How to structure a day for young ones

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I've just started too and I have a 3yro ld, 16 and 18 month old. My schedule looks like Reggio's but every monring when it's nice enough we go out for a nice loonng walk. I call it the exploration walk and we talk about what we see and hear. After lunch we have music and dance then we have story time / relaxation and we go off for our nap.
Everymonth I have a theme which I plan special events like in May it was all about Prince and Princesse. So we had medieval olympics (ring toss, mini soccer ...) we had a bal so everyone dressed up on that day and I also have one movie a month. Based on my theme (or not) I find some arts and crafts projetcs and cooking as well but it is never written in stone when we actually do them. I go by how the kids feel and if they seem up for it. I also want to try setting up stations once the other kids joind the group as I want to reduce traffic in the toy roy and prevent 'collisions' hihi.