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| This is our daily routine, established on day 3. |
- To wear a uniform.
- To be part of a group of 12 other children.
- To share 2 adults with 12 other children.
- To walk through a room full of enticing toys & go outside.
- To say goodbye to their parents or carers (not everyone's at this stage just yet)
- To make a good attempt at taking their own shoes off.
- To put wellies on to play in the sand.
- To find their shoes & then take their wellies off.
- To pull their sleeves up before washing their hands
- To find their ticket for snack
- To put a straw into a milk carton
- To take the peel of a banana
- To use a recycling food bin
- Learning staff names
- Learning peers names
- Turn taking in a large group
- To climb over lots of obstacles in the playground
- To put a page on the easel before painting using magnets
- To find their name & putting in on their finished art work
- To take their page off & put it on the dryer
- To leave a painting overnight before taking it home
- To tidy up in small groups of 4 or 5
- To listen to a short story
- To sit in the story room
- To wait for their parents or carers to come back
- To have fun & make new friends
- To walk away from all the lovely new resources, knowing they can come the next day
- To take just 1 sweet from a full box on a Friday
I am so adamant that preschool should be all about developing these important life skills and allowing young children to develop them at their pace.
Here's to a fun filled year with all 26 children exploring and enjoying making new friends and learning lots of new skills.
