God made mothers because He could not be everywhere..............and teachers elected monitors because they could not be there in the classroom every time.Of course it was also to develop leadership qualities in children and assist in carrying out the classroom chores efficiently.
As is the norm ,each teacher elects the monitors for the class at the beginning of the year.Mind you,there are proper elections held wherein each child who is interested to stand as a contestant for the post can do so provided he/she has not been a monitor in the last two academic years.We follow this rule so that the same students do not get the chance to be monitors.The elected monitors' chest swells with immense pride and they take their designation and duties oh,so seriously!
I appointed two lunch monitors-a girl and a boy.They had to check that each student carried their napkin to school,washed their hands before and after eating and most importantly to see that they do not carry junk food or leave their food uneaten.There was a classroom discussion where the students themselves came up with two groups of food-healthy and unhealthy.They accepted that they would bring healthy food for their short and long breaks.They were allowed to bring junk food once a month if they wished and they readily agreed.This system made the parents very happy as the kids themselves reminded their moms that they had to carry only healthy food in their lunch-boxes.
So each day as soon as they had eaten their lunch the children took their tiffin boxes to their appointed lunch monitors who saw to it that everything in it was eaten.There were many occasions when the children did not feel like eating what was given to them.They had countless excuses for not eating.The monitors stood firm and did not heed to their excuses.At times I intervened and allowed some children to leave their food uneaten due to stomach ache or when I felt that their moms had given them way too much to eat.
But then there were the fussy eaters who made excuses and they were not spared.One such child came to the lunch monitor and said that the vegetable that his mom had prepared was too spicy for him so he could not eat it.The monitor was not one to give up easily.He looked at his food,picked up a morsel of his 'spicy' vegetable and ate it.He gave his verdict that the vegetable was not at all spicy so he had to eat it.The fussy eater went back to eat the rest of his food.Now no one complains about the vegetable being spicy unless it really is as they know that the monitors are going to eat and judge for themselves.
It was funny to see the monitor eat the vegetable to actually check whether it was spicy.Wonder what else these monitors will do as part of their duty!!!!
As a class-teacher I have to have lunch in my classroom with my students so I enjoy all these little incidents that happen during the lunch break.
As is the norm ,each teacher elects the monitors for the class at the beginning of the year.Mind you,there are proper elections held wherein each child who is interested to stand as a contestant for the post can do so provided he/she has not been a monitor in the last two academic years.We follow this rule so that the same students do not get the chance to be monitors.The elected monitors' chest swells with immense pride and they take their designation and duties oh,so seriously!
I appointed two lunch monitors-a girl and a boy.They had to check that each student carried their napkin to school,washed their hands before and after eating and most importantly to see that they do not carry junk food or leave their food uneaten.There was a classroom discussion where the students themselves came up with two groups of food-healthy and unhealthy.They accepted that they would bring healthy food for their short and long breaks.They were allowed to bring junk food once a month if they wished and they readily agreed.This system made the parents very happy as the kids themselves reminded their moms that they had to carry only healthy food in their lunch-boxes.
So each day as soon as they had eaten their lunch the children took their tiffin boxes to their appointed lunch monitors who saw to it that everything in it was eaten.There were many occasions when the children did not feel like eating what was given to them.They had countless excuses for not eating.The monitors stood firm and did not heed to their excuses.At times I intervened and allowed some children to leave their food uneaten due to stomach ache or when I felt that their moms had given them way too much to eat.
But then there were the fussy eaters who made excuses and they were not spared.One such child came to the lunch monitor and said that the vegetable that his mom had prepared was too spicy for him so he could not eat it.The monitor was not one to give up easily.He looked at his food,picked up a morsel of his 'spicy' vegetable and ate it.He gave his verdict that the vegetable was not at all spicy so he had to eat it.The fussy eater went back to eat the rest of his food.Now no one complains about the vegetable being spicy unless it really is as they know that the monitors are going to eat and judge for themselves.
It was funny to see the monitor eat the vegetable to actually check whether it was spicy.Wonder what else these monitors will do as part of their duty!!!!
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