Tell me something good 2

Keep it simple.  Practice responsibility.

One part of my class opening routine, is to select their lunch choice for the day.  Each lunch choice has a specific color clip.  The red choice is the hot lunch choice that rotates on a four week cycle.  Preprinted cards have a velcro sticker to attach quickly to a wide craft stick on the basket.  The cards are organized in the rotating lunch order so we don't have to sort through the picture cards to find the daily lunch choice.  (makes it easier for us)
Students take the color clip out of the basket and clip it next to their name label on the front of their mailbox.  

Taking lunch count is quick and easy.  Just count how many of each color clip.  
At lunch time, students remove their lunch choice clip from their mailbox and put it on the front of their shirt.  
As they move through the lunch line, the cafeteria staff know exactly what they preordered.  
Too many times, students forget what they ordered or they attempt to change their order.  This eliminates the problem.

It's a good thing to tell about.

Hand-in-hand we grow!

Janet