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A Kindergarten Daily Schedule | Research and Play

Since I last wrote about our daily schedule, a few things have changed in our kindergarten classroom! The biggest difference has been the incorporation of rotations to teach math and ELA skills. Those two areas of our day, along with our reading and writing workshop times, have been shifted and adjusted many times. I’ve finally found a schedule that allows my students plenty of time to work and doesn’t feel rushed!

I currently teach in a full day kindergarten that is 5.5 hours long. It feels like a perfect amount of time for this age group. We’re able to get our goals accomplished without feeling rushed or squeezed for time. I’ve taught in half day (3 hours) and a very full day (7 hours), but I’ve found the Goldilocks schedule with this school (just right).

Now, let’s get to the schedule. There are some main areas we’ll cover: academics (content blocks), social/emotional (play and meetings), and specials classes. Some things are set in stone, but most things during our day happen when they do because I’ve been allowed to choose that time for our class. Our admin is very supportive and teachers at my site have a say in many (but not all) scheduling decisions.

Academics (Content Blocks)

• Math (including number talk and rotations) – 45 minutes
• Phonics Workshop – 20 minutes
• Writing Workshop (including interactive writing) – 35 minutes
• ELA Rotations – 30 minutes
• Reading Workshop (including read aloud/shared reading) – 45 minutes
• Science – 45 minutes, one day a week

These content areas include many different types of instruction, like mini lessons, rotations, small group work, independent work, conferring, and share outs. I’ll break down each one into the instruction model I use.

Math
Math consists of a number talk/warm up (15 min), and rotations (30 min). During that time, I’m able to give whole group instruction and allow for differentiated small groups. Our number talk time allows me to introduce and practice content with all students, then when we break into our rotations I’m able to dive deeper with small groups of kids based on their specific needs. My number talk time is my whole group math instruction. To see what rotation time looks like, please read this post that goes into much more detail about them! You can also read this post to see what our number talk/warm up routine is like!

Phonics Workshop
This is when I use the Units of Study for phonics from Teachers College. It is a 20 minute whole group lesson with all the kids on the rug. We learn the foundational skills standards and also link to the reading and writing standards. Using the phonics UoS has been amazing so far, and I especially love how it connects to the UoS for reading and writing. If you don’t have the Units of Study, you can use this time to explicitly teach foundational skills. In the past, I have used the Heggerty Phonological Awareness curriculum for a warm up followed by my Foundational Skills mini lessons.

Writing WorkshopAfter a GoNoodle break between phonics and writing, we begin our workshop time. Like I said before, I use the Units of Study from Teachers College. The format of writing workshop is as follows: Whole group teaching (including student practice on the rug), independent writing time (when you can pull students to confer or have writing partners work together), and whole group share out. Early in the year, I am not conferring as a one-on-one meeting but as I’m walking around. I like to stop by students as they are working, ask them questions, give any tips, and move on. The main goal is to get students independently writing, so I don’t scaffold very much during their writing time. Also, don’t forget the share out! It’s one of the best parts! Interactive writing doesn’t happen within this time, but at the end of the day during our closing circle. It’s a powerful tool for supporting writing growth, so I try to include it daily.

ELA Rotations
After watching students work in phonics and writing workshops, I am able to see if anyone needs additional support on the skills we’re practicing that day. Also, after reviewing classroom data from formative assessments, I’ve created groups of students with similar needs. So, this time of the day is set aside for groups of students to receive additional support. It follows a similar structure to years past (click here to read an older post), but this year I am working on making sure that groups are very intentionally planned so that their activities can be even more specific to their needs. Since I do have a classroom aide, both she and I have dedicated groups. I work with students who need additional support on a skill, and she works with students to do letter or word sorts based on the letters or words we studied that day in phonics workshop. The other groups are either playing differentiated games or activities based on phonics skills or they are using the iPads for practicing on Lexia (a leveled program provided by our district that is designed to support ELA skills).

Reading Workshop
Similar to our writing workshop time, reading workshop follows a whole group, independent work, partner work, and share out format. Before we start our whole group time, though, we have a read aloud or shared reading. This typically happens before lunch, then we start workshop time after lunch. During independent reading (or private reading as the UoS calls it), I can pull reading groups. I don’t have a lot of time, though, because the reading stamina for a kindergartners between the months of September-January is pretty low! I have 10 minutes to work with a group while the rest of the class reads. This is when I can do a strategy group (students who have similar errors in their reading or need coaching with a similar skills) or a guided reading group (students who are reading at the same level who I want to coach and push to the next level).

