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A daily routine or regime is a structured sequence of daily actions, daily activities prescribed and coordinated with individual biorhythms. Structuring allows you not only to organize things and avoid stress from time pressure, but also to form the body’s ability to quickly engage in processes and inhibit activity. A well-designed daily routine for a student will allow him to absorb a large amount of information and allocate enough time for rest.

Definition

A student’s daily routine consists of prescribed periods of study and rest, with time allocated for extracurricular activities and outright entertainment. For an adult, this is the same plan in which school time is taken up by work. But one cannot assume that the routine is intended only to optimize workloads and ensure the ability to keep up with everything. A routine is a habit to which both physiology and mental activity gradually begin to obey.

By getting used to getting up at the same time, getting involved in work and falling asleep, a person accustoms the body and its individual systems to bursts of activity precisely at these hours. Gradually, a clear relationship is developed - an internal clock:

• the ability to wake up at the same time immediately cheerful without an alarm clock;
• composure and ability to assimilate or analyze the proposed material from the first minute of the working day;
• accelerated digestibility of food (full use of what is eaten without fat deposits and hunger) during breakfast and lunch;
• easy going to sleep - timely inhibition of the nervous system even in an overexcited state.

Active training in routine in accordance with SanPiN is used in most preschool institutions, and thanks to this, after just six months of attending kindergarten, children eat well, fall asleep quickly in quiet hours and in the evening, and also show good motor and mental activity. They are better prepared for the transition to school. In home education, the responsibility for teaching such a schedule lies entirely with the parents.

Template to fill out for students from the second shift

For those for whom teaching a child during the second shift is a headache, you just need to correctly create the student’s daily routine:

• Homework should not be done in the evening, because the children are already tired after school. You can only do what requires parental help or verification.
• If the end of the last lesson is no later than 17-00, then the evening can be devoted to physical activities - sports, dancing and everything else that the child is interested in.
• No matter what time the 2nd shift starts, children should have a full lunch before school to get the necessary boost of energy.

Alternatively, when creating a daily routine, you can divide all tasks into morning, afternoon, evening and night, as in this template.

This template is also great for dividing activities by time of day.

Daily routine in primary school

A template daily routine for a 1st grade student will most likely be proposed by the teacher at the very first parent-teacher meeting. This plan will include the individual features of the schedule:

• classes in clubs and sections;
• mode for parents for joint activities;
• time spent traveling to and from school.

The remaining points are common for most children, adjusted for the time required to complete tasks. Some people need no more than an hour to do this, others 2-3 to consolidate what they have learned, make drafts and copy the final version into a notebook.

If a child attends an after-school program, the problem of completing homework disappears by itself. Children perform them within the school walls. In this case, only extracurricular activities and mandatory hours of joint activities with adults need to be included in the plan.

Being busy and shifting responsibility to the teacher should not cause a loss of contact with your son or daughter. On days when the child does not stay in after-school care, it is worth sticking to the same schedule that operates in this system, so as not to disrupt the biological clock and not break the habit. Restructuring the body takes up to six months.

It must be taken into account that even a day off is a failure. Parents themselves should know how difficult it is to go to work on Monday, and not make the same mistakes in the process of raising children. All that can be tolerated as a 1st grade student is an extra hour of sleep on Saturday and Sunday and the same delay when going to bed on Friday and Saturday. If it is not difficult for your baby to get up early, you should give it up - wasting the period of maximum productivity of a lark on empty time in bed is stupid.

Organizing a daily schedule for the student

A typical school day looks like this:

• Rise – 07:00.
• Exercise, personal hygiene, bed making – 07:00–07:20.
• Breakfast – 07:20–07:40.
• Travel to school – 07:50–08:20 (this parameter depends on how far the child lives from school and how he will get there).
• Lessons – 08:30–12:00 (refer to the schedule).
• Second breakfast – 10:30–10:40.
• The way home, which is both a walk and a time to socialize with peers, is 12:00–12:30.
• Lunch – 12:30–13:00.
• Rest (games, hobbies) – 13:00–14:00.
• Doing homework – 14:00–16:00.
• Afternoon tea – 16:00–16:10.
• Walk, games with peers – 16:10–17:30.
• Free time: communication with family, hobbies, watching TV, reading, playing on a computer or mobile device, helping around the house - 17:30–19:00.
• Dinner – 19:00–19:20.
• Free time – 19:20–20:00.
• Getting ready for bed, personal hygiene – 20:00–20:20.
• Sleep – 20:30–7:00.

