{"id":133,"date":"2026-08-04T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/peuselhappies-roomys-tyd-na-n-besige-oggend\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:26:25","slug":"peuselhappies-roomys-tyd-na-n-besige-oggend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/peuselhappies-roomys-tyd-na-n-besige-oggend\/","title":{"rendered":"Snack time: ice cream after a busy morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nap time the house is quiet, and then it slowly starts stirring again. Snack time is the soft landing between rest and the last round of outdoor play, and sometimes, if the day has earned it, there is ice cream.<\/p>\n<h2>A child who has eaten is a child who can concentrate<\/h2>\n<p>It sounds obvious, but it is the easiest way to get an afternoon right. In young children, hunger rarely looks like hunger. It looks like tears, shoving, or a child who does not want to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Well-being is the core the other five learning areas rest on. A child who feels fed, rested and safe is the child who can play, share and learn.<\/p>\n<h2>It is a lesson too<\/h2>\n<p>More than eating happens around the table. Children pour for themselves, pass things along, wait for each other and clear their own bowls. They practise the words for what they do want and what they do not want.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pouring for themselves builds fine motor control and confidence.<\/li>\n<li>Passing and waiting builds turn-taking and patience.<\/li>\n<li>Chatting around the table builds vocabulary without any effort at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How we think about food<\/h2>\n<p>Breakfast is warm and lunch is made fresh every day, not tipped out of a packet. Snacks follow after nap time. We are glad to arrange special dietary needs with you in advance.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, sometimes it is ice cream. Not every day, but often enough that it stays a small celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-also\">See also: <a href=\"\/en\/program\/\">Our Programme<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/fasiliteite\/\">Facilities<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/fooie\/\">Fees &amp; Enrolment<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the little breaks in our day are planned just as carefully as the learning.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktiwiteite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenhillboetiek.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}