STEM (Science)
We do science class once a week for 45 minutes. On this day, we will skip our ELA rotations and read aloud. It’s not preferred, but with a 5.5 hour day it’s the best way for us to get this instruction in. We are partnered with a local program that has a specific curriculum for teaching science, so we don’t use an adopted textbook for these skills. Also, we refer to the NGSS to see how we can pull read alouds based on the standards. Although we only have this lesson once a week, we are doing science or social studies based read alouds daily.

Social/Emotional (Play and Meetings)

• Play Centers – 15 minutes
• Morning Meeting – 20 minutes
• Snack and recess – 15 minutes
• Lunch and recess – 45 minutes
• Closing Circle – 10 minutes

These areas are just as important as the academic blocks of our day. They are a time to practice and review listening and speaking skills, behavior expectations, classroom concerns, or to celebrate growth, friendships, and interests!

Play Centers
I have started the day with play centers for the past 5 years, and it has been one of the best changes I’ve made in my teaching career. I used to give out morning work, but after lots of reading and researching I stopped. Play centers are a wonderful way to start the day for many reasons, but maybe the best one is that kids are excited and happy to come into the classroom! It also allows me to get attendance submitted, check folders, greet late students, and chat with the kids. It’s something that I never skip, even on days with subs, assemblies, drills, or any other thing that can potentially throw off our schedule. Click here to read a blog post from a while back about the play centers I have in my room. Since that post, I’ve also added a building area and listening center. I display the play centers on my screen with students’ names next to the pictures. I created it in PowerPoint using pictures of the students modeling the play centers from the first week of school. I rotate students’ names daily, but after a month or so I stop and let them choose which center they want to play in.

Morning Meeting
I follow the morning meeting structure from Responsive Classroom. You can head to their website to read a lot more about the benefits and structure of morning meeting. I highly suggest this book to help you plan your meetings. This is such a special time of our day where we sing, laugh, and get to know each other. It’s also where we resolve conflicts, set expectations, and learn how to be better friends and students. Unfortunately I have to skip morning meeting a couple of times a week because of our specials classes, but on those days I can address anything we missed during our Closing Circle.

Snack/Lunch and Recess
The only thing I’ll say about this part of the day is that you MUST explicitly model behavior and expectations for students during this time of day. You can’t assume that students will know how to appropriately act or play, and if there are specific rules at your school (no climbing up the slide, no playing tag, sorting your trash into recycling/composting bins) you should teach your students about them. We spend the first week of school outside with our students most days at recess even though it is our break time. We explicitly model how to use the playground equipment, what it sounds and looks like when it’s time to line up, where their trash goes, etc. If you don’t model these things, you’ll likely have more behavior issues outside. It’s worth giving up a few of my breaks to practice!

Closing Circle
Another strategy from Responsive Classroom is closing circle. It’s a wonderful way to wrap up the day, check in with students, hear their thoughts about the day, and so on. Head to the RC website to read more, or check out this book. Even on days when our lesson ran long and we are feeling rushed before dismissal, I still include closing circle. It feels great to hear each students’ voice reflecting on their day, and it helps me gauge who I can support or check in with tomorrow morning.

Specials (Once per week)

• Music (Tuesdays)
• Library (Wednesdays)
• Art (Thursdays)

At our school, we do not have a daily specials time. On Mondays and Fridays, my class doesn’t have any specials classes. Because of our scheduling, this means that on a day when we have a specials class, something else is sacrificed. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, we do not have morning meeting. On Thursdays, we do not have reading workshop. Again, it’s not preferred, but it’s what we have to do.

Well, there you have it, my entire schedule in a nutshell! I hope it stays this way for a while because I really like the flow if it all so far. Any questions? Check my Instagram where I go into detail about my day!

Daily routine of a preschooler, correct daily routine of a preschooler

Doctors, psychologists, and teachers talk about the benefits of the regime for both the child and the adult. Our physical health, psychological and emotional status depends on the diet, sleep and rest. And if we are talking about a child, then the regime is also the basis of proper education.

