# Lemonade or should I say # cucumbers?

Two girls had a play date on the PD Day Friday and they had a lemonade stand together.  They had so much fun they asked if we could have a lemonade stand at school.  So...they got to work organizing and making a list of what they would need.  They decided they needed cups, signs, a price tag, decorations and of course...lemonade!

Notice the signs...the lemonade is five cents for a cup.  

"Hey...we should put this on Facebook.  I'll make the Facebook thing...it's blue right with a white f?"

"What about hash tag...hash tag lemonade..."

"Can you send this to my mom on your phone?"

The children cut coloured paper to make different flavours of lemonade...but they wanted to sell something real.  Real lemonade.  Real lemonade was impossible that day because we didn't have the ingredients.  One of the girls was determined to find something real to sell.  She noticed a bag of cucumbers in the kitchen that were delivered for healthy snack.  She grabbed them and begged to 'sell' them at the lemonade stand.  

"Do you take credit cards?"

The cucumbers were a hit!

"We made lots of money! Maybe we should put hash tag cucumber!"

The next day I brought in real lemonade...

They decided that if you wanted lemonade you should put your name on your cup so nobody would drink from the wrong cup.

The kids counted their coins.

The lemonade was served...

The line was endless...

"Make sure you pay for this please."

"This is the money cup and then we put it in the cash register."

"One cup please."

"You can pay right here."

The class LOVED the lemonade stand!  The learning that takes place during dramatic play always surprises me.  You can never predict what the focus will be.  Last time we had a store they were focused on the coins (money).  They wanted to know what each coin was called and how much each coin was worth.  Another time, it was all about the signs, and everyone involved made one.  They talked about the spelling, the decorating, the planning.  This time it was all about the problem solving.  Everyone wanted to help make the lemonade, everyone wanted a turn on the cash register, and everyone wanted a turn pouring the lemonade.  Every time I turned around there was a problem to be solved.  And every time there was a problem, there was a group of students ready to solve it.  They worked through every problem.  Sometimes they needed the help of a teacher, and sometimes they figured it out on their own.