Physical Activity in Different Preschool Settings: An Exploratory Study

Table 1

Timetables of preschools in the different locations.

Time	Germany (Freiburg, Landau)	Switzerland (Basel)	France (Strasbourg)
8:30–9:00	Unstructured free-play, indoor, and outdoor	Taught lesson
9:00–9:30		Unstructured free-play, indoor, and outdoor	Taught lesson
9:30–10:00
10:00–10:30	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
10:30–11:00	Unstructured free-play, indoor, and outdoor	Recess outdoors	Recess outdoors
11:00–11:30		Unstructured free-play, indoor, and outdoor	Taught lesson
11:30–12:00
12:00–12:30	Sitting circle	Parents pickup	Lunch break (eating, sleeping)
12:30–1:00	Parents pickup
1:00–1:30
1:30–2:00
2:00–2:30			Physical education
2:30–3:00
3:00–3:30			Taught lesson
3:30–4:00
4:00–4:30			Closing session (singing, unstructured play)
4:30–5:00			Parents pickup