Charger Child Care Opens: Greet families, help children put away their personal belongings. Parents help children wash their hands. Free play at interest centers.

Teachers Arrive: Children go into their own classrooms. Free play at interest centers continues for a short time.

Snack Time: Children wash their hands, prepare their classroom tables and have snack.

Circle Time: Songs, discussion of the weekly theme, group games, dances, stories, puppets, show and share.

Small Motor: Table toys, puzzles, blocks, tool bench projects, science center, writing skills.

Art: Crafts associated with the weekly theme -- cooking projects, painting, drawing, and natural creativity.

Large Motor: Outside playground, walks, group games, dancing, tumbling, and climbing.

Dramatic Play/Science Center: Puppet shows, house keeping, dress up, career boxes, garden boxes, and experiments.

Prepare the classrooms for lunch. Wash hands, set tables, read stories while we wait.

Lunch: Served family style. Children are encouraged to try all dishes, and serve themselves with child-friendly utensils and serving dishes. Conversations and table manners are encouraged.

Clean up classrooms and prepare for nap time. We use the restroom, wash hands and faces and then read books until the cots are ready.

Nap Time: Soft music plays. Children rest on cozy cots with their favorite blanket from home. Teachers rub backs for those children who request it.

Wake Up: Children wake up at their own pace, use the restroom, wash their hands. They may look at books or find a quiet toy to play with until snack is ready.

Snack Time: Children wash their hands, prepare their classroom tables and have snack.

Free Play at Interest Centers: Dramatic play, art, small motor area, book area, large motor area.

Clean Up Classrooms: Prepare to go outside (weather permitting) or play group games, and circle time activities.

Table toys, book area, quiet activities until it’s time to go home.

Charger Child Care Closes