Personal Narrative: My Day At The Goddard School

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During my day at the Goddard school, I had an opportunity to observe the schools loose nutritional practices. The morning starts off with parents bringing the children in and having breakfast from home. The teacher mentions that the parents choose what they’d like their children to eat for breakfast and they have no specific restrictions. I was able to see this first hand as one of the children had chicken nuggets for breakfast. One main practice that the school did stress and implement was having a designated peanut free table. If I child is allergic to peanuts they were to sit at that table for safety reasons. For snack time the children were provided raisins and dry cheerios. The teachers rational behind the snacks is that they have a low sugar content and incorporates grains. There aren't …show more content…

During my observation throughout the day, I was able to learn many different ways to interact with children that I will take with me in my practice as a nurse because of you. You have a way of being able to be caring and loving but, professional at the same time. When you walked into the class room and all the kids were excited to see you and wanted to leave their breakfast you simply redirected their attention by explaining the importance of finishing breakfast. It was something small but I would have just let the kids get up not but using a remembered like “breakfast comes first always” helped ease what could have been a chaotic situation. Another, observation I had made was the way you always gave the toddlers a choice. In class, we learned that giving toddlers a choice was very important but seeing you put it into practice really brought it home. From asking them what sink they would like to use to wash their hands to what book they would like to read before their nap I was constantly seeing you give them a choice. Thank you so much for letting me observe your

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