Time Table for Buds n Blooms
8:30 am – 8:45 am Teachers preparation for the Day

Teachers / Staff prepare the classroom following the Curriculum given to them for the day on day-to-day basis.

• 8:45 – 9:00 am Free Indoor / Exploring Time
• 9:00 – 9:05 am Morning Wishes (Wishes to Friends & Teacher)
• 9:05 – 9:10 am Prayer
• 9:10 – 9:30 am Rhymes Session (Warm Up Session)
• 9:30 – 10:00 am Language (Introduction of Alphabets)
• 10:00 – 10:15 am Vocabulary Skills (New Sets of Vocabulary)
• 10:15 – 10:30 am Snacks (Every Wednesday it’s a Fruit Day)
• 10:30 – 10:45 am Free Outdoor Play
• 10:45 – 11:15 am Concept / General Knowledge
• 11:15 – 11:45 am Maths
• 11:45 – 12:00 pm Music & Movement
• 12:00 – 12:20 pm Story Time
• 12:20 – 12:25 pm Packing Time
• 12:25 – 12:30 pm Going Home (Saying Bye Bye to Friends & Teacher)

8:45 am – 9:00 am Receiving the Children
Children are Welcomed to the school. The teachers greet the children and -encourage them to remove their backpacks and shoes to make themselves comfortable and then help them transition to a free play activities. We suggest that parents or caregivers only stay a few minutes to say goodbye for few days initially. Parents are encouraged to have their child arrive by 9:00 am sharp.

I – Free Indoor Play – 15 Mins.
Free play provides opportunities for learning and social interaction, self directed centers of interest are set up to allow children independently choose activities like Jig-Saw Puzzles, Dramatic Corner, Book Shelf, Club House, Pegging, Stringing Beads, Stacking Rings, Building Blocks, Play Dough, Clay Moulding that helps them separate and adjust to the beginning of the day. These activities are of great help to children in developing maniputative skills, fine motor control, and eye-hand coordination

II – Rhymes Session – 20 Mins
This session helps children explore sounds and enjoy singing, listening, moving to music. By using instruments and voices, children learn rhymes, beat and pitch. At the same time we help children to practice self-regulation, increase attention span, and develop listening skills. The children greet one another, record the weather, talk about what they would like to learn that day. We encourage children to take turns talking and listening to each other.

III – Language – 30 Mins
Language Arts is an intergral part of our curriculum. We promote a language – rich environment where children are encouraged to freely express themselves, engage in social problem solving, and ‘use their words’. Every month we take a set of letters to introduce with sound of letter, picture flash cards, real objects, songs of that set of letters which help them to recognize and remember the letter or alphabet.

IV – snacks – 15 Mins
All childrdren are served the snacks at one place. They learn to wash hands before – after snacks, Thank, Eat without spilling, using spoons and helping them to learn the table manners.

V – Concept – General knowledge – 30 Mins
The aims and purpose of this learning area in Early Years are to enable children to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding to make sense of the world. In early years children will learn – Fruits, Vegetables, Transportation, Flowers, Trees, Pet Animals, Farm animals, Wild Animals, Water Animals, Family (My family and school family seasons, parts of Body, Community Helpers.

VI – Math – 30 Mins
Math activities expose children to numerical concept such as counting, sorting, pattern making, comparing and ordering, looking at shapres, measures and colours, and grouping objects into sets. Heand – -on – experiements encourage the understanding of mathematical concept.

VII – Music & Movement – 15 Mins
Music will be played and children are encouraged to do actions, moving body and dancing to the music (rhymes)

VIII Story Time – 20 Mins
Monthly 2 new stories will be told to children. The stories are of book stories, fennel board stories, stick puppet stories, hand gloves stories which the children like and enjoy most and improves the listening span in children

IX – Free Out Door Play – 15 MinsIX – Free Out Door Play – 15 Mins
We use the play area outside the preschool every day before the children go homes. Children develop their large motor and social skills during outside play. A climbing structure, swings, sliding board, rocker, balls, scooters and a child sized playhouse are included in the playground equipments.

X- Packing time – 5 Mins
After the Free Play children come inside their respective classes to pickup their backpacks and get ready with shoes worn.

Revised Holiday List For 2013-2014

S.No.	Festivals /Occassions	Year	Dates	Day	DC	School
1	World Environment Day	2014	5th June	Thursday	No	No
2	Father’s Day	2014	15th June	Sunday
3	Doctor’s Day	2014	1st July	Tuesday
4	Vanamahotsavam Week	2014	1st-7th July		No	No
5	Bonalu	2014	20th & 21st July	Sun – Mon	Yes	Yes
6	Parent’s Day	2014	27th July	Sunday	No	No
7	Ramzan Id-Ul-Fitr	2014	28thor29th July	Mon/Tue	Yes	Yes
8	Friendship Day	2014	3rd Aug	Sunday	No	No
9	Vara Lakshmi Pooja	2014	8th Aug	Friday	Yes	Yes
10	Raksha Bandhan	2014	10th Aug	Sunday	Yes	Yes
11	Independence Day	2014	15th Aug	Tuesday	Yes	No
12	Gokulashtami	2014	17thor18th Aug	Sun / Mon	No	Yes
13	Ganesh Chaturti	2014	29th Aug	Tuesday	Yes	Yes
14	Nutrition Week	2014	1st-7th Sep
15	Teacher’s Day	2014	5th  Sep	Friday	No	Yes
16	Ganesh Immersion	2014	8th Sep	Monday	No	Yes
17	Gandhi Jayanthi	2014	2nd Oct	Thursday	No	Yes
18	Dussera Vacations	2014	1st-9th Oct to 2nd-5th Oct	For School /For DayCare	Yes	Yes
19	Bakrid	2014	4th Oct	Saturday	No	Yes
20	Deepawali	2014	22nd-26th Oct to 22nd-24thOct	For School /For DayCare	Yes	Yes
21	Childrens Day	2014	14th Nov	Tuesday	Yes	Yes
22	Moharram	2014	23rd Nov	Saturday	No	Yes
23	Christmas	2014	25th Dec	Saturday	Yes	Yes
24	New Year	2015	1st Jan	Thursday	No	Yes
25	Road Safetly Week	2015	3rd-9th Jan		No	No
26	Sankaranti Vacation	2015	10th-18th Jan to 12th-14th Jan	For School /For DayCare	Yes	Yes
27	Republic Day	2015	26th Jan	Monday	No	Yes
28	Maha Sivarathi	2015	28th Feb	Saturday	Yes	Yes
29	Milad – Un – Nabi	2015	28th Feb	Saturday	No	Yes
30	Holi	2015	6th Mar	Friday	Yes	Yes
31	Ugadi	2015	21st Mar	Saturday	Yes	Yes
32	Sri Ramnavami	2015	28th Mar	Tuesday	No	Yes
33	Ambedkar Jayanth	2015	14th April	Tuesday	No	Yes
34	Good Friday	2015	3rd April	Friday	No	Yes
35	May Day	2015	1st May	Friday	No	Yes
36	Mothers Day	2015	10th May	Sunday	No	No