Nap Assistant Job Description
Our nap assistant supports our morning assistant with the transition from lunch, through nap and
outside for Aftercare. There may be slight variations between classrooms but this provides a general guideline.
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12:30-12:40 Children finish eating, pack up and clean up around their places and floor. Supervise with bathroom transition, (quiet in the bathroom). Assistant wipes the tables and sweeps the floors. Wipe the chair seats and stack them. Do not stack chairs while children are eating. These chores can also be done by the assistant or children after nap.
- 12:40-1:00 Supervise children going to sleep.
- 1:00-2:00 Children nap. Assistant remains attentive and in the room with them.
- 1:50-2:30 Assistant folds clothes, beginning at 1:50. Children wake from nap, quietly use the bathroom and wash their hands. (If a child has an accident, strip the nap mat and disinfect the mat. Soiled bedding needs to go home with the child.) Children fold their bedding, put in bags and store in window boxes. Supervise children in doing chores such as wipe down tables, putting up chairs, sweeping, straightening room for next day and getting ready for outside play. Make sure they are dressed appropriately for the weather.
- 2:20-2:30 Line the children up at the gate and when all are ready let them enter into aftercare on the playground and sign them in the AC notebook. Have the children place their belongings on the bench on the playground.
- 2:30-3:25 Playground supervision and checking out students on the playground. The playground staff support the children in healthy and safe play to ensure continuity of care.
- 3:25-3:35 Call “bucket round up” for children to clean up all the sand toys, jump ropes, and hoola hoops that may have been used. Once all the toys have been cleaned up, the children may collect their belongings and line up at the bottom of the steps for the Sungarden side yard. Once all the children are in line, they may put their belongings neatly on the bench in the side yard and play there until their name is called.
- 3:35-4:00 Support the transition during the drive through pick-up, one person should be walking students to their vehicle. Once the drive through pick up is complete, the children should collect their belongings and line up at the gate to transition to the lower grades playground for aftercare.
Examples of additional tasks to engage in once the children are asleep during naptime or as needed from the Kindergarten Lead Teacher and Morning Assistant’s direction:
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Keep yarn balls neatly rolled.
- Untangle finger knit play ropes.
- Cut drawing and painting paper.
- Sort painting/drawings into folders.
- Prepare beeswax.
- Sewing/Repairing toys.