 An important part of a day in a preschool classroom is snack time. Eating gives those kids more energy and gets those grumpy behaviors away. So it's important to remember when you're starting out snack how you treat one another when you're sitting together at a table. So we sit down kindly, we do not use our feet to touch another friend, we put our hands on our laps, and as the teacher is getting ready to share our snack, I expect manners. So what I do is I model these manners by saying, would you like a snack today? And you can be specific and you say would you like milk today or would you like bread today? But usually I just say snack and I expect my students to reciprocate those manners by saying yes please and using my name so that they are practicing please and a formal use of a name. So I'll try again I say would you like a snack today and then I wait and then my student will say yes please and then probably Mrs. Gallagher and so then I will happily give them snack but if they say yeah or yes or no I wait they don't receive anything and I say to them could you try that with different words and then they try again and maybe it takes two or three rounds but they will eventually realize they need to say yes please or no thank you Mrs. Gallagher. David would you like a snack today? Yep. Can you use your manners? David would you like a snack today? Yes Mrs. Gallagher. There we go yes please Mrs. Gallagher would you like a snack today? Yes please Mrs. Gallagher. Oh excellent manners would you like a snack today? Yes please Mrs. Gallagher. Oh look at those manners.