What happens between 7:00 AM and 5:30 PM
Most centers describe their day in adjectives. Here is ours in times. Every room publishes its full written schedule, and this is the shape they all share.
- 7:00am
The doors open
Arrival, breakfast and free play. Drop-off is deliberately unstructured: a child who has just been handed over needs a soft landing, not an activity.
- Mid-morning
Morning meeting
Every room has one. A song, a greeting, a shared moment and a plain statement of what the day holds. This is Brain Smart Start, and it is why the rest of the morning works.
- Late morning
Outside
Weather permitting, every day. Toddlers get 3 blocks of it and Preschool 2. It is on the schedule rather than being whatever is left at the end.
- Around midday
Lunch, at a table with a teacher
Cooked downstairs that morning, eaten family style with an adult sitting at the table rather than standing beside it.
- Early afternoon
Rest
Two hours in the toddler and preschool rooms. Infants sleep on their own pattern all day, which is why their schedule shows three nap windows instead of one.
- Through the day
Books, more than once
Preschool has 2 read-alouds a day and Pre-K 3. A child who cannot read yet is still learning what a story is and that an adult will stop and answer the question.
- Late afternoon
Centers again, then a closing circle
The afternoon is not a holding pattern until pick-up. It has its own arc, and it closes deliberately so a child leaves at the end of something rather than in the middle.
Every block, for every room
These are the schedules themselves, the ones the teachers work to. Pick the room your child would be in.
Where the schedule stops being the point
A written plan tells you what is meant to happen. It does not tell you what happens when one child is inconsolable at 9:40 and the plan has to wait.
That is the part you have to come and see, and it is the reason we would rather you visited at drop-off or at lunchtime than at a polished eleven o’clock. Watch how an adult crosses the room when a two-year-old falls apart. That is the center. Everything else is furniture.
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The only way to really judge a center is to stand in it. Tell us your child’s age and roughly when you need to start, and we will find you a time.