This month in the mornings the children have had the opportunity to serve themselves morning snack. As a class, we are learning about portion sizes and how much food is needed to serve all the children in our group. Some mornings are easier than others as the menus changes each day and portions of the food varies. Educator Jess W explained to the children that we need to make sure that we save enough so that everyone gets morning snack. During these moments the children are communicating with one another as they ask for the tongs to be passed to them. Using their concentration skills while pouring the milk from the milk carton into their glasses, we are all learning that sometimes the milk carton can be full compared the other times we have tried pouring milk! This has caused some of the milk to spill on to the table as the children continue to practice. Our class used great communication skills as they worked together cleaning up the mess as a team.
By allowing the children to serve themselves this foster their fine motor development as they use the tongs to grab food and place it on their plate. Using their cognitive skill in correlation to pouring their milk into their snack cups. While also using their problem-solving skills on recognizing how fast or slow the milk needs to be poured. As we communicate the rules on sharing and being equal when serving ourselves. Communicating that we need to be aware of how much food we put on our plate, as we don’t want to waste food and want to make sure we have enough for the rest of our classmates.
As we move into our summer activities we have planned our social event around them helping serve their families and friends as a class. They will allow for improving self-help skills alongside the children fostering positive relationship with food.
