(IL State Goals: 1A, 1B, 6B, 6C, 7A, 8A, 15D, 24)
For a more in-depth description of the skills, abilities and goals for which this exhibit was designed to enhance, please visit: Illinois State Board of Education – Early Childhood Education Standards / Goals

Description:

To Market, To Market is based on the ever-popular Farmer’s Market theme. Children can enjoy shopping for food using baskets, or the shopping cart. They can also weigh the food, count, restock, buy, and sell.  Encouraging them to cooperate with others in the market environment.

Educational Philosophy:

The market allows children to role-play shopping by making their own decisions on what to buy and how much. They build their pre-reading and pre-mathematics skills as they try out various roles such as shopkeeper, shopper, shelf-stockers, sales person, clerk, etc.

Summary:

In To Market, To Market the young child…

• Learns pre-mathematic skills by counting, sorting, weighing, etc
• Builds pre-reading and reading skills
• Gets a glimpse at what being a consumer means
• Interacts with others in a simulation of a real life activity
• Engages in the high level thinking skill of “pretend”
• Grows in self concept by playing the adult roles