I would like to touch upon such a moment as games on computers or mobile devices. Always be interested in what your child is playing and how much time he devotes to it. It is necessary to regularly take a break from the screen by doing special exercises for the eyes. And do not allow children to play after dinner, because as a result, sleep is disturbed, the child sleeps restlessly and does not fully rest. It’s better to let him devote his free time between dinner and getting ready for bed to reading, quiet games, and communicating with his family.

This option is suitable for children who study in the first shift. But what about those who study for the second time?

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How to develop a baby harmoniously and comprehensively

In order for the baby to develop comprehensively and harmoniously, act in different directions. The following activities are useful:

• reading picture books;
• collecting simple puzzles;
• building pyramids;
• building towers from cubes;
• showing various objects and phenomena;
• use of sorters;
• games on educational mats or in play centers;
• use of the first children's construction sets with safe parts;
• communication;
• modeling from salt dough;
• painting with safe finger paints;
• listening to music, dancing.

Recommendations

Making the right schedule is only a third of the work, because the most important thing is compliance with it. If you've lived your whole life without following a schedule at all, it will be difficult to just take it and change completely. Therefore, I propose to consider recommendations that will help you gradually “enter” the new regime without sabotaging the process.

1. Recording on paper or electronic media is mandatory. No matter how great your memory is, this is an important step. This way you won’t “accidentally” forget about some nuance. The process of writing down symbolizes the fact that you are taking responsibility, which means that ignoring any point will serve as a silent reproach.
2. Refrain from coming up with something new; you should simply write down existing tasks and responsibilities. For example, you get up at 6 am every day to get ready for work - nothing will change, just this fact will be displayed in the schedule. But if you decide to do yoga in the evenings, and practice it on your own, you may not be able to implement it on an ongoing basis. It takes gradualism to get used to respecting boundaries, and discipline does not appear overnight.
3. Once you've created your schedule, take a few days to reality-test it. What I mean is that, due to some circumstances, you could allocate too much or too little time to implement something, which will cause the entire plan to suffer because it will move over time. So watch yourself for the first week, after which feel free to make the necessary adjustments.
4. Organizing a daily routine affects not only the work area, so be sure to write down household chores and rest.

Sleep Features

Sleep plays a very important role, so it should be given special attention. And there are several most important points. Firstly, the duration of a baby's sleep per year is a total of about 13-14 hours. The baby sleeps for about 9-10 hours at night, and the rest of the time during the day.

Secondly, attention should be paid to styling. Some babies fall asleep on their own, and these babies can simply be placed in their crib. Others need help to relax, adjust to rest mode, and process the information received during the day. If your son or daughter does not fall asleep on his own, think over and perform a certain ritual - a sequence of actions. For example, this could be eating, changing clothes, reading a book or singing a lullaby, moving to a sleeping place, hugging or holding hands.

Thirdly, it is worth remembering that not all children sleep continuously throughout the night without waking up. Some people wake up once, while others get up several times. But it is important to show that you need to continue sleeping: do not turn on the light, do not entertain the child. If crying is intense, offer water, breast or formula.

Main components

1. Sleep

In the first place, of course, is sleep, otherwise all the planned tasks will go to hell due to the fact that it will be difficult to even just keep your eyes open, not to mention fulfilling your duties. Adequate rest is vital and should be at least 8 hours.

By the way, oversleeping also has an adverse effect on health, paradoxically.

You should go to bed no later than 11:00 pm, otherwise your body will produce cortisol, a stress hormone. And this will eventually lead to depression, then what kind of cheerfulness and joy can we talk about? For more detailed information, check out this article.

2. Food

It should be complete, so you shouldn’t skip meals because you’re busy or because you want to maintain your figure. With food, the body gets the opportunity to replenish energy reserves so that you have the strength to work and, in general, want something. Among other things, various vitamins and microelements are supplied.

3. Rest

Be sure, no matter how busy you are, to take breaks, otherwise you will begin to use up your reserve resources, and this can lead to serious illnesses. So, once you're done with your responsibilities, give yourself the opportunity to do things that bring you joy and help you recover.

And if you don’t know how to organize your leisure time, because you’re used to devoting all your time only to your career, then make a wish list. Many of them have arisen in your mind from time to time, but you have not dared to bring them to life - start implementing them immediately.