The daily routine includes:
- morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack (light) and dinner
- Children are read to during all meals
- Brief phonics lesson before reading at morning snack and lunch (sounding out 3-letter words together)
- circle time (music) (3 days a week)
- nap time
- outdoor play
- free play
- set times for diaper changes (and, of course, as needed)
- educational activities facilitated by caregiver
Facilitated Activities: (varies from day to day):
- painting (regular and finger painting)
- play dough
- colouring/drawing
- blocks
- gluing
- story time (extra reading not done at meal times)
- dress-up
- board and peg puzzles
- jigsaw puzzles
- tents
- alphabet wall
- number line
- colour sorting
- beading
- games (Animal Dominoes and Animal Nose-Matching)
- shape matching
- building train tracks
