Class Schedule Example

 8:30/11:30 Greeting Time(as students come in they go sit down at the table and practice writing letters or numbers they have learned)

8:40/11:40 Circle Time- Calendar/math concepts, Weather Puppet, letter/color of the
week, songs, poems, question of the day

9:00/12:00  Activity for the day that goes along with the theme

9:30/12:30 Center Time
- Children will rotate through different centers each day
-Art
-Science
-Math/Manipulatives
-Dramatic Play
-Puppet Theater & Puppet making
-Music
-Literacy (including writing, library, and listening center)
-Sensory Table (scooping and measuring things like rice, water, beans,etc.)
-teacher-led activity(small group of children will sit with teacher to
work on things they need extra help with-reading, writing, etc.)

10:00/1:00 Math

10:10/1:10 Snack

10:20/1:20 Letter of the week lesson

10:40/1:40 Music/Movement/Group Game (inside or outsite)

10:50/1:50 Circle time with review of day

11:00/2:00 Time to go home

Breakdown of the day

From the moment your child gets to preschool to the moment he/she leaves, it will be packed with learning experiences. Here is what you can expect your child to be doing during the day.

Greeting time
As your child walks in the door, he/she will sit down at the table and practice something we’ve learned previously(name, letters,numbers, puzzles). Once all the children have arrived, we move to circle time.

Circle Time
During circle time, we will sing the greeting song, do the calendar where they will learn colors, numbers, patterns, letters of the day, the weather puppet and the story of the day. For example, the first day we always read Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. It is about names and how we shouldn’t make fun of others.

Story Time and Art Project
We will do daily story times and art projects that go along with the theme. Art projects are great because they help the children with their fine motor skills where they are cutting, coloring and using their little fingers to glue things together.

Center Time
Once the children have finished their task from the project, they will go to the centers. There will always be one that they come to with me where I will be focusing on a different concept for the day(their name, a letter, number, patterns, reading). Besides that, there will be different centers they can choose to go to. They will get to choose where they will go and there will not be a time limit at that center. They will feel like they are controlling their play time, but I will have things I want them to focus on at certain centers. During the 25 minutes, they will go through as many centers as they want.

Math
Through lots of hands on activities, the children will learn how to add and subtract, how to make patterns, how to measure, learn their shapes and much more!

Snack Time
Snack time will not only be a time where they are fueling up, but it will be a time to practice washing hands, serving each other and using manners with each other.

Letter of the Week
A new letter will be introduced and we will practice them together and on our own. We will also learn how to read these letters in words.

Music/movement/group game
I will use lots of music during the day to teach new concepts or just for fun as we dance together. During this time, we may play with the giant parachute or do obstacle courses outside.

Circle Time with Review of the Day
The last 10 minutes of the day we will sit down and review what we learned during the day and sing a song or poem together. We will discuss what we will be doing the next day. This will end our time together for the day on a positive note giving them something to look forward to.