Handling Daily Routines

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Handling Daily Routines

• Chapter 16

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Vocab

• Routines
• Pica
• Dawdling
• Transitions
• Auditory signals

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Daily Schedule

• Arrival Routines
• Keep the routine consistent so children know what
  to expect.
• May take children a week or more to get used to
  it.
• Have children put away their own belongings in
  the proper area.
• Large Group Activities
• Songs, stories, finger plays, and discussion
• Go over the day with a calendar
• Plan large group activities in the mid-morning
• Have the children seated away from books,
  puzzles, and other materials
• Use carpet squares to give each child their own
  space
• Nap Time
• Check state regulations for on rest or nap time
• Full-day programs have a nap time

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• Small Group Activities
• Should be about 10-15 mins.
• About 4-6 children per group
• This time is to teach colors, numbers, shapes,
  sizes, or other concepts
• Self-Selected Activities
• Centers or free play
• This can be done indoors or outdoors
• Helps lengthen child's attention span
• Meals and Snacks
• 15 mins for snack time

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Daily Routines

• Dressing and Undressing
• Let them do it themselves
• Encourage and praise
• Give direction when needed
• Demonstrate
• Tying shoes
• Boots
• Coats
• Zipping
• Start they finish
• Buttoning

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• Eating
• Your attitude
• Have them pass things out
• Do not pass food or drink out until everyone has
  a placemat, napkin, and cup
• Make sure they ask in the sentence form first
• Have them pour their drink you can guide
• Eat or drink only from their placemats or cups
• Only can have seconds if everyone has had some
  first
• Have them place their cups back on tray when done
• Have them throw their items away when done
• Eating problems
• Food refusal- not needed
• Pica- craving for nonfood items
• Dawdling-for attention- give small portion of
  food and time
• Clear table without comment
• Vomiting- clean up quickly without emotion
• share with parents

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• Napping
• Quiet time before
• Teachers stay quiet during
• Let children get comfy
• Toileting
• Every child does at own pace
• Cleanup
• Make children help in center last in or one
  played in
• Do not do it all for them
• Guide them
• Praise them

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Transitions

• Concrete Objects
• Moving objects using to storage or put away
• Visual Signals
• Pictures-- strips
• Novelty
• Match theme
• Auditory Signals
• Clean up song