| 4:45 |
Arrival: Staff and parents share information, help the child settle and rest. |
| 7:00 |
Breakfast Time: Children's hands are washed before and after meals. |
| 7:30 |
More Staff Arrivals: Staff will divide children into their appropriate rooms at 7:30 and continue to greet everyone. Children often play inside and outside, then clean up toys, and get on the bus. |
| 9:00 |
Clean Up: Clean up room, diaper changes, hand washing, prepare snack (children eat snack with one teacher sitting at each table). |
| 9:30 |
Activity/Center Time: Fine motor; pretend play; cognitive and language skills are enhanced; art experiences with crayons, markers, finger painting, brushes, sponges, wheels, Q-tips, objects, etc., including play dough and shaving cream. |
| 10:00 |
Prepare for Outside: Clean up, drinks of water, prepare to go outside, or inside gross motor activities. |
| 10:15 |
Outdoor Play Time (weather permitting). |
| 10:45 |
Inside: Drinks, music time (tapes with a variety of kid songs, types of music, nursery rhymes, favorite songs, simple music instruments, and scarves and ribbons to dance with; creative movement encouraged). |
| 11:00 |
Lunch Time: Handwashing, diaper-changing. Children choose seats and plates are served with complete helping of lunch. Children are helped with eating if needed and are encouraged to try everything. They may have seconds on everything. |
| 12:00-2:00 |
Nap Time |
| 2:00 |
Change diapers and potty as children wake up; quiet activities (books, puzzles, manipulatives) until all the children wake up. |
| 3:00 |
Snack: Children wash their hands and sit at the table along with teacher. |
| 3:15-6:00 |
Free Play: Individual activities; teachers and assistants converse with parents as children are picked up. |
