My Nursery Schedule

So new year is here and new schedule, of course I am keeping the same format, for the most part, but I think I like the times better, when we were doing nursery at 2:30, some kids were ready for naps, so far I like this better. So my schedule goes like this:

Nursery Schedule, 9th Branch
Horario de Guarderia Rama #9

10:15 - 10:20 .- Greeting/Opening Prayer
Bienvenida / Primera oración
10:20 - 10:50 .- Playtime
Juego libre
10:50 - 11:05 .- Singing Time
Tiempo de cantar
11:05 - 11:20 .- Snack Time
Bocadillos / Merienda
11:20 - 11:35 .- Lesson Time
Lección
11:35 - 11:50 .- Activity Time
Actividad
11:50 - 12:00 .- Closing prayer / Free play
Ultima oración / Juego libre

Of course, sometimes I don't follow right to the T, but it goes something like it, and well I always use the activity time to talk about the lesson, since it usually is very short and only according to their attention span for the day, also sometimes I do an extra activity and that I do before snack time, and I use it for lesson time. The singing time is also a good time to talk about the theme for the day. And for the closing, we do play a little bit if there's time, usually if I don't have an extra activity, and we do bubbles, or puzzles, or the girls love playing kitchen. All through the 2 hours we pray, to start, to eat, to start lesson, to finish lesson, to finish day, they like taking turns praying and it is a good way to teach them that Heavenly Father is real and that we can ask him and thank him for anything.

So I guess it is different for everybody, it just takes knowing your kids, and adjusting the times for them :)

Bilingual Nursery

A bilingual nursery might be a little bit more difficult than just an English nursery, but regardless I don't think you can ever say "what a breezy day I had at nursery today" No, I don't believe that, you may be able to say "what a fun day today at nursery", or "wow, I actually got their attention for more than 5 seconds today, what a great day", but easy, highly doubt it.

Oh but what rewarding calling this is, if you are like me, in a room every Sunday for two and some hours in Nursery, you know what I am talking about, I don't think I've ever had so much fun on any of my previous callings, and to think I thought it was going to be just babysitting, oh how wrong I was, it is what you make of it right? so here I am trying to do my best, and ohhh those little ones are the ones that make it all good for me every Sunday.

So all I know really is that I don't know nothing, they teach it all to me, but little by little I am learning, little by little they are teaching me, and with this blog I hope I can pass all those little tricks they teach me, to all new Nursery leaders, just remember, always have fun and a good attitude, that is #1 Lesson I learned from them :)