Arrival and Breakfast: Children participate in quiet activities and eat breakfast. As children finish breakfast, they can visit learning centers or participate in individual or small-group activities until most children have arrived or are finished eating.

Rest Time and Quiet Work Time: Most children nap or rest quietly. As children wake from rest time, they can select from a variety of quiet choices, such as manipulatives, drawing and writing, books, or the listening center.

Group Time: Teachers read aloud to the children as they prepare for rest time.

Learning Centers or Small-Group Activities: Children select from a variety of activities that are easy to clean up, such as books, listening center, and manipulatives.

Group Time: Children come together to listen to a daily read-aloud and/or to finish or repeat activities from the early morning group time.

Snack

Group Time: Children come together for an afternoon featured activity and

closing routine.

Learning Centers: Children choose from activities in the literacy, library, math, blocks, science, sensory, dramatic play, manipulatives, and creative arts learning centers. Teachers implement small-group activities with a few children at a time, focusing on literacy and mathematics skill-building activities and observational assessment.

Outdoor Play: Children select from a variety of outdoor activities.

Outdoor Play: Children select from a variety of outdoor activities.

Lunch: Children wash hands, help set the tables, and prepare and eat lunch.

Learning Centers and Small-Group Activities: Children choose from activities in the literacy, library, math, blocks, science, sensory, dramatic play, manipulatives, and creative arts learning centers. Teachers implement small-group activities with a few children at a time, focusing on literacy and mathematics skill-building activities and observational assessments.