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Moment Types: What Moment should I use?
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Written by Imogen Shelton
Updated over 9 months ago

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  • Share a quick note with parents

  • Post a quick photo to a child's timeline

  • Capture information that may not fit in a different Moment type

Potty

  • Log diaper changes

  • Log trips to the bathroom for older children

  • Track potty training practice for students or log accidents

Food

  • Log what time the class ate snack or lunch

  • Log what the class or an individual child ate and how much of their meal was consumed

  • Log bottles for infant classrooms

  • You can connect your menus to your moments

Sleep

  • Log when a child lays down for a nap

  • Perform sleep checks

  • Log whether a child slept, sat quietly, or did not sleep

  • Record when a child wakes from a nap

Activity

  • Record activities a child is participating in that were not part of your daily lesson plan

  • Share a photo of a child during independent play

  • Record how engaged a student was during an activity

Medical

  • Log the distribution of medication

  • If a child needs to take medicine at the same time every day, you would log that here

  • If pre-approved, teachers can use the Medical moment to log sun screen applications

Mood

  • Track a child’s mood

  • Let parents know how their child is feeling at certain times of the day

Incident

  • Depending on your state, you can use the Incident moment to log incidents in your center

  • Record injuries incurred by a child

  • Log bite reports

Supplies

  • Notify parents that their child needs to bring certain supplies

  • Make parents aware that their child is low on a supply

Learning

  • Share an update on a pre-planned lesson with parents

  • Share a photo or video of a child participating in their classroom curriculum

Illness

  • Log symptoms you see a child experiencing

  • Indicate abnormalities in a child's health

  • Indicate if additional medical care was requested or provided (such as a call to the school nurse or the child's doctor)

Ouch

  • Log an accident such as a scraped knee

  • Log whether the nurse or a doctor was notified

  • Let the parent’s know when it happened and who helped

  • Typically, this moment would log small injuries that would not be necessary to log an Incident for

Notification

  • Send out an urgent message to parents

  • Often used if school is canceled or ends early

  • Easy to send out a center-wide alert

Behavior

  • Log a child’s ability to follow directions

  • Notify the parents that their child struggled with directions

  • Notify the parents that their child was rewarded for good behavior

Health Check

  • Perform a health check when a child arrives at the center

  • Screen for symptoms of a cold, the flu, and COVID-19

  • Keep track of the time when a child may have started feeling sick

  • Log any symptoms

  • Perform temperature checks

Safety

  • Notify parents that a fire drill or lockdown drill took place

  • Leave a comment pertaining to the drill

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