Daycare Schedule March 2011

6:30 - 8:00 - Quiet time with books and music. Kids who stayed overnight are often still asleep and sometimes very early arrivals have fallen asleep again.

8:00 - Overnighters get up and get dressed, put away mats

8:30 - Breakfast

9:00 - Circle Time, Games, Color Theme Book, Snack

10:00 - Outdoor Play or Free Play (free play includes a wide variety of play options in the playroom as well as playdough or art supplies at the kitchen table)

11:45 - Quiet time with books and music, wash for lunch

12:00 - Lunch

12:30 - Quiet time with books and music

12:45 - Story time

1:00 - Naptime

2:30 - Wake up from naps, put away sleep mats, snack

3:00 - Outdoor play or free play

5:00 - Inside, Quiet time with books and music, wash for dinner

5:30 - Dinner

6:00 - Free Play (if there are evening kids who missed out on morning circle time and activities we will often have circle time and color in our theme books again)

7:15 - Pickup

7:30 - Snack

7:45 - Storytime

8:00 - Bedtime

Daycare Schedule for Month of February

7:00 - Quiet time with books and music and as kids come in and overnighters begin to wake up
8:00 - Overnighters (and those who came very early in pjs) dress, put away
8:20 - Breakfast
8:40 - Color at kitchen table or help with kitchen clean up
9:00 - Circle time and Bingo or Memory Match Game (Wednesday mornings Cooking with the Kids)
9:30 - Snack - This if fairly close to breakfast time but at this point some kids have come in who may or may not have had breakfast, so we have a snack just to make sure everyone is okay until lunch time.
9:45 - Free play in playroom or craft items (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) or playdough (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) at kitchen table - Play options in playroom include - dolls, Little People Playset, Megablocks, puzzles, puppets, flannel playsets, mosaic pattern boards, lacing cards and buttons, Gears building set, play animals, cars and trucks, wooden building blocks and books.
10:45 - Outdoor play if weather permits. In inclement weather we will do the Alphabet Exercise Cards and then return to free play.
11:30 - Quiet Time with Books and Music (during quiet times kids take turns washing for meals or getting ready for nap and bedtime, I change diapers)
11:45 - Lunch
12:15  - Color at kitchen table
12:30 - Quiet time with books and music
12:45 - Story Time
1:00 - Naptime
2:30 - Wake Up, Snack
3:00 - Outdoor Play if weather permits. In inclement weather we will do the Alphabet Exercise Cards and then free play. (free play options see above)
5:00 - Quiet time with books and music
5:15 - Dinner
5:45 - Free Play (free play options see above)
6:30 - Circle time and Bingo or Memory Match game
7:00 - Color at kitchen table
7:15 - Snack
7:30 - Quiet time with books and music
7:45 - Story time
8:00 - Bedtime