Morning 3’s Class Schedule

9:00-9:40 Children arrive, large motor playground or rec center.

9:40-10:00 Outdoor group activity

10:00-10:20 Circle time in library.  Calendar, flag, jobs, songs, theme-based phonics/math lessons, storytime…

10:20-10:30 Wash hands, snack time

10:30-11:15 Center time (blocks, housekeeping, puzzles, games, library, etc.) arts and crafts, small group skill-based project.

11:15-11:30 Storytime, games, songs, fingerplays, etc.

11:30-11:55 Pack up, clean up, ready for dismissal from playground.

Transitional Kindergarten Schedule

9:15-9:45 Welcome, unpack, get organized, morning work task at tables (theme-based or skill oriented…can be worksheet, craft, game, puzzles, etc.) Then, free play with friends using books, games, toys, blocks, puzzles, craft items…)

9:45-10:15 Circle time, good morning songs, poems, flag salute and patriotic songs, attendance (using graph for counting on, adding, subtracting, combining sets, sorting by attribute, greater/fewer) Shared Reading mini-lesson. Can show homework, or Weekly Reader...

10:15-10:45 Centers except on Wednesday when we have Spanish class and Reader’s Theater, alternating…

10:45-11:00 Snack- children bring their own favorite healthy snacks from home in their back packs.

11:00-11:30 Recess, outdoor play or rec center, physical activities, group games, parachute, races, free play…

11:30-12:00 Math

12:00-12:20 Lunch

12:20-12:40 Read Aloud…Author Studies each week. 

12:40-12:45 Goodbye songs, discuss day, clean up, pack up…

PM Pre-K Schedule (same as AM, just different times)

12:30-1:15 Arrival of pre-k. Afternoon work. Project focused on weekly lesson and/or letter of the week. Free Play with friends using games, books, puzzles and toys.

1:15-1:30 Meet in Math room: calendar, morning routines, flag.

1:30-1:45 Whole group math and/or theme based social studies unit.

1:45-2:15 Recess outside or rec center

2:15-2:25 Snack time 

2:25-2:55 Split into small groups with teachers in ABC room and Math room for hands-on learning/projects in small groups. Centers (listening center/reading the room, social studies, computers, math, ABC, writing, art, science.)

2:55-3:00 Clean up and meet in ABC ladybug rug to share work from centers and evaluate

3:00-3:25 Shared reading or shared writing whole group phonics and literacy. 

3:25-3:30 kids help clean up and do their jobs, check around the centers/school, art areas for extra clean up and sorting toys, wiping tables, sweeping, etc.

3:30-3:45 Meet in library for read aloud, storytime, books on tape, author studies, group games and activities: Sing goodbye songs, get packed up and organized.

3:45-4:00 Dismissal from playground all together. 

Science lab, weekly readers, show and share, special guests, etc. are worked into routines on a regular basis (show and share is always Thursday)