The
Cottage Garden Daily Rhythm
- Arrival
- Inside
creative-free play and artistic activity
- Tidy
up time
- Toileting
- Snack
- Story/circle
time
- Outside
Playtime
- Lunch
- Dismissal
for the half- day children
- Nap
- Playtime
- Snack
- Dismissal
for the full day children
Arrival
• 8:00
Children and parents are greeted and welcomed.
My door will be open at 8:00. Please come
in through my porch door-it will be open.
When you arrive please help your child hang
up his/her coat and put on indoor shoes.
We will be there to help with the transition
into our playroom.
Inside
creative-free play and artistic activity •
until 9:00
As the children get older each day will have
it’s own activity, such as baking bread,
coloring, felting, cooking, painting or cleaning.
Play is the most important time of our morning
as this is the children’s “work”.
This is when they learn to be together and
socialize, to learn about out sharing, taking
risks, role modeling for each other, and resolving
conflict. These are all worked out and explored
during free play under the watchful guidance
of their teachers.
Tidy
up time and Toileting • 8:45-9:00
Every toy, cloth, soft animal or pinecone
has a place in the room and the children soon
learn that tidying up is
just as pleasant a part of the day as any
other. We sing all the toys back into their
baskets and sing the dollies to sleep and
we sing ourselves to the bathroom for hand-washing
etc.
Snack
• by 9:00
We eat organic, vegetarian foods in our program.
For snack we may have oat porridge, rice porridge
or millet porridgewith fresh fruit. Milk,
herbal tea or spring water will be served.
We will clean up all together, with the children
participating as much as they are able.
Story/circle
time • 9:30-10:00
The foundations for literacy are laid through
circle time and storytelling. Circle time
is a group activity using nursery rhymes,
songs, and games, brought to life with movement
and gestures. Stories are told in the oral
tradition, creating pictures in the mind of
the young child. Both circle time and storytelling
develop vocabulary, memory, and creative imagination.
Outside
Playtime • until noon
Our yard will soon be filled with a sandbox,
cut logs for climbing and balance, and a porch
swing. We will garden in the spring and hopefully
grow some vegetables for our lunches. We go
outside in most weather: the children find
joy in the vibrant colors and windy days of
fall, the snow and ice in winter, the blustery
breezes of March and the lovely colors of
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Lunch
• 12:00-1:00
As stated above, we eat organic, vegetarian
foods in our program. Lunches may be either
a grain and steamed vegetable or a hearty
soup and homemade bread. Milk, herbal tea
or spring water will be served. We will clean
up all together, with the children participating
as much as they are able. Morning cjildren
will be picked up at 1:00
Nap
• 1:00-2:30
Each child will have a cozy down quilt and
mat to curl up on while the teacher sings
and plays the kinder lyre.
Playtime •
We will play quietly until all the children
are awake and then play some more either inside
or out depending on the weather. We will have
a snack all together upon awakening.
3:30
• Dismissal for the full day
children. A goodbye song will be sung to bid
farewell to our friends for the day.
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