Our daily schedule

8:30	arrival and breakfast
	After we all arrive we wash our hands and sit down together to begin our meal with a sweet finger-game and blessing. Adults encourage the children to practice basic table manners. During the week we experience the taste of different whole-grains soaked and cooked either sweet or savory. This time also brings us together to start our morning with an awareness of who is here today.
—	Potty time and hand washing.
	This is a real activity for us, the children are practicing life skills and we give them the time to do so. Self-sufficiency is the most potent confidence builder. And the brain is being stimulated and prepared for reading/writing and math through the fine motor movements of in/out, top/bottom, inside/out of various buttons, zippers and pants legs.
9:00	free play
	Adults work during this time preparing food, repairing toys, cleaning and creating. In this atmosphere of meaningful activity the children feel safe and cared for. The children help or are involved in their own imaginative play. Adults provide guidance for social interaction.
—	Story time
	A story recurs for a whole month in different ways: with puppets and props. (3D and moving) with picture book (2D, selected scenes make us fill in the blanks) words only (oral recitation) The wording is always the same. Over the month this one story will stimulate different capacities of the intellectual brain for example creativity, imagination and memorization. Repeating the same story is a joy for young children and encourages perseverance and depth.
10:00	clean up time and 3 minute rest.
	Rest time is an important component to learning from activities.
10:15	circle time
	Wonderful movements to lovely seasonal verses and songs. This is a core part of the program providing experiences for large and fine motor skills, group coordination, meaningful gestures and facial expressions; emotions and imagination; verse, meter and melody; the passage of time and the circle of the year.
10:30	outside time (mini snack of fruit and nuts)
—	get shoes and jackets on.
	Again, we allow extra time for the children to practice the important life skills of dressing our selves.
—	back yard
	In addition to all the gross-motor opportunities we might offer an extra project Examples of activities: BAKING: we dig our arms in to the big sacks of grain, we hold our ears when the loud grinder goes on,we feel the soft flour, we goop our hands in the runny dough, and kneed the firm dough. The smell of bread or cookies begins to waft through the house. PAINTING: The paper is soaked in water and the paint is liquid. This allows for a very special experience of color. Dry paper and crayons are also available. We wash out the brushes, little paint jars and big water jars. MODELING WAX: we form and shape with warm beeswax based modeling wax. It smells naturally like honey and is non toxic. If we succumb to temptation and put it in our mouth the waxy texture is very strange and it becomes harder to shape.
—	go potty, wash hands
—	neighborhood walk
	Upright walking is a uniquely human movement and very important for our brain development.
—	front yard
12:15	Lunch
1 pm	go home, or
1 pm	— 2:30, nap time
2:45 pm	afternoon snack
3 pm	— 5 pm: pick-up time and free play