Health and Physical Development (HPD) Physical Health and Growth Goal HPD-1: Children develop healthy eating habits. Goal HPD-2: Children engage in active physical play indoors and outdoors. Goal HPD-3: Children develop healthy sleeping habits. Strategy Infants/Toddlers Infants promote breastfeeding, and feeding based on cues rather than a schedule. Toddlers Ask families to share sleep routines and used it in child-care when possible. Strategy Preschool Provides a sample schedule which includes times for eating, child choice (active and quiet), nap, and physical activity both indoors and outdoors or provides appropriate guidance on creating a schedule. Guidance should include: schedules are predictable, but flexible and responsive to the needs of children.
The Get Set for School program includes 36 weeks of lessons for full-day preschools with 5 days per week of instructional time. To accommodate other preschool models, Volume 1, Introduction to the Curriculum provides an Example Schedule and Alternate Pacing Guide for half-day preschools, three-day preschools, or preschools with less than 36 weeks in their school year (Vol. 1, p. 136). For these modified instructional schedules, we recommend that teachers follow the Get Set for School Scope & Sequence for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (Vol. 1, pp. 112–135) and add Science or Social Studies lessons from Tuesdays and Thursdays when possible. Both the half-day and full-day models include scheduled time for: • Arrival/welcome • Circle time, music, and movement whole group time • Free play centers • Teacher-led Language & Literacy, Readiness & Writing, or Numbers & Math small group time • Teacher-led Oral Language, Science, Social Studies whole group time • Rotating free play centers in small groups • Recess/gross motor play • Lunch • Rest time • Closing Circle 16
