Visual Daily Schedule

Using a Visual Daily Schedule will help ensure a successful day for your students (and you)! Knowing what is happening throughout the day helps to relieve stress and anxiety in young children. It also helps them to feel safe and secure in their environment. Your transition time will run more smoothly because the children are prepared ahead of time. Using the schedule consistently will help foster independence and confidence in your students!

I use a Visual  Daily Schedule on the very first day of Kindergarten. This Carson Dellosa Pocket Chart is perfect for a schedule chart. It is hanging on the wall in our Morning Meeting area which is the most important area in our room. I read the schedule each morning as part of our Morning Meeting. Doing this teaches the children what to expect during the day; where they will go and who they will see. It also ensures that events WILL happen . . . they WILL eat lunch, they WILL play outside, they WILL go home . . . these are all things that little ones (especially first timers) worry about. Using the schedule also helps children know WHY we are doing certain activities. For example, we are cleaning up because we have PE in 5 minutes.

The school day can be long especially for Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten. When you have a child missing their family the schedule is a helpful tool. You can show them the schedule and say “we will eat lunch, then play outside for recess, play math center games, go to PE and then it will be time for mom to pick you up”.  You will see that child will feel better knowing that there are 4 more activities before pick up time.

In my classroom I keep the Visual Daily Schedule in a pocket chart. I flip each activity over when we are finished. I do this every day for the first month of school. Starting in October, the “Teacher’s Helper” (one of my classroom jobs) takes on the role of telling the class the daily schedule at Morning Meeting. That child also turns over the activities as they are completed.

Ready to start using a Daily Schedule in your classroom? Pick up the Daily Schedule Cards in my TpT store. There are 98 schedule cards that are perfect for PreK, Kindergarten and First Grade.