How Does a Daycare Worker Spend a Workday?
The first thing a daycare worker has to do is open the doors for business. This may fall on the owner or an appointed employee, but someone has to get to the daycare center to turn on the lights, the heat or air conditioning (depending on the weather) and get things ready to accept the children as they arrive. A daycare worker spends much of the workday teaching and entertaining children. While teaching may not be on the level of a formal school education, daycare workers teach the children songs, games, colors, numbers and letters. The basic educational skills that daycare workers provide for the children help them when they reach school age No matter how sweet the little angels appear when mom and dad drop them off, on occasion there are squabbles between children over simple things such as who gets a certain toy or who gets to sit in the blue chair. Daycare workers spend their workday breaking up squabbles and preventing them from occurring. An often employed and very welcome part o
