Do your kids have snack time in school?  

Here they have snack time too. My kids are still in kindergarden (we have three years of kindergarden before elementary school starts) and in those years they normally stop 10 minutes before break to eat their snacks. With the youngest all goes well, but the oldest (who is in his last year of kindergarden) usually comes home with his snacks intact. Because of them starting elementary school next year, the teacher lets them be more independent, which results in him not eating it because he wants to go play. Kids!!

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Yep my daughter has snack time too. And on several occasions she has come back home with it.
But lately she has been getting sick from not eating or something so now her para pro makes sure she has her lunch. I would speak to the principal about it. It doesn't seem right to me.

Yes, we have snack times here too but they are never skipped. As my daughter has gotten older snack time is now at playtime. The older kids just take their packed snack out into the playground and eat it out there.

If I were in your situation I would approach the teacher again. I think children learn better when they are replenished during a break and it also seems a little inconsistent especially as we are constantly trying to get our kids into a routine. maybe you and some of the other parents could get together and voice your worry about this situation.

my daughter has a nutrition break before lunch and they are supposed to eat part of their lunch at that time (then they have a class then another nutrition break - its not called lunch anymore.) the school also gives out snacks some times as some kids do not eat breakfast.

My daughter's school sort of has a snack time.

Until this year, they were given a juice or a milk, at the parents expense in the mid afternoon.

This year, they decided that's too unhealthy, and instead, on Fridays are given slices of fruits and vegetables, but the school pays for it. They cited something about the fruit juice and extra milk being unhealthy. *eyeroll* I have a good idea of the hidden agenda in doing this, but I would get accused of things that aren't true if I brought it up in conversation.

I think the working snack is a lousy and cruel idea for a child.

I was waiting for you to say the teacher didn't approve of the nutritional quality of the snack, but you don't sound like the kind of Mom who'd pack a bad snack. LOL But a working snack? NO!! That's just wrong.

Two thoughts on snacks.

When I was in Nursery School they provided a snack, and it was very healthy. My mother also ran a nursery school for 15 years out of our finished basement, and they were healthy too (peanut butter crackers, cereal, popcorn as a treat, vegetables and fruit, cheese, etc).

When I was in Kindergarten, Mom packed me a snack, and we had a "snack time" which meant STOP AND EAT!!! Food is meant to be eaten appropriately, not while working. It is when we work that we do not think about what we are eeating. People who work at their desks are the kinds of people who will overeat, because they are unable to stop and watch what they are doing.

Mom packed snacks for me similar to the ones that she made for the nursery school. They were good and healthy.

By the time I was up in age to grade two or three, "snack time" meant "morning recess" and when we all went outside to play, we'd eat our snacks. Again with the healthy snacks, and we had time AWAY FROM OUR DESKS to eat them!!!

My daughter is in the 1st grade and the class eat Breakfast together! The classes start at 8am. Break at 9:30 - some 15 mins to go to the rest room and run a little outside. They come back to class for their breakfast for some 20 mins.

If my daugter were under that teacher, i would probably report her to the head of the school. He should know!

i have two children that are at a primary school and they are 8 and 4 years old and their teacher lets them have snack at school and they stop to have their snack to have you gone to the head teacher bout this cause i think its very cruel that they dont let them stop to eat it

not sure what time they haqve snack time at grand daughters school but the parents send something and they take turns doing this.
CHeyenne never brings anything home so I am guessing the do get to et it,
and daughter goes one daqy a month to stay all day well all moring while the glass is going so she sees what is going on.
I would tell her that they need that break awqay from the work helps them do work better I would think even with it being only 10 min!

snack time means we commonly understand it evening time or just the time after returning to home. my son knows that after returning from school his mom will give him some testy food whatever he likes.