This document outlines plans for creating an environmental supermarket play space. The space aims to develop children's social skills like turn-taking, sharing, and listening through pretend play activities like working as cashiers. Materials like cash register, scales, and price labels will allow children to engage in activities like weighing produce, calculating bills, and paying for groceries. The space also focuses on promoting concepts like numbers, literacy, decision making, and community.

1. Environmental
Plan
Supermark
et

2. Sources of InspirationShelving
Clear contains

3. Sources of Inspiration

4. Sources of InspirationClock
Supermarket
Catelouge

5. Sources of Inspiration
Labels with
prices
Scale

6. Sources of InspirationOpen and
close signs
and store
hours
Display
produce by
colour

7. Relationships
⦁ This learning space develops children’s peer relationships by
fostering:
o Turn taking
o Sharing
o Listening to others
o Inclusive play – positions children to engage with others
o Generosity – community or charity donation box

8. Belonging
A sense of belonging is created by:
 Creating bank cards with the children’s picture and name
on it
 Create a visual roles and responsibilities chart or pretend
roster - children can negotiate their roles by matching their
picture and name with a responsibility such as cashier

9. Equity
Equity is promoted by:
 ensuring there is enough resources for several children
at one moment in time
 creating several roles to encourage participation and
inclusive play

10. The image of the child
Children are viewed as:
 Competent and capable learners
 Having prior knowledge and experiences
 Unique
 Creative

11. Children’s Interests
Interests
Money
Cooking and
food produce
Time
Letters and
writing

12. What will children be doing in
this space?
This space will position children to:
Use money to pay for their groceries
Buy the groceries required for their cupcakes, cakes etc.
Participate in open and close routines of the supermarket
Weigh their produce
Scan and calculate the estimated price of the grocery bill
Ask the customer for a set amount of money
Writing lists

13. Possible Learning
Opportunities
The following learning can be supported within this space:
 Exposure to the dollar sign
 Identifying coins
 Reading and creating a grocery list and everyday words
 Bigger / smaller concept
 One-on-one number correspondence
 Introduction to time
 Heavier / lighter concept
 Decision making
 Language development
 Recycling
 Being green

14. This space ‘sounds like’
Turn taking in conversations
Naming familiar grocery items
Identifying or counting numbers
Negotiating
Children sharing grocery experiences
Children expressing their likes and dislikes in regards to food

15. This space ‘looks like’
The space is colourful and vibrant
The space is dynamic and lively
Children are taking turns and sharing
Plenty of resources to cater for multiple children at one time
Neatly and aesthetically arranged
Children can bring in and add grocery items to their grocery
store

16. Aesthetics
The following strategies will be used to make the space visually
pleasing:
Use straw baskets to display the fruit and vegetables
Arrange the fruit and vegetables by colour
Incorporate real flowers near the counter
Removing unnecessary clutter
Introducing seating to add a different player to the experience