What is the lunch routine?
Children set up for lunch to be eaten in their own classrooms. In keeping with the Montessori philosophy to foster children’s awareness and responsibility as much as possible, daily tasks such as ensuring that tablecloths, napkins, etc. are laundered and folded and put away are undertaken with the help of the assistant in the classroom. If children forget or choose not to do these tasks, then the natural consequences of eating that day without tablecloth or napkin is clearly evident and is additional information for their developing, reasoning minds. Eating together also provides ongoing lessons in grace and courtesy where children learn by example the social graces and come to understand and accept that we all have responsibilities to other people.
