7:30- 8:20

Centers, breakfast table, book looking

Centers, breakfast table, book looking

Centers, breakfast table, book looking

8:20-8:30

Morning Meeting

Morning Meeting

Morning Meeting

8:30-8:55

Outdoor Play

Outdoor play & hand wash

Over & Over Activities

8:55-9:00

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

9:00-9:25

Gross motor, Music, & Movement

Gross Motor, Music & Movement

Fine Motor and Art

9:25-9:40

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

9:40-10:10

Hand wash, Snack, Hand wash, Diaper, hand wash

Hand wash, Snack, Hand wash, Diaper, hand wash

Hand wash, Snack, Hand wash, Diaper, hand wash

10:10-10:15

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

10:15-11:40

Fine Motor/Over & Over

Outdoor play & handwash

Literature

11:40-12:00

Family Living

Gathering songs & lunch prep

Gathering songs & lunch prep

12:00-12:35

Hand wash, lunch, hand wash, diaper, hand wash

hand wash, Lunch, Hand wash, Diaper, hand wash

Hand wash, lunch, hand wash, diaper, hand wash

12:35- 1:00

Mats/ Story time

Mats/ Story time

Mats/ Story time

1:00-3:00

Nap

Nap

Nap

3:00-3:10

Diaper check/potty. Children belongings and notes into cubbies. Wake up transition, mats away, continue diaper check, day notes in cubbies.

Diaper check/potty. Children belongings and notes into cubbies. Wake up transition, mats away, continue diaper check, day notes in cubbies.

Diaper check/potty. Children belongings and notes into cubbies. Wake up transition, mats away, continue diaper check, day notes in cubbies.

3:10-3:30

Finish diapering, all hands washed, snack, hand wash

Finish diapering, all hands washed, snack, hand wash

Finish diapering, all hands washed, snack, hand wash

3:30-4:00

Outdoor play and hand washing

Fine Motor/Art

Literature

4:00-4:10

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

4:10-4:35

Fine Motor/Art

Literature

Fine Motor/Art

4:35-4:40

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

Clean-up, all activities away, Rotate, Synchronize clocks

4:40-5:05

Over & Over

Literature

Fine Motor/Art

5:05-5:30

Literature, Clean up all activities, rotate, synchronize clocks,

numbers and attendance check, teachers connect for transition-

parent communication, transition and begin goodbyes.

August:

Week 1:

Rolling Balls, Tunnel, Hula-hoop: vocabulary words, “Inside/Outside”, Walk forward: “fast/slow”

Play dough- vocabulary- “soft, pull, push, hard, build, stretch, etc.”

Build with blocks

Painting- mix 2 colors

Housekeeping, kitchen, dishes, set table,

Set up Grocery Store-things from home, pack a grocery bag

Dress up- wedding, hula skirt, and cape

Week 2:

Throwing & catching balls

Rolling balls

Make a blanket tent

Climbing-use words “up, down, over, under.”

Water table: sponges, measuring cups, funnel

Pouring and squeezing

Hide the toy under the blanket

Bubbles-blow and catch

Introduce peace tables- quiet places to go for “alone time”

Practice words to use to make a friend “Can I play too?”, “Hello”

Introduce picture files- Faces

Week 3:

Balancing on one foot

Yoga: Slow breathing in and out, downward dog, Child’s pose, happy baby pose

Grain tables, corn meal bin, rice bin- (dyed rice with food coloring an drubbing alcohol), pasta & noodle bins: spooning, pouring, stirring

Continue peace tables

Practice friendly words- “can I play too?”

Plant Care

Water Plants

Plant seeds or grow lima beans

Week 4:

Tumbling-hot dog rolls

Walking backwards

Crab Walk

Texture Ramp

Sniff bottles (saturate cotton balls & store in airtight containers)

Vanilla, baby powder, cinnamon, basil, almond extract, vinegar, lemon, garlic, cloves, herbs from pizza patch

Color combining-paints

Food coloring

Finger plays

Lacing

Science experiment- vinegar & baking soda

Chanting Mother goose Rhymes

September

Week 1:

Tumbling- 3 legged crab walk

Flamingo Balance

Game- “Ring Around the Rosy”

Bean Bag toss and Catch

-Faces collage with photos for class display

-Open Sensory table- use words like: soft, hard, rough, cold, smooth, warm cotton, sandpaper, bottles, cans, fabric, sticky, foam rubber, netting, burlap

Chanting Mother Goose

Teach finger play- “5 little monkeys”

Washing objects with warm sudsy water

“Hello and Good-bye game” with sheet

Week 2:

Listening song: “Are you Listening?”

Listening games- when does the music stop/start?

Game: “Red light, Green Light”

Toddler Musical Chairs with cd’s

-Fill and Spill- fill empty containers with cornmeal or salt or sand and spill!

-“Hello and good-bye game” with sheet

-Pick up blocks and put in a cup

-Apple tree- Cut out green tree, brown trunk, and let child stick red pom-poms on the tree- fine motor.

Scrubbing play furniture

Puppets or dramatic play

Sorting Laundry

Picture files- trees and plants

Week 3:

Make a cave with boxes- “in and outside the cave.”

Jump rope play- “over, under, and around.”

Game: “Duck, Duck, Goose.”

Stringing beads

Nesting toys

Sorting TODDLER manipulatives

Build a structure with cardboard boxes and blocks

Simple Mother Goose: Write on Chart Paper- (Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, and The Three Little Kittens)

Sand paper letters

Glue paper letters

Week 4:

Musical Instruments- march to the beat and rhythm

Review Proper Playground Safety Rules

-Make sock puppet families

-Water table: Pouring & Squeezing

-Hide the toy under the blanket

-Bubbles-blowing, catching

-Pretend to go apple picking- have real apples and baskets to put apples into... you could even use apples for snack (washed of course!)

