

• Please and Thank You!

Games:

• parachute play with yellow/white paper balled up like popcorn; pop all the popcorn out

Sensory:

• popcorn kernels;

Toddler:

I'll let him paint his tray with pizza sauce!