What Moment Type Should I Use?

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 Comment 

• 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

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Potty

• Log diaper changes 
• Log trips to the bathroom for older children 
• Track potty training practice for students or log accidents

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mood

• Track a child’s mood
• Let parents know how their child is feeling at certain times of the day

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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

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Supplies 

• Notify parents that their child needs to bring certain supplies
• Make parents aware that their child is low on a supply

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Learning 

• Share an update on a pre-planned lesson with parents
• Share a photo or video of a child participating in their classroom curriculum

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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)

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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

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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 

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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 

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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 

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Safety  

• Notify parents that a fire drill or lockdown drill took place 
• Leave a comment pertaining to the drill