One of my new cherubs stomped up to me on the first day of school and said, "I have a lunch from home. What do I do with it?"
"Oh, good, good! If you are having cold lunch put it on this shelf (I am gesturing to the far right toward a lone shelf while twelve other five year olds are waving notes in my face, at least a half dozen parents are taking photos of their child's new found freedom of "school" and a few students are crying. This is nothing. I can handle this. I am a multi-tasker.
For five days this routine continued. The "I'm having a cold lunch from home." student asked me each day, "What do I do with my lunch from home?" I gestured and instructed him, and the twenty-two classmates, that they need to "order lunch" by placing their name card in one of two baskets. If you are having a lunch from school put your name card in the "HOT LUNCH" box. If you are having a lunch from home, put your name card in the "COLD LUNCH" box. Each day this same student asked me where to put his lunch and his name card.
Finally on the sixth day of Kindergarten he said to me, "We need a MEDIUM LUNCH box for our name cards."
Me: "Huh? What"
Him: We need a medium lunch box for kids who bring a lunch from home. We don't cook it here so it isn't hot. It isn't in the refrigerator so it isn't cold. It's medium."
Me: (Surely displaying a look of dumfoundedness) said, "Oh" (Always a very impressive statement when confused and perplexed. It really lets your audience know that you are a complete bone head.
We now have a "MEDIUM LUNCH" for those who bring lunch from home and are not comfortable, nor satisfied, saying that their lunch is "cold".
Whatever it takes to keep the ship sailing and the Kindergartner kids standing while keeping back the tears is A-OK by me! So, a MEDIUM LUNCH box it is!
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