The main purpose of pre-meal activities is to help children adjust their emotions and let them eat in a good and pleasant mood.
The main method is to carry out pre-meal broadcast activities, and the large class children have a certain degree of independence. In order to exercise the children's expression ability, the students on duty collect the nutrition knowledge of the recipes of the day at home with their parents 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 the 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 own physical growth, but also create a psychological atmosphere in which children want to eat, enjoy eating and love eating. When the nurses bring the meals to class, they use the fragrance of the meals to arouse the children's appetite again.
The detailed organization of dining.
1. Grasp the eating time of children and master the correct eating methods.
Experts pointed out that too little or too much meal time will affect children's reasonable intake of nutrients. Due to insufficient iron intake, the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia will increase. Child care experts advocate that it is appropriate for children to cultivate good eating hygiene habits from an early age and spend 30 to 40 minutes at each meal.
Let children gradually and consciously adjust the meal time. Children in small classes eat with spoons, while children in large classes eat with chopsticks. In small classes, we mainly teach children the methods and requirements of all aspects of eating, such as sitting upright in a chair first, holding a spoon in one hand and a bowl in the other, and catching the falling rice grains with a bowl when feeding the rice to the mouth. In the middle and large classes, you learn how to eat correctly with chopsticks.
2. Standardize the route of children's meals to ensure the safety during meals.
In the process of eating, there is always a headache for teachers, that is, unsafe factors. Although children are also very orderly and orderly, it is inevitable that they will spill or collide because of serving meals. 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 the awareness of rules.
3. Pay attention to children's mental health in eating.
When eating in kindergarten, I often hear such kind reminders: "Eat well, don't talk" and "Don't spill rice on the table" ... The originally pleasant eating 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. From the physiological characteristics, when people are depressed, the digestive glands are inhibited and there is no appetite.
The teacher's urging of children who eat slowly, as well as reminding of the rules from time to time, make children's nerves in a state of tension, affect their appetite, cause children's 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 will 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 and large classes often talk quietly during meals.