WHAT TO BRING:

• Disposable nappies for the day
• Dummy (if needed)
• Comfort blanket/toy (if needed)
• Change of clothes
• Formula/Breast milk as required
• We provide cow and soy milk (please provide an empty bottle)
• Hat/coat depending on weather
• Water cup / drink bottle
• Family Photo for the Family Tree in the room

PLEASE ENSURE ALL ITEMS ARE CLEARLY LABELLED WITH YOUR CHILD’S NAME.

• Centre open
• Children Arrive
• Change nappies of children

• Sleep time, sit beside children until they settle

• Breakfast served to children
• Offer water
• Free play

• Children start waking up
• Change nappies and dress children
• Change sheets on beds and cots
• Outside play if weather permits

• Outside play if weather permits

• Afternoon tea

• Prepare children for lunch

• Outside play if weather permits
• Start getting children ready for home, change into home nappy

• Lunch time

• Provide children with late snack

• Change nappies and undress children preparing for sleep
• Prepare bed and cots
• Prepare before sleep bottles
• Children’s sleep comfort items

• Centre Closed

• Play actively with small toys, such as rattle or block
• Manipulate and mouth toys and other objects that come to hand
• Enjoy playing with soft squeaky toys and rattles; putting them in the
• mouth, bitting and chewing on them
• Bang objects together playfully; banging spoon on table
• Handle and explore objects in a variety of ways: visually; turning them
• around; feeling all surfaces; banging and shaking

• Find feet and hands and sometimes use feet to grasp objects
• Sit steadily on the floor stretching out in all directions for toys without
• falling overHold two objects simultaneously one in each hand
• Pass a toy from one hand to the other by releasing the grip.
• Begin to crawl and reach towards eye catching objects that are out of
• Pull to standing, holding onto support for a few moments but
• unable to lowner oneself. Falls backward with a bump
• Babble loudly and tunefully in repetitive strings of syllables e.g. “dad-
• dad”, “mum-mum”

9-12 months –

• Enjoy large motor activities such as pulling to stand,
• moving around furniture holding on, standing alone
• and crawling
• Enjoy the sensation and noise of banging or sliding
• objects on a hard surface
• progression to banging two toys together
• Enjoy putting things on head
• Enjoy putting objects in and out of each other- manipulating toys care
• Fully show an interest in opening and closing doors and cupboards

• Get to feet unaided
• Walk unassisted though falling often and not always able to
• manoeuvre around obstacles
• Enjoy pushing and pulling toys while walking
• Carry toys from place to place
• Begin to understand functional relationships e.g. put spoon in bowl

15-18 months

• Use two words
• Drink from a cup

18-24 months

• Take off an article of clothing
• ‘feed’ a doll
• Build a tower of four blocks
• Identify two items in a picture by pointing