Plan, Do, Review
Key Experiences
Daily Routine

Plan, Do, Review. The High/Scope daily routine has some unique components for preschoolers. The day begins with time assigned to Music and Movement. Then there is a planning time when small groups of children decide what they would like to do during work time — always mindful that a child's work is play. This participatory, or active learning process, builds organized thinking, decision making and perseverance skills.

Once the choices have been discussed and decisions made, the children begin to work on the various activities. This work time is the longest single time period in the routine, giving the children time to interact with peers, solve problems and gather information. Clean-up is allotted a specific time to help teach the children responsibility for themselves and their surroundings.

Following clean-up, recall time is conducted. This recall time is designed to help the children to think and talk about what they did during work time. They represent in many ways what they enjoyed, learned, or experienced.

The teaching team presents another daily activity to the children in small groups. The children contribute ideas and together solve the problem presented. The activities presented are chosen based upon needs, ability, interest and cognitive goals.

Key Experiences. The curriculum presented is designed to build certain key experiences in the growing and developing child. These key experiences develop important abilities, including:

• Literacy and Language. Talking with others, describing objects, events and relationships, expressing feelings, writing words and hearing them read back, using rhymes, creating stories and listening to poems and stories read.
• Creative Representing and Experiencing. Recognizing objects by sound, touch, taste, and smell, imitating actions and sounds, role-playing, pretending, drawing or painting.
• Logic and Math:
  Classification. Investigating and labeling the attributes of things, sorting and matching, holding more than one attribute in their mind at a time, etc.
• Seriation. Comparing bigger/smaller, heavier/lighter, etc., fitting one ordered set of objects to another through trial and error.
• Number. Comparing number and amount, counting, arranging two sets of objects in one-to-one correspondence.
• Spatial Relations. Fitting things together and taking them apart, re-arranging and reshaping objects, observing things in the classroom and neighborhood, distinguishing and describing spatial relationships.
• Time. Understanding time units or intervals, and sequencing events in time.
• Initiative. Helping a child to understand and take care of his own social and emotional needs and of those around him.
• Music and Movement. Understanding tempo, sound and beat, and being aware of how one's body moves.

Preschool Daily Routine (Sample)

* Children who cannot sleep after 20 minutes are permitted to get up and play with quiet toys, games, and other activities.