#3 School Lunch
Can anyone imagine that school lunch can be something more than a mere lunch? The answer is yes. Come and see how.
Most of the schools in different countries struggle a lot to design a nutritious, affordable and tasty lunch. But Japan has developed a food curriculum that is interesting as well as educative.
Yui reads in grade 5 in an elementary school in Saitama. Here we are going to visit her class .Now I am sure that you must be waiting to know more about her school lunch pattern that is based on simple disciplinary rules. Keep reading to know more.
#2 School Kitchen
All the food that is served to the kids is cooked in the school kitchen. Vegetables that are used are grown in the school farm by the students itself. Fish, bread, soup, potatoes and milk are the main constituents of the meal. All the food is weighed and kept in separate carts for every grade. From the cart room it is picked up by the kids with the help of their class teacher.
This was the preparation part of the lunch, now we move on to the serving part. How the food is served? What are the cleanliness measures taken in to All the food that is served to the kids is prepared in the consideration? To discover all this and more move on to the next page. Dont miss it.
#1 Classroom
There is no separate room for having lunch. The kids have it in their classrooms. As the class gets over all the kids wash their hands, clean their table and wear a white coat and cap. They take out their luncheon mat, chopsticks, brush and mug. All this is checked by their teacher. The food is served by the kids itself. And last but not the least they brush their teeth along with their class teacher.
After the lunch the children spent 20 minutes in cleaning the classroom and school premises. The reason behind this activity is that it develops the habit of keeping the surroundings clean. This system practiced in Japan has really paid off as the Japanese children are relatively healthy and the child obesity rate in japan is the lowest in the world. Watch the following video of an elementary school and see how he children get ready for the lunch. You will be highly impressed by this video, we can guarantee this.