-Pretend to make an apple pie- have pans and apples around

October

Week 1:

Balls- throwing and catching

Follow the leader

How does an animal move? (dog, cow, horse, cat, monkey, fish, turtle.)

Grain tables- glue the grains for an art project

Corn meal bins/cookie sheets

Trace our bodies with bulletin board paper, color, decorate and display in hall

Make bubbles- Dawn and glycerin

Simple phonics

Yarn letters

Tissue paper pinching-letters

Week 2:

Hand-eye coordination-rolling and catching balls and bean bags

-Scarf play with music

March to the music

Make bubble bottles- in bottle with tight lid or peanut butter container and lid put 1 cup warm water and 1 squirt dish detergent and a couple drops of food coloring. SHAKE!

- Pumpkin art- Cut out White Pumpkin Shape dob orange paint on pumpkin- fine motor!

Planting seeds for our window sill

Alphabet cereal snack/art collages and sorting

Shoe sort

Week 3:

Walk on tiptoe

Crawling through tunnel

Parachute play

“Things I like” class collage

Scribble art!! (it’s what we love to do!)

Rice Bins or tactile: measuring- “can you “fill” the cup?”

Inspecting with a magnifying glass-look at classroom objects

Mirror, mirror on the wall: I see me!!

Tape record our voices!! Listen to them and guess who’s who!

Week 4:

Shoe sort- “lets all take off our shoes”, put them in a big pile and sort them by: color, Velcro or shoestring, dirty, clean, etc. :)

How do we turn pages in a book?

Make a “density” bottle- use shampoo with a marble inside so children can turn bottle around and watch marble. SUPER GLUE ON BOTTLE TOP.

Nature walk- pick up leaves and make leaf collage

Tape record teacher reading story and replay. Children help turn pages of book

Yarn play- roll, feel, tie, and cut

Crumbled/torn picture collages for fall- red apples or orange pumpkins

November:

Week 1:

Simple games- “follow the leader”

“Duck, Duck, Goose”

Toe Touches

Hopping and Jumping

-Picture box- Story box

-Cardboard blocks

-Stacking things up

-Knocking things down

-”Happy Birthday”- play with play dough cake pans, plastic straw for candles, etc.

Sorting Grocery boxes and cans, packing grocery bags

Finger plays- do daily-teach a new one and repeat!

More words to use to make a friend- “I like you”, “Do you want to play with me?”

Week 2:

-Toddler Basketball- clothes basket and a ball

-Stacking blocks up- and knocking them down

-Body parts- “touch your... (nose). Facial body parts.

-Sensory: smelling bottles... “Mmmm, that smells good!”

-art- shaving cream art (on table)

Stacking blocks or toys up and knocking them down.

-Moving Day- Get Hammer mill boxes and allow the children to pack up to move

-Cars- making a road and going to grandmas

Week 3:

-Blanket pull- put stuffed animal on blanket, let child grab on corner and pull animal all around the room

-Climbing up and down the stairs

-Rainbow dough- give children 3 different colors of dough- let them mix

- Sound bottles- put sand, noodles, paper clips, rocks, rice, etc.

-Picnic- pack a easy snack and have a picnic on a blanket- maybe even outside

-Building a house- in the woodworking section

Week 4:

-Row, Row, Row your boat- turning the stairs upside down.

-  Crawling- pretending you are a jungle animal- “What animal are you...?”

-Texture tubs- allow children to touch different textures- smooth, hard, soft, rough- sand, rice, water, etc.

-Crushed leaves turkey- allow children to crush leaves, cut out brown turkey shape and glue leaves onto turkey

-Blanket Fort- take a blanket of sheet and make a fort, put pillows, camping

-  Cleaning the dishes- wash them with a damp rag

December:

Week 1:

-Step through the rope ladder, in each hole

-Frog hop- act like a frog- Ribbit!

-Kicking a ball to other people

-Cookie-cutter prints: dip cutters into paint and make prints

- sensory bottles- “what is that smell?”

Family role playing- mother, father, children, grandparents, pets

Children’s rhyme:

“Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around”

Week 2

-Guessing Game: Guess what’s under the blanket

-Jump in the water- Have a blue blanket on the floor and jump into the water!

-Holiday cookies- cut out a round circle and allow children to glue sprinkles and glitter to the paper

-Put cotton balls on the table and practice blowing them around making a SNOW STORM!

-Baby Play- Have children pick a baby and play mommy or daddy

-make a road with small blocks and pretend to drive toy cars to work

Week 3:

-Kick the ball

-Bounce and count how many times a ball bounces.

-body rolling- rolling around

-Cotton ball art- put white paint on a plate and allow children to dip cotton ball into paint and paint picture

- put a bunch of foam snowflakes in a container of noodles, pick the snowflakes out of the container

-Playing with pots and pans- grab them from kitchen and pretend to play

-Playing with puppets- pretending to go to school

Week 4:

-Hold hands up and act like a tree... tall or short

-Dinosaur feet- stomp like a dinosaur

-Dance to music and stop when it stops, go when it plays

-Water play- measuring cups and play

-Building with cardboard blocks

-Crumbling and tossing- crumble scrap paper and toss into a clothes basket

-Unwrapping presents- have boxes wrapped and let them unwrap them.

-Baking cookies- Have pans, bowls, mixing spoons, etc and have children pretend to make a cake