Our Dramatic Play area has turned into a Pizza Hut restaurant. The children had their first shift being a customer or a server today. Before our GRAND opening the children had an employee training session and customer etiquette lesson as well. The children really took this seriously, using a lot of restaurant conversation as they enjoyed playing and learning in this new space. The children were very busy! Today I observed the children listening & writing as they took orders. The customers also write out checks to pay for their lunches. (As I was closing up shop this evening, I was looking at the great job they did writing out the checks. I noticed someone "forged" my name on one of the checks ~ that will be a lesson for another day. : ) -it was actually pretty cute!