CHCECE007 - Scenario: Creating A Positive Meal Time

[EmmaJane_234]

Im a little stuck on parts b and c. anyone have any pointers?

1. It has been discovered that a group of 4 year olds have been distracted during meal time. This issue is to be discussed at a program planning meeting, and the group educators plan to discuss why the meal time is so noisy, and what changes could be made to this routine.
a) Explain why you think this meal time is not relaxed and unhurried time of day. List five possible reasons.
1. The transition between play time and meal time didn’t go to well and the children did not calm down enough to have a calm and relaxed meal time.
2. Educators did not engage with the children during the meal times.
3. The children are not given enough time between play and Lunch to calm down.
4. The children are too active before lunch, e.g. something out of the ordinary happened right before and got all the children excited.
5. The educators were not sitting with the children during this time.

b) What changes could the educators make to their role, in order to create a different atmosphere?
c) How could children’s ideas about the mealtime be included in the decision making process about changes?

[Lorina]

b) Positive Mealtimes
c) Discuss with the children, write their ideas, implement possible ones...

Hope this helps,

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Lorina