I've used MGT. I now create my own simple curriculum!

7:00-8:00 Arrival
8:15 Breakfast
8:30-9:30 free choice play
simple open-ended but theme related creative art is offered during this time. Basically a few kids at a time

9:35-9:45 or 9:50 circle time-stories, and/or songs, and/or puppetry, and/or finger plays, abc's some days, charted poems to read along with, shapes, colors, just depends what the day feels like etc. I use lots of visuals and props.
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10:00 snack - 2 snacks are required

10:20-11:30 outside time during good weather, shorter during cold. I don't do snowpants-ugh! We just use driveway!

11:00-11:30 music and movement, active games or second free play if we are not outside

11:30-12:00 homemade math games and manipulative shelf options

12:00 lunch

12:30 naps

2:45/3:00 get up

3:15 snack

3:30-5:00 outside spring,summer,fall. Free choice play winter

I add in cooking activities, I have art supplies available and playdoh, I have a small science area with simple things that rotate, we might play an interactive alphabet game, etc.

My themes include story, and art, and maybe cooking. I do LOTS with early literacy-charted poems, flannel board, rhymes, nursery rhymes, puppetry, interactive stories, etc. i do lots with sensory bins, my light table (which is an old overhead projector!) but literacy activities are my passion.

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