It turns out that for a preschool child, the concept of a regimen is a daily routine, which includes the schedule of sleep, nutrition, activities and recreation, games and walks. Parents of children aged 5-7 who attend a preschool think less about the regime. But the parents of preschoolers who do not attend kindergarten and observe the home regimen have more questions.

Why do we need a regimen?

In a situation where there is no regimen, the child may experience:

• hyperactivity
• hyperexcitability
• memory impairment
• Decreased performance
• fatigue
• frequent respiratory illnesses

Why is this happening? The daily routine for a baby is not only a convenience for a parent or an adult whim that encourages a child to accustom a strict daily routine. The habitual mode reinforces the formation of biorhythms and conditioned reflexes, preparing the body for the performance of habitual functions, such as sleep, eating, mental activity, rest.

In addition, adherence to the regime has a positive effect on physical health, as the regime strengthens the immune system. In preschool institutions, the daily routine is strictly observed. But when bringing a preschooler home, parents do not always adhere to the regimen, in the stream of evening worries, forgetting to put the baby to bed on time, which leads to lack of sleep and, consequently, problems with morning awakening.

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Mode ABC

There are rules in all spheres of our life, they are in the observance of the regime. As we said above, there is a diet for preschoolers, physical activity, sleep, games, activities.

Power mode. If we are talking about proper nutrition, then the regime is most accurately observed in preschool institutions, so it is worth focusing on the organization of nutrition in kindergarten:

• at least 4 times a day;
• hot meal at least 3 times a day;
• in terms of calories from the daily requirement: breakfast 25%, lunch 40%, afternoon snack 15%, dinner 20%;
• according to the daily calorie intake: 5 years – 2000 kcal, 6 years – 2200 kcal, 7 years – 2400 kcal;
• in quantity – should not be given a portion larger than the child usually eats (it is better to put a supplement).

The daily menu should include meat and dairy products, bread, vegetables and fruits.

By time, the mode is built like this:

• breakfast at 8-9 o’clock,
• lunch at 12-13 o’clock,
• afternoon snack at 15-16,
• dinner at 18:30-19:30.

Meal times should be the same on weekdays and weekends.

It is desirable that the last meal was an hour and a half before bedtime.

Mode of physical activity and rest. Every day a child makes many movements, therefore, physical activity is understood not only as physical education, but also active games, sports, movement and relaxation. And here, too, there is a regime that ensures proper physical development.

• The peak of physical activity should be in the first half of the day.
• Weekly physical activity for children 5-7 years old is 6-8 hours per week, according to SanPiN.
• Mandatory morning exercises.
• Physical education classes in a preschool institution – 3 times a week: children 5 years old – 25 minutes, children 6-7 years old – 30 minutes.
• Outdoor active games for a walk (in bad weather, they are replaced by a full-fledged set of exercises indoors).
• Physical education minutes between mental activities.
• Gymnastics after daytime sleep.
• Moderately active games on the second walk.

Moderate physical activity should be observed immediately before breakfast, before mental activities and in the evening before bedtime.

Sleep mode. Proper sleep schedule helps to restore the mental and physical strength of the baby, spent on the active part of his day. Not only his psycho-emotional state, but also his physical health depends on how the child’s sleep is organized. Healthy sleep is a strong immune system. And now in order.

• Sleep duration for preschoolers: 5-6 years – 12 hours, 7 years – 10-11 hours. But much is individual – depending on temperament and loads, the required time for sleep may increase.
• Morning awakening should occur at 7:00-8:00, it depends on biorhythms and family habits, but you should not wake up later.
• Daytime sleep in children aged 5-6 lasts 1-1.5 hours. At 7 years old, the baby may refuse to sleep, but active children need about 1 hour of sleep.
• Evening bedtime depends on the presence of additional physical or emotional stress. It is recommended that children aged 5-6 go to bed at 20:30 – 21:00. At 7 years old, it is possible to shift the time to fall asleep by half an hour.

