Fill it in as you go
Keep the slips on a clipboard where the thing happens: by the changing table, at the lunch table, by the cots. A tick at the moment takes two seconds; remembering twelve children's lunches at pickup takes twenty minutes.
What goes on each slip
- Infant: bottles, food, naps, diapers, mood, what to bring.
- Toddler: meals, nap, diaper or potty, mood, today we, what to bring.
- Preschool: lunch, rest, potty, today we, ask me about, what to bring, plus the week's theme and book.
The daily slip maker prints four to a page in each version.
Why there is no medicine line
A medication record is your program's own form, under your licensing rules. Every slip says “Medication: see our log” so a family knows where to look, and nothing about a dose is written on a slip that can be lost in a backpack.