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Daily Schedule

EARLY MORNING

6:30-8:30: Children arrive. Children eat breakfast. After breakfast, infants are changed and put down to nap. Children help with the clean-up, play with table toys, read books, or listen to story tapes, until breakfast and clean-up are finished. School-age children leave for school.

MORNING ACTIVITIES

8:30-9:30: Toddlers and preschool children select activiites or join a noisy group activity such as finger painting, water play, cooking, or puppet making. As babies wake up, they are brought in to join the group activity. Children help clean-up, after play time.

9:30-10:30: Get ready to go outside: use the toilet, wash hands, change diapers, and so on. Outdoor play and/or walks; perhaps a science project such as gardening.

10:30-11:00: Free play again-perhaps, a planned activity, like making and using playdough at the kitchen table.

11:00-11:30: Clean-up and story time; children get ready for lunch.

11:30-12:00: Family-style lunch and conversation. After lunch, older children help put food away and clean-up. Hands are washed, diapers changed, and teeth brushed.

12:00-2:30: Everyone (except for the baby that just woke up) has a rest period. Preschool children who can't sleep, rest quietly on their mats, with a quiet activity such as, a book. It is reasonable to expect children to rest or play in bed quietly for 30-40 minutes. Then they get up and begin a quiet activity. As children wake up, diapers are changed, hands are washed, and hair is combed. Cots are put away.

AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES

2:30-3:00: Children have a snack together. School-age children arrive and help themselves to a snack. Children discuss choices for afternoon activities. Clean-up follows.

3:00-4:00: All children engage in active indoor or outdoor play . School-age children are invited to join in. A special project may be planned. Personal clean-up follows, to prepare for going home.

LATE AFTERNOON/ EVENING ACTIVITIES

4:00-4:45: Free play: children play with table toys, blocks, crayons, read books, or build with blocks.

4:45-5:00: Group story time or singing (nondisruptive play for those who don't wish to participate in the group); quiet group activity.

5:00-6:00 Children go home staggered at times. Projects are assembled, diapers changed, and parent information made ready. Children color, look at books, or play with table toys, until parents arrive. Events of the day and plans for the next day are discussed with the children and parents as they leave.

EARLY MORNING
6:30-8:30:	Children arrive. Children eat breakfast. After breakfast, infants are changed and put down to nap. Children help with the clean-up, play with table toys, read books, or listen to story tapes, until breakfast and clean-up are finished. School-age children leave for school.

MORNING ACTIVITIES
8:30-9:30:	Toddlers and preschool children select activiites or join a noisy group activity such as finger painting, water play, cooking, or puppet making. As babies wake up, they are brought in to join the group activity. Children help clean-up, after play time.
9:30-10:30:	Get ready to go outside: use the toilet, wash hands, change diapers, and so on. Outdoor play and/or walks; perhaps a science project such as gardening.
10:30-11:00:	Free play again-perhaps, a planned activity, like making and using playdough at the kitchen table.
11:00-11:30:	Clean-up and story time; children get ready for lunch.

11:30-12:00:	Family-style lunch and conversation. After lunch, older children help put food away and clean-up. Hands are washed, diapers changed, and teeth brushed.

12:00-2:30:	Everyone (except for the baby that just woke up) has a rest period. Preschool children who can't sleep, rest quietly on their mats, with a quiet activity such as, a book. It is reasonable to expect children to rest or play in bed quietly for 30-40 minutes. Then they get up and begin a quiet activity. As children wake up, diapers are changed, hands are washed, and hair is combed. Cots are put away.

AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES
2:30-3:00:	Children have a snack together. School-age children arrive and help themselves to a snack. Children discuss choices for afternoon activities. Clean-up follows.

3:00-4:00:	All children engage in active indoor or outdoor play . School-age children are invited to join in. A special project may be planned. Personal clean-up follows, to prepare for going home.

LATE AFTERNOON/ EVENING ACTIVITIES
4:00-4:45:	Free play: children play with table toys, blocks, crayons, read books, or build with blocks.
4:45-5:00:	Group story time or singing (nondisruptive play for those who don't wish to participate in the group); quiet group activity.
5:00-6:00	Children go home staggered at times. Projects are assembled, diapers changed, and parent information made ready. Children color, look at books, or play with table toys, until parents arrive. Events of the day and plans for the next day are discussed with the children and parents as they leave.