The schedule is carefully designed to balance a teacher's structured experiences, and a child's directed activities. Hours may vary in sites. Each class has a posted schedule. Weather permitting, we go outside every day,

6:30 - 9:30 Arrivals, greetings, breakfast and unstructured, well-supervised choice time including: - dress up, blocks, sand and water table, art and table toys

9:30 Classroom lessons - children join their groups, which have their own curriculum. Teachers' lesson plans are evaluated weekly by the Educational Director

10:30 Snack, then bathroom

11:00 Specialty: art, music, library, gym or outside play, or computers

11:30 Lunch, bathroom and nap preparation

12:30 - 2:00 Rest and nap time. *1 hour State required. Children are allowed to waken gently

2:30 Bathroom, then snack

3:00 Classroom lesson, project, Spanish, computers and literature

4:00 Specialty: art, music, gym or outside play, library

5:00 - closing - bathroom and supervised, unstructured play, story telling, VCR, music and computers.

At no time will children indiscriminately watch TV, but moderate viewing of carefully selected videotapes is possible.