The 8-year-olds in Elizabeth Apostolidis’s classroom at Public School 70 were talking business over their Crispix and bananas. Seen the newest Batman movie yet? Nasty weather outside, huh? What’s with that gross apple-cinnamon filling in the bagels?

It was the kind of quality conversation among friends rare in the old days, when P.S. 70’s third graders ate breakfast in the rowdy cafeteria or skipped it entirely. Now, under a pilot program that will expand to 299 schools across the city over the next two months, breakfast is served at the students’ desks.

“It makes me more relaxed while I do work in class,” said Adam Khay, who raved about the string cheese. “We can talk to our friends that might be our best friends at our own table.”

Sitting on the other side of the desk, Rhythm Thamid said, “It makes me feel energetic.”

The morning feasts, handed to students in bags as they stampede through the doors of the school in Long Island City, Queens, are meant to increase the number of children who eat what nutritionists consider the most important meal of the day.