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Here is an example of a day in the life of an EALC Child:
Self-directed Activities
The child individually chooses a variety of appropriate educational materials such as puzzles, storybooks, papers and markers or crayons, blocks and toys for dramatic play as he begins his day in school.
He may also join small groups of children engaged in the same activities.
Circle Time
The child joins his class as it gathers together each day for morning greetings and discuss the day's lessons through resource persons, pictures, charts, stories, poems, show & tell, films & music and movement activities.
Work Time
The child joins in whole-group or small-group activities such as painting, making collages, creating picture books, enjoying math and reading games and doing simple science experiments to reinforce the day's lessons or discussions.
Other Work Time Activities include...
- Cooking
The child, together with his classmates, bake cookies and cook simple recipes to sharpen their sensory and academic skills. Slicing a whole pizza into parts touches on math, setting the table and serving classmates address social skills, and preparing a recipe develops print awareness and language.
- Planting and
Observation of Growth
The child learns how a seed grows and how to care for plants.
Watching plants grow not only fascinates children but also encourages the science skills of observation and making hypotheses. In addition, it involves learning about measurement through recording of a plant's growth. Caring for plants teaches community participation and responsibility.
- Outdoor
The child enjoys gross-motor games like hide and seek, going up and down the slide and engages in sensory play like sandplay and waterplay.
Sensory play tempers intense emotional responses and develops feelings of serenity, joy, and over-all well-being.
- Snack Time
The child spends part of his day in school eating while sharing stories with friends. He also learns the values of sharing and cleaning up on his own or in cooperation with his classmates. Indeed, this is a great opportunity for him to develop a sense of community.
This sample schedule contains a brief, general idea of what happens in the classroom. Variations in the content, time allotment, sequence may differ from each education level to another (please read the EALC info books for more details).
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