NEW NEWS: The Children’s Workshop Oakland now offers toddler program enrollment for children ages 18-23 months! Use the contact form on our Enrollment page to inquire about available space for the upcoming 2024-25 school year and beyond.
Our program’s daily format is flexible and remains responsive to the children’s needs, interests and ongoing project work. However, a “typical” day might look something like this for preschool age students and similar for toddler age students but with music and movement as the focus of morning Circle and more flexible sleep and feeding schedules:
| 8:00-9:00am | Indoor/outdoor free play while children arrive |
| 9:15am | Circle time/welcome/sharing and singing/setting project intentions for the day |
| 9:30am | Snack time |
| 10:00-11:00am | Free play/learning centers and project work/small group activities or special whole class activity (music, large scale art making, etc.) |
| 11:00-11:15am | Clean up time |
| 11:15-11:30am | Wash hands/set up lunch |
| 11:30am 12:15pm | Lunch |
| 12:15-12:30pm | Story time while teachers clean up and set up for naptime |
| 12:30-3:00pm | Naptime |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Cozy corner/story time while children are waking up |
| 3:30pm | Snack time (continued until all children are awake from their naps) |
| 4:00-4:30pm | Indoor/outdoor free play/small group activities or continued project work |
| 4:30-5:00pm | Teacher facilitated group activity (dictated story, game, music and movement, sharing, etc.) |
| 5:00-5:30pm | Outdoor free play while children are picked up |
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