Good Manners & Courtesy School ~ Good Manners Classroom

Serving Others #6 ~ Learn about and practice good manners and courtesy.

Just in time for back to school season, this activity is perfect for teaching the children some basics in manners, even though they learned it in school.

They do have a subject about all these called ‘Pendidikan Moral’ previously in Government school.

But now they also have a subject ‘Chapel’ in the Mecaje Academy Home-school.

The content of the subject is a mixture of Bible and Value Studies which are something similar to the ‘Pendidikan Moral’.

There are 4 ‘Classrooms’ in this Good Manners & Courtesy School:

1. Good Manners
2. Personal Hygiene
3. Telephone Manners
4. Table Manners

We kicked off with the most basic ~ Good Manners Classroom, wherever we go:

• In the Home
• At Mealtimes
• Having Guests in Home
• Being a Guest
• General Manners Out and About

Sometimes, kids being kids need to remind again and again, especially during interaction with the family members.

They would forgot and misbehaviour would happen and might hurting each other unintentionally.

As all of us are too familiar with each others, we just forgot about that.

We were playing role-play for some situations at home. Both Issac and Annabelle were merely succeed because they were laughing and playing @.@

We then reversed the roles and re-did on some situations, things were much better the second time around.

As for the manners at Mealtimes, we were discussing what are the Dos and Don’ts during having meals.

Put away hand phone or tablet during the meals time or conversation, close our mouths when eating and chewing and no talking during having food in the mouth, etc.

We touched a little bit on the silverware code  start with cutlery on the outside and work our way in. We would studied that more at the Table Manners session.

Other than that, how and what we should behave Having Guests in Home.

A polite smile, shake hands, introduce the guests to the people in our home, offer drinks and serve the guests, and so on.

What is the proper manner of Being a Guest at people house.

Offer to help out and assist when being a guest in someone’s house, clean up and tidy after ourselves, and the most important is to show our appreciation and ‘thank you’ to the host for their kindness to assist us.

Last and not least, how we behave ourselves during we Out and About in the public areas. Most of it, I would consider some common sense that what to do and what not to do.

                         

The kids were having fun and laughing during our sharing of ideas what suppose to do and what not suppose to do.