What kind of activities do your 9-11 month olds do in day care?

What kind of activities do your 9-11 month olds do in day care?

And do thy have specified nap times? (if so, what are they?)

TIA!!

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My baby entered day care at that age, he was in high chair all day because in room with 3 year Olds didn't want them to step on him so we switched to a center at 12 months that had several rooms by age he is still in baby room but going to move up soon (19 months now] the younger ones have age appropriate toys-bouncers and Walkers, they go for walks outside, they sing and listen to music ..I don't think they do art that young, he only recently started bringing art home :)

Re: What kind of activities do your 9-11 month olds do in day care?

They have nap time in afternoon but the younger ones sometimes need sleep sooner, my place doesn't have separate room with cribs so that must be hard to sleep through if need early nap

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My place follows the child's schedule until 18 mos. she starts in3 weeks, at age 9 mos so I can't say what she does exactly, but there is a schedule that rotates gross motor, fine motor, language, and music activities. And lots of age-appropriate toys in the room. She will be with 6-12 month olds.

What kind of activities do your 9-11 month olds do in day care?

My ds has been in daycare since 8 weeks and at that age they have toys. They do art. They napped on their schedule. Walks in the stroller and ds was walking so he would walk and play on the playground.

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I have to say I hated that part of the daycare. The infant room really is 6 weeks to about 16 months. They do separate the older babies, but it's still tough. I know the teachers do everything they can to keep the LO's entertained.... Music, doing fine and gross motor skill activities, some type of artwork, which really was lots of handprints ans pictured. Lol. They help working on bottle holding, crawling, walking, playing blocks, etc
I don't think there was any nap or eating schedule. It was what you told them. They needed to know when the next bottle would be and obviously fed lunch ans snacks when needed.
I just loved it so much more when DS was about 16 months and moved to the next class which really had a much more structured schedule.

Eta... Didn't mean for it to sound like I hated it, but at that age it wasn't as structured an harder to learn since there's a huge diffence between 3 months and 11 - 12 months, but they're in the same room.

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Re: What kind of activities do your 9-11 month olds do in day care?

Re: What kind of activities do your 9-11 month olds do in day care?

DS started daycare this month and he is almost 11 mos and put in the 1-2 year old room. In Sept all the current kids will move up to the next class, so he is with all 2 yr olds right now.

They have one nap time, 12-2:30, but DS typically takes 2 naps so he's in an adjustment phase right now. On weekends he takes a later morning nap than he used to, and usually 2 per day still. I honestly don't know how they keep him awake with just one nap!

Activities for his class include water table play, reading, playing with toys, cars, dolls, kitchen, they go on 2 walks per day in strollers. They have a set schedule and keep them occupied. He also eats on the schedule they set.

He's been in daycare for 3 weeks and already noticed a marked different in his development & interest in walking. They definitely keep him occupied!

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What kind of activities do your 9-11 month olds do in day care?

In our daycare the room from 6-12 months has two specified nap times from 10-12 and 2-4. They will adjust if necessary for the child's schedule.

They did a circle time in there where they would read/sing songs/etc but, it was a lot more free play and exploring at that age. They also do a buggy ride at least once a day.

My daycare is similar to alli3131s that they have separate rooms for each 6 month increment - 6w-6m, 6-12m, 12-18m, 18m-2y, etc. Sometimes kids move early based on advancement and enrollment.

What kind of activities do your 9-11 month olds do in day care?

Thanks, this is all very helpful!