Lessons from the Lunchlady: is a noodle a vegetable?
We had a short week last week mostly because Pennsylvania weather is completely unpredictable.
Who has a snow day at the end of March?
With no school on Monday and holiday break to begin on Friday, the three days in the middle went pretty fast.
Here's what I learned.
Sometimes you can make a "willy bad choice". After two kindergarteners were sent to the office for making less than appropriate choices one said to the other "If we ever get out of here, I promise I will never do that again."
The mile high club. We overheard one 3rd grader asking another 3rd grader if he was a member of the mile high club in some video game they were both playing. Here's hoping that his mile high club is different than this version.
Is a noodle a vegetable? As most of you know, a qualifying lunch must include a vegetable or a fruit. This week I was asking the students, who were passing on the broccoli but taking the Alfredo noodles, if noodles were a vegetable. It saddens me that many of them thought they were.
What did you learn this week?
About Me
- kisatrtle
- I'm a 41 year old (gasp) freelance writer, school cafeteria manager, wife and mother. I have three children and one anxious and overweight beagle. I use my blog to make others laugh, to share some cool crafts, to document my lunchlady adventures and to lament about the challenges faced by us all on the journey called life. Thanks for visiting. Please leave some crack...um...I meant some comments.
2 random thoughts:
"If we ever get out of here..." I LOVE THAT!
And noodles ARE a vegetable. Haven't you ever heard of spaghetti squash?
It is sad how many veggies kids don't know about and what they think is a veggie. It isn't just little ones either. One of my daughters friends that is now 21 is here now and then for dinner. 9 times out of 10 she either doesn't like the veggies we are serving or has never even heard of them. And I suspect some of the ones she 'doesn't like' she has never tried.