The main purpose of pre-meal activities is to help children adjust their emotions and let them eat in a good and happy mood.
The main method is to carry out pre-meal broadcasting activities, and large-class children have certain independence. In order to train children's expressive ability, students on duty collect the nutritional knowledge of the day's recipes with their parents at home one day in advance every day, and act as a small information broadcaster before each meal to broadcast the recipes and their nutritional value to all their companions.
Children in middle and small classes are not autonomous enough to understand the nutritional value of diet. The teacher knows the recipes of the day in advance, uses the internet to search for pictures and texts of the nutritional value of dishes, and shows them to the children before meals. Colorful pictures and teachers' vivid descriptions not only let children know the benefits of each dish to their physical growth, but also create a psychological atmosphere in which children want to eat, like to eat and love to eat. When the nurses brought the food to class, they used the smell of the food to arouse the children's appetite again.
Detailed organization of meals.
1. Grasp the children's meal time and master the correct meal method.
Experts pointed out that too little or too much meal time will affect children's reasonable intake of nutrition. Due to insufficient iron intake, the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia will increase. Children's health experts advocate that children should cultivate good eating hygiene habits from an early age, and it is appropriate to spend 30 to 40 minutes per meal.
Let the children gradually and consciously adjust the meal time. Children in small classes eat with spoons, while children in large classes eat with chopsticks. Small classes mainly teach children the methods and requirements of eating in all aspects, such as sitting up straight in a chair, holding a spoon in one hand and a bowl in the other, and catching the falling rice with a bowl when feeding the rice to the mouth. In the middle class and the big class, you learn how to eat with chopsticks correctly.
2. Standardize children's dining routes to ensure safe dining.
In the process of eating, there is always a headache for teachers, which is the unsafe factor. Although the children are also very orderly, it is inevitable that they will spill or collide because of serving. Teachers also emphasize safety every day, but it is still unsatisfactory. How to solve this problem?
The trick is that if all children can move around a fixed line (for example, counterclockwise from back to front), then there will be no cross phenomenon and artificial collision can be avoided. This is not a restriction on children, but an excellent link to cultivate a sense of rules.
3. Pay attention to children's mental health in diet.
When eating in kindergarten, I often hear such kind reminders: "Eat well, don't talk" and "Don't spill the rice on the table" ... The originally pleasant meal suddenly became serious.
Because in people's traditional ideas, it is generally believed that eating without talking is a virtue and beneficial to health. Therefore, children must abide by this traditional virtue and always remind themselves to eat as required. Physiologically speaking, when people are depressed, their digestive glands are suppressed and they have no appetite.
The teacher's urging for the children who eat slowly and reminding the rules from time to time make the children nervous, affect their appetite, cause their emotional disgust and tension, and cause anorexia and fear of eating. The research of University of Chicago psychologist Zikson Mohai confirms this point, and thinks that talking in diet can make people feel happy, active in thinking and full of creative associations.
Through observation, teachers will find that children in small classes don't talk much, while children in middle classes and large classes often whisper when eating.