Every day I sit with my third-grade students at lunch. I eat earlier, so I can sit back, relax, and either listen or talk to the children. My class has decided the boys like eating with the boys and the girls like to keep themselves. I have suggested we mix up the tables and they sweetly insist things are just fine the way they are. I have been fascinated by what some boys eat - pickles with sun butter and jam sandwiches, pizza dipped in ranch dressing, and the coveted potato chips. I have seen boys who devour plates of spaghetti nibble a potato chip like a squirrel. Four nibbles per chip. As if they are savoring each greasy, crunchy bite. Important enough to ignore the call for recess time.
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I am learning new things about our third graders! So happy to see you slicing this year!
If it is "important enough to ignore the call for recess time" then it MUST be important. I, too, love the way you zoom in from an overview of the lunch room, to the boys' table, to the food in front of them, and then to the chips and the way they savor each bite!
I *could* say how weird it is that you have kids with such particular eating habits. It's ALSO possible that I have a few of my own =))
I had years of lunch duty in a multi-cultural school and have seen many interesting lunches, but never a pickles with butter and jam sandwich. I hope the child keeps that sense of the strange and unconventional.
I love how you zoomed into the tiny details in this post!