Exam Preview for 31647: Mealtime Matters September 17, 2019

Mealtime Matters

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1. One way to create a positive mealtime environment is: Use adult size plates and utensils Serve meals “family style” allowing children to serve themselves Have the TV playing in the background Ensure the children are eating and not talking at the table
2. If a child has his hands in his food the teacher/staff member should: Demand that he use a fork to eat his food. Ask him what he thinks of the food he is touching—is it soft, cold, hard? Say, “That’s going to make you sticky. Your mom will not be happy. Use your spoon.” Take his plate away.
3. During lunchtime after students have been served, teachers should: Take the opportunity to get a few things done while you supervise. Cots need to be put down for nap! Slip over to the teacher cabinet to slam some soda before the wild and crazy transition to nap time. Sit at the table with the children and eat a healthy meal with them. Just sit nearby and watch the kids. You’ll eat on your break.
4. Which of the following is a positive, productive way to encourage "trying" fruits and vegetables? Require each child at the table to taste 3 bites. Allow children to explore fruits and vegetables during small group learning by touching, smelling, counting, looking at, and/or cutting with a plastic knife. Send the food home with the child and ask the parents to give it to the child. Serve the children the same food every day until they eat it.
5. If some children are still eating at the scheduled end of meal time, but it's time for circle time, teachers should: Be on the carpet ready to go. You stick to the schedule perfectly. Tell children still eating that they should have arrived earlier and then clear the tables. Ask children still eating to throw their trash away and join the class. You need to keep the schedule. Allow some “buffer time” for children to finish eating at their own pace. Children who are already finished pick a puzzle or book for the carpet.
6. One goal for mealtimes is for it to be: Unhurried Rushed Silent Loud
7. The teacher/staff member’s mealtime role is to: Serve only foods the children like Bribe a child to eat what is on the plate Demand two bites of each food served Model healthy eating habits
8. During mealtimes the adult controls: How much the child eats Whether the child eats What the child likes to eat What and when the child is fed
9. Which of the following is a supportive statement to use at mealtime? Clean your plate! Hurry up and eat. Would you like to taste the carrots with me? Eat your carrots.
10. Which of the following is a positive statement that can teach children about their body’s hunger cues? You haven’t eaten much. Do you feel hungry? If you try two bites, you can leave the table and go play. If you clean your plate, you can have dessert. You devoured your food. You must have been starving.