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Early schedule sample to work with 2 or more groups
Time
Schedule
group A
Schedule
group B
Comments: Please see attached comments and write
your own tips to remember
8:00 –
9:00
9:00 –
9:30
Table games
Diaper change
Circle time A
Story time
A&B
Circle time B
Story time
9:30 –
10:00
Outside
activity and
play time
A&B
Outside
activity and
play time
A&B
10:00
Snack
Learning
activities:
Language
Snack
Learning
activities:
Art
A&B Welcoming environment, multiple offers to engage with,
balance consistency and novelty, music on background
Circle Time routine: Children’s VESS roll call, welcoming greeting,
songs, rimes, weather, news, B/days, topic themes talk, storytelling,
reading books, look at pictures and images, Literacy time,
Movement routine, invite parents.
10’- 15’ Pre-planned and directed activities that include: Clime, roll,
pull, push, crawl, jump, run, hop, throw, grasp, ride, sensory
stimulation, Listening to nature sounds, pretend play (“let’s pretend
we are in___ and we see__”), follow instructions, etc. Interact with
children during their play time to encourage diff act and challenge
them.
A&B
Art
Language
Potty training
Physical ed
Cognitive
Cognitive
Science
Potty
training
Physical ed
Music
Music
Science
10:15
-
10:45
12:00
Language: See planner for description. Promote conversation with
the children. Give them enough time to respond. Remember at this
age they respond physically and verbally. They love repetition, be a
good role model. Use a wide variety of lexicon, promote English and
Spanish talk, describe, narrate your actions, sing, etc. Use language
of thinking
Art: See planner for description. Let child do his/her own work.
Respect their pace, challenge and encourage independence and
creativity. Encourage them to express feelings and ideas. Be patient.
Question what they are doing. Never give them photocopies to do,
there shouldn’t be two works alike if it’s really done by the children.
Physical ed/ inside & outside classroom. Hygiene , body concept,
coordination, control, manipulation, movement
Gross motor activities
Cognitive: Puzzles, match game, sort, classify, link, build, count,
colors, shapes. Problem solving. Ask them questions, let them
explore and try. Use Thinking strategies
Science make hypothesis and let them do theirs.
Sensory
stimulation. Encourage them to explore with their 5 senses and
express ideas & feelings. Do cooking projects, Crazy art, water play,
sand play, use clay and observe changes, have a plant in the
classroom, offer textures, smells, taste, observe the clouds, listen to
nature sounds etc. Wheel of Wonder
Music: Teach at least one song weekly. Sing, sing, sing…! use
songs for transition moments. Play to differentiate familiar sounds.
Ask them to follow rhythms and copy patterns. Use different
instruments and play to recognize them. Promote expression of
feelings through the music and movement. (Ask child to freely draw
while listening to different music)