CHCECE005 - Providing Positive Mealtime In The Nursery

[Bentley75]

Hi, I am currently studying Cert III in Child care.

I currently work in a preschool with ages 3-5.

The question I am having trouble with is:

SECTION 3: Activity 3:

Objective: To provide you with an opportunity to promote positive mealtime environments that are adapted to meet the individual child’s routines and needs and ensure babies are fed individually

Question 1

Describe, in detail, how you would set up meals for the day in a room with some babies that are bottle fed and some that are eating solids to ensure you are adapting to meet the individual child’s needs and feeding babies individually.

• Know ahead of time which babies can be fed family style
• Know ahead of time which babies need to be bottle fed
• Organise the day keeping in mind nap times, and feeding times, allowing for flexibility so babies can be fed on demand
• Communicate with the other educator in the room regarding the plans and any changes.

I'm really not sure but I'm thinking:

1. Communicate with the kitchen with numbers of children that will require meals
2. Set up a feeding schedule for the day based on the bottle fed babies based and when they were last fed.- but this is basically the question
3. Talk to the other staff in the room in relation to the game plan for the day
4. Look at the children in the room, bottle fed, breast fed with or without bottle, family style fed. As you will know when morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will arrive from kitchen. Are the bottle fed babies demand or schedule.

As you can see I'm just going round and round in circles.

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Lorina]

Maybe you could separate the babies into 2 groups. The ones that need to be bottle fed can sit in rocking chairs or on the mat with one educator and the ones that need to be fed solids can sit at the table in their high chairs with another educator. Splitting the group up makes it easier to focus on the individual needs on each children.

Hope this helps,

,
Lorina

[Bentley75]

Hi Lorina,

Thanks. I was really stuck on this one.

Nicole