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 to each 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 the 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, flannel board, 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