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Seasons

Suggested Activities:

  • Rise and Shine!
  • Toileting, dressing
  • Feed pets
  • Enjoy making and eating a delicious breakfast
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Bead stringing: large, medium, small or tiny beads- depends on age and skill level.
  • Wood polishing: non-toxic wood polish (beeswax, olive oil, vinegar mixture or at school we use the brand Wood Care Polish
Wood polishing
Large bead stringing
  • Arts & Craft: Seasons- dip q-tips or finger into paint and press on canvas or paper. Children need assistance to make this project successful. Children tend to begin by making dots, then go crazy and smudge and rip the paper- avoid it, wrong info.
TMSE Season triptych
Canvas triptych, 2017 toddler classroom

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  • Toileting break and wash hands
  • Food prep: biscuits and/or juicing orange-clean, slice orange in half, use manual (hand) juicer twist or press (however yours works). Pour juice into decanter and add water. Lemon/lime can be used too
  • Set the table for a snack (placemats, dishes, utensils, glasses, napkins)
  • Light a candle
  • Sing a song and child snuffs the candle flame or blows it out
  • Enjoy your meal, reflect/talk about your morning/week!
  • Toileting break and wash hands

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  • Outside: 1-1.5 hrs.
  • Unstructured play or take a walk
  • Explore, great time for language and sensorial connections
  • Toileting break and wash hands

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  • Lunch and naptime (12-3pm)

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  • Wake-up sleepy heads!
  • Toileting
  • Snack
  • Choose work or go outside or both. Child decides- (3-5pm)
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Arts and Crafts

Suggested Activities:
  • Rise and Shine!
  • Toileting, dressing
  • Feed pets
  • Enjoy making and eating a delicious breakfast
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher or hand wash and dry
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Wash the Windows: using a small spray bottle containing vinegar water solution or non-toxic solution, spray windows, scrub, and dry with a squeegee or crumbled newspaper.
  • Arts & Craft: gather lentils, beans, and pasta. Parents, cut out some shapes or draw a picture (i.e. leaf, flower, sun). Your child glues the lentils, beans, and pasta on to the shape.
TMSE Gluing beans
Paper, glue, beans, and lentils

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  • Toileting break and wash hands
  • Food prep: biscuits and/or peeling, chopping, and plating cucumber or carrots?
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher or hand wash and dry
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Set the table for a snack (placemats, dishes, utensils, glasses, napkins)
TMSE Snack
Snack time!
  • Light a candle
  • Sing a song and child snuffs the candle flame or blows it out “For the Golden Corn”
  • Model and remind them to eat with their utensils- no more fingers in their mouth and slow down, take their time

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  • Outside: 1-1.5 hrs.
  • Unstructured play or take a walk
  • Explore, great time for language and sensorial connections

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  • Lunch and naptime (12-3pm)

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  • Wake-up sleepy heads!
  • Toileting
  • Snack
  • Choose work or go outside or both. Child decides- (3-5pm)
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Language Work

Suggested Activities:

  • Rise and Shine!
  • Toileting, dressing
  • Feed pets
  • Enjoy making and eating a delicious breakfast
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • How are we going to be kind and helpful today?
  • Stereonostic bag: toiletries
  • Carpentry tools and exact matching cards
  • Doctor’s tools and similar matching cards
  • Conversations and observations | Dog replicas and similar matching cards

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  • Toileting break and wash hands
  • Food prep: biscuits and/or pulling the greens off of the cilantro and chopping? Child decides- (Substitute with anything leafy)
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher or hand wash and dry
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Set the table for a snack (placemats, dishes, utensils, glasses, napkins)
  • Light a candle

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  • Outside: 1-1.5 hrs.
  • unstructured play or take a walk
  • Explore, great time for language and sensorial connections
  • Lunch and naptime (12-3pm)

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  • Wake-up sleepy heads!
  • Toileting
  • Snack
  • Choose work or go outside or both. Child decides- (3-5pm)
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Plant Care

Suggested Activities:

  • Rise and Shine!
  • Toileting, dressing
  • Feed pets
  • Enjoy making and eating delicious breakfast
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Plant care:
  • Indoor plants: Water, dust, wash
  • Garden outside
  • Pick some flowers for a flower arrangement
  • “Garden Song” by Peter, Paul, & Mary
  • Easel and/or watercolor paintings
  • Paper tearing and glue collage (tissue paper, wrapping paper, magazines, circulars, etc.)
  • Collage can be placed on top of dry paintings
  • Wash your hands (can turn into sensorial work- switch out scented soaps or soaps that make serious bubbles or colored soaps)

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  • Dance Party!! TMSE recordings coming soon, YouTube, Spotify (Raffi, Hap Palmer, Ella Jenkins)
  • Food prep: biscuits or quesadillas? Child decides

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  • Set the table for a snack (placemats, dishes, utensils, glasses, napkins)
  • Light a candle
  • Sing a song (at school we sing For the Golden Corn)
  • Child snuffs candle flame or blow out

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  • Outside: 1-1.5 hrs.
  • unstructured play or take a walk
  • Explore, great time for language and sensorial connections