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Hi, I teach 1st grade, and I'm wondering how other teachers run their snack time? We have snack right after morning recess. I pass it out and let the students chit chat a bit. It usually lasts about 7 minutes. I've heard of a communal snack where kids might go to a "bowl" sitting at a table and take snack when they feel hungry throughout the morning or certain time frame. I think the purpose of that philosophy is to teach children to monitor their own hunger while also building their level of independence. I can't quite picture that working for me. Has anyone else tried that or even heard of it? Jenna
Seth Johnson We do a "grab and go" breakfast type in between first and second hours. Students just take whatever few snacks they get and have 8 minutes to eat them. We keep it in the cafeteria though to reduce garbage on the ground. On 9/22/14, Jenna wrote: > Hi, > I teach 1st grade, and I'm wondering how other teachers > run their snack time? We have ...See More
Sep 26, 2014
lee.h That type of snack would make me nervous and I think it would be distracting. Some students would be munching the entire time and others would not take any so they would still be hungry. I did snack either morning or afternoon. It depended on what our later part of the day was. If we had a late lunch we did morning (these were different years) if w...See More
Sep 29, 2014


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