Brock Family Childcare Daily Schedule

 

  

EARLY MORNING
7:30-8:00 Arrivals Children arrive & may select puzzles, toys, books, and more on their own for free play until breakfast and clean-up are finished.

7:30-8:30 Breakfast Time.  Followed by clean-up, bathroom breaks and hand washing. After breakfast, infants are changed and put down for morning nap. As babies wake up, they are brought in to join the group activity.

MORNING ACTIVITIES
8:30-9:00 Circle Time Toddlers and Preschool children will participate together as a group. Includes preschool curriculum lessons, learning new songs and reviewing other songs we have learned, we will also go over numbers, letters, shapes, colors through the use of finger plays, feltboard stories, or puppets. Children help clean up after circle time.

9:00-9:30 Exercise Time. We will do various physical fitness activities such as dancing, leg routines, stretching, and running in place, physical games, or gymnastics.

9:30-10:00 outside Time. Outside play and/or walks; weather permitting. Play ball, run, play outside games, & play with outside toys. (If weather does not permit us to go outside we will play and indoor "moving" activity.) Followed by hand-washing & bathroom break

10:00-10:30 Morning Snack & Juice Time. Clean-up follows

10:30-11:00 Activity/Table Time. The children will color, draw, paint, water/sand play, or make projects. Perhaps a special planned activity that goes along with the curriculum lesson that week. Children help clean up after activity.

LUNCH AND REST
11:00-11:30 Free Play/Centers. Children may select & play with puzzles, toys, books, and more on their own.

11:30-12:00 TV Time. Educational video time Clean-up & calm down for lunch.

12:00-12:30 Lunch Time. Family-style lunch and conversation Children help put food away and clean up. Hands are washed, diapers changed.

12:30-1:00 Story Time. Clean-up & prepare for nap time. A story is read to children.

1:00-3:00 Nap Time. Everyone (except, perhaps, for a baby who 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 Quiet, soothing music is played during rest period to encourage resting. As children wake up, diapers are changed, hands are washed. Sleeping mats are put away.

AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES
3:00-3:30 Afternoon Snack & Juice Time Children discuss choices for afternoon activities. Clean-up follows.

3:30-4:15 Active Play. Active indoor or outdoor play for all children a special project may be planned that goes along with the curriculum lesson for that week.

LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING
4:15-4:45 free play. Children may select & play with table toys, blocks, crayons, read books, or build with blocks on their own. Personal clean-up follows to prepare for going home.

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

5:00-5:30 Departures. Children go home at staggered times. Projects are assembled, diapers changed, and parent information made ready. Children color, look at books, play with table toys until their parents arrive.

 

*Note: This is only a general guideline of your child's daily activities; our schedule may vary due to infants in care, children's wishes, special activity days, school schedules, etc.