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Try A Pizza Theme Week

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Learners explore all the things they could do with a pizza. They become aware of food groups and nutritional needs, make decorated cardboard pizzas, interact with pizza slices and fractions, create stories to go along with their cardboard pizzas and study what makes a pizza a pizza.

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food groups, food

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cardboard pizzas, food groups, math
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3rd - 8th
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Math
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