At Grace's school, the children learn to be responsible for themselves and to server themselves and others. Activities are designed to foster a sense of sequence and order. For example, during snack time, each child selects a snack from the snack table, puts it in a bowl and carries it to a table. Then she goes back to the snack table, pours her own drink from a small pitcher into a cup and then carries to her table. Then she may sit down and eat her snack. Once she's finished, she carries her leftovers and scrapes them into the trash can and then places her bowl and cup in the sink. Eventually, she will learn to wash her own dishes and put them away.
After just two days in school, Grace has already grasped this concept. She was watching a cartoon downstairs while I was upstairs vacuuming the bedroom. I came down a few minutes later and saw her eating a yogurt. She had walked into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator door, selected a yogurt, and closed the refrigerator door. Next, she walked to the cutlery drawer, opened it, got out a spoon, and closed that drawer. Then she went back to the family room to finish watching her cartoon, opened her yogurt, and ate it!
I just watched her eat it.
I didn't say anything to distract her. 
Because I wanted to see what she would do next. I was very surprised to see her eat the entire yogurt without making a mess. 
When she was finished, she calmly took the yogurt bowl and spoon to the kitchen and dropped them into the sink. Amazing.
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