TODDLERS
(Eighteen Months – Three Years)
Flexible Schedule and Routines
6:30 – 8:00 am
Greet children and parents, free play (children choose activities)
8:00 – 8:50
Center activities (art, manipulatives, blocks, dramatic play). Spend individual time with each child or small group activity.
8:50 – 9:00
Clean-up with song or poem or special individual time
9:00 – 9:30
Bathroom time (wash hands, change diapers, toileting, etc), talk to each child; Snack and time for hand and face washing
9:30 – 10:30
Outdoor play
10:30 – 10:40
Bathroom time (wash hands, change diapers, toileting) talk toeach child
10:40 – 11:10
Center Activities
11:10 – 11:20
Gathering time for large group activity, story, finger plays, Language activities, or music
11:20 – 11:25
Bathroom time to wash hands for lunch
11:25 – 11:45 Lunch
11:45 – 12:00
Bathroom time
12:00 – 2:30
Quiet time with books and music while children finish in bathroom and get on their cots for nap time or rest.
2:30 – 3:00
Wake-up time (put away cots, toileting, diaper change, washing, put on shoes), free play
3:00 – 3:15 Snack
3:15 – 3:30
Group time with story, song, flannelboard, or other language activity
4:30 – 4:45
Bathroom time
4:45 – 5:30
Quiet Activities (books, puzzles, music) individual time with each
Child, playing games, singing, talking, prepare to go home
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Prepare to go home (continued); talk with parents about today’s and tomorrow’s events, reminders, clean up
