New Routines... New Challenges!

The Kindergartners at the school I am at receive free breakfast if they choose. Up until today, breakfast has been brought into the rooms and the students eat at their tables. This was easy, because the students could see what was available, pick what they wanted to eat, eat at the table, clean up, and move on. What was happening though, was that they would bring a certain amount of food down and not all of it would be eaten. What was left had to then be thrown away. This also produced a lot of garbage in the classrooms from wrappers and napkins being thrown away. Today, they started a new routine for Kindergarten breakfast. The students had to choose if they were going to eat, go down to the lunchroom on their own, eat breakfast (in ten minutes) and come back on their own. What ended up happening was that there was a huge line and it took a long time for the students to get their food. By the time they sat down, they barely had any time to eat and then had to throw away most of what they grabbed anyways. I believe they are going to try something a little different tomorrow to make it run smoother.