Time for Time for Lunch!Lunch!

Created by Beth Vorhaus, (2014) Nashville, Tennessee: Team Tennessee, Tennessee Voices for Children

A Scripted Story about Going to the Cafeteria

At lunchtime, my class eats in the At lunchtime, my class eats in the

cafeteria.cafeteria.

Some of my friends bring their Some of my friends bring their

lunch from home and some of us lunch from home and some of us

get our lunch in the cafeteria.get our lunch in the cafeteria.

When we get to the cafeteria, we When we get to the cafeteria, we

have to follow the rules just like have to follow the rules just like

we do in our classroom.we do in our classroom.

Cafeteria Rules:•Eat your own food

•Use good table manners•Sit in your seat & talk quietly

•Clean-up after yourself

If we bring our lunch from home, we go sit at our table and wait for our friends to get their lunch.

If we are getting our lunch from the cafeteria, we have to wait in line.

TheThe cafeteria workers will tell us cafeteria workers will tell us

what is for lunch and then she can what is for lunch and then she can

serve us or we can serve ourselves.serve us or we can serve ourselves.

Today’s Menu: or

or

or

We remember to say please and We remember to say please and

thank you to the cafeteria workers thank you to the cafeteria workers

for making our food or serving us. for making our food or serving us.

Thank you!

Please may I have some?

Once we have our food we can Once we have our food we can

walk carefully to the table to eat walk carefully to the table to eat

with our friends.with our friends.

Cafeteria Rules:•Eat your food

•Show good table manners•Stay in your seat•Talk quietly

•Clean-up after yourself

This is when it important to remember the rules….

When everyone has finished their When everyone has finished their

lunch, we check around our space lunch, we check around our space

to make sure we have cleaned up to make sure we have cleaned up

our area.our area.

Then we line-up to walk back to our classroom.