PEEP Sample Daily Schedule

Start-the-Day Learning Centers

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Breakfast or Lunch

30 minutes

Teachers greet children by name as they arrive. Children participate in two or three opening Learning Centers, for example Writing, Books, and Puzzles or Math Manipulatives.  

Story Time

20 minutes

Teachers read Opening the World of Learning (OWL) storybooks, using OWL teaching strategies for literacy development. 

Group Meeting

10 minutes

Teachers introduce new materials and experiences at the Learning Centers by demonstrating and discussing.   

Learning Centers

65 minutes 

Centers include Books, Listening, Writing, Math, Puzzles and Games, Science, Sensory (sand, water, play-dough, etc.), Art and Dramatic Play

Children choose Learning Center materials, lessons, and experiences to practice and apply skills, and develop new knowledge. Adults teach, converse, extend language and thinking, and emphasize learning objectives.  Children return materials to further develop responsibility and independence.  

Small Groups

20 minutes

Children participate in one of three small group lessons and experiences.  

Songs, Word Play, Letters

20 minutes

Teachers provide sequenced lessons that further emphasize alphabet letters, rhyming, and other literacy skills.  

Outside Movement

15 minutes

Outdoor activities (or indoors, depending on the weather) include jumping, hopping, catching, parachute play, dancing, etc.).  Staff escort children to the buses and/or pick-up person.  PEEP personnel check students’ yellow key chain or button for identification before releasing them.