Children Daily Logbook
Children Daily Logbook
Children Daily Logbook
• Social-emotional
• Language
• Cognitive
• Physical
Social-emotional
Social-emotional skills are foundational to relating to others and building healthy relationships. As an
educator, you are assessing the children's capacity and progress towards self-awareness, self-
regulation, and their ability to collaborate and resolve conflicts.
Language
Cognitive
When assessing cognitive skills, you might test a child’s verbal comprehension, memory, perceptual
reasoning, and processing speed. This allows you to identify cognitive strengths and weaknesses,
specifically whether a child is intellectually gifted or experiencing any learning disabilities.
Physical
Although physical development assessments for children are often conducted by pediatricians, as a
teacher, you are also responsible for monitoring their physical progression. Most daycare-aged
children have mastered gross motor skills — crawling, standing, walking, reaching, pulling, lifting,
and balancing. These skills are crucial in a child’s growing independence needed for tasks such as
using the bathroom or getting dressed.
Toddler schedule
The toddler daycare schedule is generally designed to meet the needs of children from 18 months to
three years old. This group is newly mobile and working hard to communicate verbally. Plenty of
time to work on language and gross motor skills will be the basis of the daily schedule for toddlers as
you help them progress on all of their developmental milestones.
• Walking confidently
• Throwing a ball
• Holding a crayon
• Copying others
• Running
• Jumping
• Pedaling a tricycle
Once your children are mobile toddlers, their daily schedule will change some, with the biggest
difference most likely being the absence of the morning nap. Daily schedules for toddlers will
contain ample outdoor/gross motor time to foster the important physical development happening at
this age. The AAP recommends 60 minutes of active play per day for toddlers, with at least half of
that being led by adults.
Toddlers need plenty of group play time to explore the beginnings of cooperative play. Your
schedule should encourage interactions during activities or at play centers in the classroom. The
younger ones will benefit from observing the older toddlers as they begin to play and interact with
each other. Imitation is key as they start to build a real understanding of how to work with others
around them.