Emergency Preparedness
Where do you take your kids for a practice fire drill?
Playground
What time is nap time?
12-2 PM
What is the item that must be signed and completed by a parent before a center can administer any form of medication?
Medication Form
What color ink can be used on your documentation papers? (ex: face to name sheets, injury or accident reports, etc.)
blue or black ink
The physical designated space in a classroom where children go voluntarily to change their internal state from upset to calm.
Safe Place Area
What items do you need to take with you in case we ever need to evacuate?
Clipboard, Emergency backpacks, face to name sheets, kids
How often should diaper changes occur in the classroom?
every 2 hours
What is the maximum number of hours a child is permitted to remain in care within any 24 hour period?
12 hours
what is the most important paper for your daily classroom operations
This skill involves offering a child two positive, acceptable pathways to complete a task, giving them a sense of control.
Offering Choices
What is the physical layout map that must be posted next to every single classroom exit door in the facility?
Emergency Evacuation Route
what are the scheduled meal times
8:00 breakfast, 11:00 lunch, 2:30 snack, 5:00 late snack
6 weeks
how many steps does it take for an injury form to be properly submitted
3 steps: teacher fills it out, parent signs it, management gets a copy
The calming technique that uses four specific physical acronymns: the S.T.A.R., the Drain, the Balloon, and the Pretzel.
active calming strategies
This is the required off-site destination type that must be designated in writing in the center's emergency plan if the building were to become inaccessible
Secondary relocation site
how long are you required to be outside per licensing per day
45 minutes twice a day
What is the frequency, in years, in which all staff background checks must be fully run and renewed?
5 years
what is the classroom evaluation called that avion will do with you
EQIPS
Instead of asking an upset child "why did you do that?", a conscious discipline practitioner asks this question to assess their physical or emotional state.
"What do you need?"
According to Tennessee regulations, this specific piece of documentation must be physically carried out of the building by the teacher during any drill or real evacuation
Name to Face Sheet
What holidays are we closed
Thanksgiving, black friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Presidents' Day (PD Day), Good Friday, memorial day, 4th of july, labor day
What are all of the singular ratios for all 11 classrooms that we have here at PLA?
infants: 1:4, todds 1:6, 2's 1:7, preschool 1:9, pre-k 1:16
what observation tool does licensing use to assess our building and classrooms
QRIS
This basic human mechanism is the fastest and most efficient way for an adult or child to self-regulate and calm the nervous system
deep breathing