Duckling

 

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.

Daily Routine

7.00am
  • Centre open
  • Children Arrive
  • Change nappies of children
11:45- 12:00am
  • Sleep time, sit beside children until they settle
8:00- 8:30am
  • Breakfast served to children
  • Offer water
  • Free play
1:30-2:00pm
  • Children start waking up
  • Change nappies and dress children
  • Change sheets on beds and cots
  • Outside play if weather permits
9:15am
  • Outside play if weather permits
2:30-3:00pm
  • Afternoon tea
10:45-11:00am
  • Prepare children for lunch
4:00pm
  • Outside play if weather permits
  • Start getting children ready for home, change into home nappy
11:00am
  • Lunch time
4:30-5:00pm
  • Provide children with late snack
11:30am
  • Change nappies and undress children preparing for sleep
  • Prepare bed and cots
  • Prepare before sleep bottles
  • Children’s sleep comfort items
6:00pm
  • Centre Closed

What to expect:

4-6 months –

  • 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

6-9 months –

  • 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
12-15 months

  • 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