Café
Sponsored by the Meruelo Family
One of the most popular places in the City is the café. Role-play opportunities abound in an area rich with pretend menus, ovens, stoves, and a variety of pretend foods just waiting to be prepared and served up to eager parents and grandparents. Pretend City is committed to providing children with exposure to many diverse cultures and ways of life. To help accomplish this, the café exhibit will change every four months to feature different foods from around the world!
The following are some of the activities which will support brain developing connections and California State Educational Content Standards that are addressed at the café.
| When I play with pretend food, my brain makes learning connections to: | Activity Meets Content Standard #: |
| Concepts of shape, size, length and location; reading and math skills | Mathematics: K2.0, K2.1, K2.2 |
| Create and repeat patterns; math skill | Mathematics: K1.2 1-2.2, 1-2.4, 1-2.1 2-2.0, 2-2.1 3-2.5, 3-2.6 Visual Arts: PK2.1 |
| Develop and exercise imagination and creativity | Visual and Performing Arts: PK2.0, K1.0, K2.0 1-1.0, 1-2.0 2-1.0 3-1.0, 3-2.0 |
| Express myself using words | Performing Art/Theatre: PK5.1, PK2.0 K2.0, K5.1 1-2.0 3-2.0 |
| Cooperate with others | Performing Art/Theatre: 2-2.1 |
| When I sort things, my brain makes learning connections to: | Activity Meets Content Standard #: |
| Notice details, likeness, differences and to form categories; reading and math skills | Mathematics: K1.0, K1.1, K1.2, K2.0 1-2.0, 1-2.1, 1-1.0 2-2.1, 2-1.3, 2-2.0 3-2.0 |
| Concepts of color, size and shape | Mathematics: K1.1, K1.2, K2.0 1-2.0, 1-2.2, 1-1.1 2-2.1 3-2.2, 3-2.5 |
| Distinguish between number concepts such as more and less | Mathematics: K1.0, K1.1, K1.3 1-1.3, 1-1.4, 1-2.3, 1-1.2 2-1.1, 2-1.2, |
| Develop and evaluate events using inferences and predictions based on data (Logical reasoning) | Mathematics: K2.0, K2.1 1-3.1, 1-2.0, 1-2.1 2-1.0, 2-1.4, 2-2.0, 2-2.1, 2-2.2 2-1.2 3-1.0, 3-1.1, 3-1.2, 3-2.3 |
| Understand patterns and how they are related (Organizational Skills) | Mathematics: K2.0, K2.1 1-1.0, 1-1.1 2-1.0, 2-1.1 3- 3.2 |
| When I role-play, my brain makes learning connections to: | Activity Meets Content Standard #: |
| Express myself using words | Performing Art/Theatre: PK2.0 K2.0, K5.1 1-2.0 2-2.0 3-2.0 |
| Experiment with various adult roles | Performing Art/Theatre: PK2.2 K1.2 2-2.3 |
| Solve social problems through negotiation with others | Performing Art/Theatre: 2-2.1, 2-5.1, 2-5.2 3-5.1, 3-5.2 |
| Sort and organize play things | Performing Art/Theatre: K2.3 2-2.4 |
| Improvise and use things in a symbolic way to represent something else ( abstract thinking) | Performing Art/Theatre: K2.3 1-2.1, 1-2.2 2-1.2, 2-2.3 |
| Exercise imagination and creativity | Performing Art/Theatre: PK5.1 K2.0 1-2.0 2-2.0 3-2.0 |
| Practice carrying out ideas with the cooperation of others (Teamwork) | Performing Art/Theatre: K2.2, K5.2 1-5.2 2-2.1, 2-5.1, 2-5.2 3-5.1, 3-5.2 |
