Daily Schedule
Below is an outline of a typical daily schedule. The timing of the schedule is flexible in response to the needs of the children and the activities of the day.
Morning
7:45 - 9:00
Arrival and free play
9:15
Morning snack
9:30
1st Meeting (greetings, songs, project discussions, available choices…)
10:00
Choice Time (work in the Studio, water/sand play, blocks, storytelling…)
11:15
Clean-up
11:30
2nd Meeting (story dramatizations, music, movement, books, peer sharing…)
12:00
Lunch
12:30
Outside Play
12:45
Departure for some
Afternoon
1:30
Quiet Time (Naps or rest, looking at books)
2:30
Free Exploration
3:00
Departure for some continued activities and play for others
3:30
Afternoon Snack, 3rd Meeting and activities, outside play
5:15
Departure
Glossary of Spring Hill-isms
- Goodbye Bridge: the place many children stand to wave goodbye to their families
- Peace Bench: the place children and teachers go to work through a problem
- Studio: the space in the front room where project work often happens
- Message Center: the home for mailboxes and name symbols
- Whippy Doodles: funny plastic shapes with handles for sledding
- “Snap!”: what children exclaim when they have something the same as another person, such as the same item in their lunch box
- Meeting Time: whole group gatherings
- Middle Earth: aka the “treehouse room”- where block play happens
- Memory Books: each child has a Memory Book to house their work, photos and other treasures, it goes home on the last day of school
- Book Borrowing Envelopes: every child has an envelope to check books out of the school library
- Breathing Ball: a Hoberman Sphere used for mindful breathing during yoga or when needed for deep breaths
- Daily Journal: the highlights of the day posted on a clipboard in the entryway
- Jump Up Day: the last day of school and graduation celebration