Mode of employment (mental activity) . Both kindergarteners and children who do not attend kindergarten are not deprived of developmental activities at preschool age. But like any other activity, the time and number of classes must be properly distributed and systematized. In other words, the home regimen should not differ much from the regimen of preschool institutions. The organization of classes in the general mode of the day is as follows:

In the morning after breakfast – two or three multidirectional classes. Duration of classes according to age: 4-5 years old – 20-25 minutes per event; 6-7 years – 30-35 minutes.

If the walk is canceled, then you can add another creative activity or educational game.

Approximate daily routine of a preschooler

7:00-8:00 – morning rise

7:30-8:30 – hygiene procedures, gymnastics

8:00-8:30 – breakfast

9:00 -10:30 – developmental classes

10:45 -12:15 – walk

12:30 -13:00 – lunch

13:00 -13:30 – start of daytime sleep (until 15:00 – 15:30)

15:30 – 16:00 – afternoon tea

16:30 -18:00 – walk with active games

18:30-19:00 – dinner

19:00-20:30 – independent games and activities

20:30-21:00 – laying down for a night’s sleep

When the baby can’t sleep

For compliance with the regimen, the schedule of children’s sleep is of great importance. Many parents are faced with the problem of falling asleep late and, as a result, difficult morning awakening. This significantly distracts from the execution of the regime. How can you help your child and yourself in such a situation? Try to fulfill a number of simple conditions.

Evening:

• before going to bed a minimum of mobile active activities;
• soft light and absence of extraneous sounds half an hour before the baby goes to bed;
• a ritual that you come up with and observe: a song or a certain book of poetry, or one special tale – the main thing is that this is repeated every evening;
• a warm shower or bath for 5-7 minutes will help the baby fall asleep easier.

Morning:

• 10-15 minutes before waking up, slightly open the curtains and the door;
• turn on soft music;
• come up with a ritual to wake up: a nursery rhyme or a short rhyme along with stroking or kissing will help the baby get up in a good mood;
• motivate your child to wake up 10 minutes earlier in order to have time to watch the morning cartoon.

In conclusion, I would like to remind parents that when organizing a regimen, it is necessary to take into account the individuality of the child, the presence of additional emotional or physical stress, as well as the season outside the window and the state of the baby’s immunity. All these factors can affect the balance of walks and activities at home, as well as the overall duration of sleep.

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Student daily routine: primary, middle and high school

Student daily routine: primary, secondary and high school – approximate schedule

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For a schoolchild, a properly built routine is a necessity. It helps to plan your days, adjust the work of the body and even reduce stress. Do not think that the schedule will drive the baby into certain limits, depriving him of the freedom of choice. Spontaneity is great, but it should be dosed and not affect the learning process and life in general. Absolutely all kindergartens and schools work according to a certain routine, to which the student adapts over time. You can also just build his usual daily routine. What is its use?

• Improving the functioning of the body. Having taught a child to wake up at the same time, his body will start the work of the brain, intestines, and the musculoskeletal system in advance. This allows you to feel rested and start a new day without much difficulty. Also, when eating on a schedule, a person will begin to produce gastric juice during these hours, the intestines will digest heavy meals easier and faster.
• Lesson planning. A common problem for children is the lack of hours for all the desired activities. So after homework there may not be time for games, or attending circles forces you to prepare for school until late. By making a clear schedule, the child will know what hours he can spend on his leisure. It will be easier for him to navigate in time.
• Stress reduction . Stress at school age is usually caused by spontaneous situations for which the child was not ready. When life is busy and at a fast pace, a person is not able to remember everything that is required of him in a day. From this, he grabs for everything at once. As a result, we get a poorly learned lesson, being late for classes, and poor sleep. All this is the cause of stress, which can be avoided with the help of planning.

Abrupt transition to the mode is a problematic task, so do not be surprised if the child refuses it at first. In this case, you need to explain why the daily routine will make his life easier. The best option would be to show this with your own example.

It is necessary to form a routine, taking into account the physiological characteristics of a person. With reduced immunity or excessive activity, the baby can wake up and eat for a long time. This extra time must be taken into account so that after that you do not have to do everything in a hurry. Leisure is also important: visiting circles, drawing at home or reading. All this must be clearly planned by the hour and only after that adjust the schedule. To simplify, we have compiled a rough plan of how a student’s schedule should look like. Adjust it depending on the time and characteristics of the child.

If you think a student will forget what to do and when without you being reminded, get smart and creative with your schedule.