Morning Class Schedule
Early Childhood Special Education Class
8:45 Arrive/Jobs & play in the Quiet area
Bathroom
9:30 Clean up, Dance/Sensorimotor Activities
9:40 Opening Circle
Flag, attendance, counting, sets, singing, following directions,
movements, imitation
10:00 Movement (“Shake Sillies Out”) and Story (focuses on listening skills,
answering questions, vocabulary, making personal connections to
characters and events)
10:15 Table work
10:30 Oral Motor Activity is a sound/letter/word (often vocabulary) activity for
improving speech and letter/sound knowledge
Wash hands/Snack (focuses on requesting, using language skills,
eating and self-help skills, independence; students clean up trash,
dishes, and wash table then pack their own mail)
10:50 Centers: play focuses on learning to use new and different materials
and toys, extending time in play by self, sharing toys and playing
with a peer, using pretend play and language to engage with others;
we rotate through the centers throughout the month for art, building
and quiet area with housekeeping every Thursday morning before
we begin rotations
11:15 Clean up, coats on
Closing Circle (Sing and send students to get coats on,
Good-bye Song and Book)
11:25 Outside play (take book bags and dismiss from tot lot)
If inclement weather, extended movement will be added
to opening and more singing to closing circle.
11:45 Dismissal
Thursday Therapy Rotations 9:30-11:00 (Cognitive, Fine Motor, Language)
9:30 Include a gross motor warm up and divide into small groups to
rotate through fine motor (speech/language (SLP), and academic
lesson structured to meet IEP and developmental needs of students.
Afternoon Class Schedule
Early Childhood Special Education Class
1:15 Arrive/Jobs/floor activity-books
1:30 Dance/Opening Circle (flag, pledge, 2-hands song, calendar, song board, movement)
1:45 Letter/Sound Activity and story
2:00 Whole Group &/or Small Group Instruction
(Fridays or last day of the week will be alphabet day-letter of the week)
2:30 Outside Play or movement
2:50 Choose/Center Play (art, housekeeping, building and quiet)
3:15 Clean up play areas
3:20 Wash hands/snack
3:35 Clean up snack/pack mail
3:40 Closing Circle (Good-bye Song and Book)
3:45 Dismissal
Special Activities:
PE Tuesday 2:20-2:45 (skip outside; do whole group lesson, return and do centers)
Media Wednesday 2:55-3:15 (extend whole/small group lesson, go from playground to media, return for snack; no centers)
Book Buddies Fridays 2:30-2:45 beginning in January
Guidance 4 weeks in the fall and 4 in the winter/spring
Tumblebooks Capstone E-Books PebbleGo
Starfall Brain Pop Jr. Discovery Education