March 28, 2024

Children of Rehoboth Head Start Make Pizza and Snow Sculptures

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The children of the Citizens for Citizens Inc. Rehoboth Head Start have recently completed their annual unit on PIZZA with a Family Pizza Making Event. The event was rescheduled 3 times due to the winter snowstorms. The event involves having the children, along with their families make their OWN pizzas from start to finish and enjoy the companionship of other families with games and music. The night ended with a bedtime story with a special visitor “Curious George” the puppet who joined Miss Pam for the event.

The annual unit includes opportunities for the children to engage in various forms of learning about Pizza in the areas of math (fractions and graphing favorites) , dramatic play in their imaginary Pizza Shop in the classroom, complete with menus, phones, play money, aprons and ovens. A sensory table with “pizza” play dough (scented with Italian seasoning) a giant “oven”, pans and boxes, cutting tools, hats and aprons. Music was enjoyed with learning to spell “Pizza” and learning various other poems and songs.

The class also won the Citizens for Citizens Inc. agency challenge for doing the most acts of Kindness and Justice....over 900 acts were done by the children and families. For this they won a Pizza and ice cream party at school, each getting certificates and prizes. The class also enjoys an annual tour of Papa Ginos on Winthrop Street in Taunton!

Another highlight of the unit is the class making a huge 8-10 foot bird seed "pizza” outside the classroom window in the snow. This years making of the “Pizza The Size of the Sun” derived from the poem written by Jack Pulaski, was a bit of a challenge due to the amount of snow. It took over 2 hours of shoveling to clear the area so the children could even make their way to it. The children were joined by their family members in the making. Although it got buried a few more times with more snow falling the birds and squirrels were able to find it and enjoy. The children have enjoyed watching several different types of birds arrive each and every day. They refer to a bird chart and try to figure out what type it is. We have had cardinals, robins, doves, bluebirds, and chickadees to name a few. The outside pizza was made from corn on the cobs saved from a fall field trip to a corn maze, broken up bread, various fruits and vegetables that were cut up and prepared by the children, and over 300 pounds of various birdseeds donated by Bay State Pet and Garden Center of Taunton and the Munroe Feed and Supply of Rehoboth.

While we enjoyed our annual winter theme activity, we look forward to the spring weather coming and seeing the various birds arrive every day is giving us hope that it is around the corner.

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