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ROOM ARRANGEMENT

Preschool Layout

• Influences how children act and learn
• Prompts children to use materials
• Easily accessible, inviting
• Children will be happy if the room is a welcoming place
• Comfortable, pleasing to the eye, safe
• Children will act orderly if the room is orderly
• Can be the cause of disruptive behavior

• Furniture is clean, safe, and well maintained.
• Wall decorations are largely made up of children’s art displayed attractively at their eye level.
• Colorful decorations, plants, pillows are used

• Personal cubby for each child
• Furniture is child sized

• Pictures, books, & learning materials with different ethnic & economic backgrounds & people with disabilities

• There is a well defined schedule
• Materials & toys are available
• Materials labeled and easy to find

• Materials are stored on low shelves so children can use materials on their own
• Materials are logically organized
• Shelves are labeled with pictures to show where things belong

• Small, quiet areas for one or two children
• Large pillow or stuffed chair
• Headphones for individual listening

• Protected and defined small areas for small group activities
• Smocks for art and water play to avoid fear of getting soiled
• Outdoor area is fenced in
• Toys are rotated so there frequently is something new to interest children

• Materials must be “Child Size”
• Picture & Bulletin Boards should be at child’s eye level
• Organized & uncluttered
• Keep learning centers separate from each other
• Everything must have a place
• Create a sense of arrival and welcome

• Do not have large spaces for running
• Fill outer edges, center is the pathway
• A square center is dead space
• Irregular or rectangle easier to use
• Children in one center cannot reach children in another unit
• No need to walk through units to get to another

• Clean, neat and cheerful
• Neatness enhances learning
• Color can provide a cheerful atmosphere

• LIGHT BLUE
• WHITE
• LIGHT GREEN
• YELLOW
• ORANGE
• RED
• PURPLE

Comfortable, soothing, secure, tender

Clean, pure, frank, cool, youthful

Peaceful, refreshing, restful

Happy, cheerful

Welcoming, forceful, energetic

Welcoming, energetic, forceful, stimulating

Mournful

Question: What colors do you think would be best for

A day care or preschool?

• Teachers must be able to see and supervise all areas of the room
• All materials must be safe and in working order
• Outside doors need to be visible and locked to the outside and to the children
• Storage of hazardous materials must be locked

• Enough empty space
• Broad, easily visible paths
• Children in one unit cannot reach children in another unit
• No need to walk through play units to get to another
• No dead space
• No blind space

• Lack of shade
• Northern exposures
• Poor drainage
• Broken equipment
• Too few things and play space

• Provide opportunity to lengthen attention span and expand on play
• Make settings for children to meet each other and socialize
• More opportunities for choice

• Cubbies for children and sign in desk
• Eating/Art Area close to a sink (may be separate or combined) should have enough seating for 15 children
• Dramatic play area
• Library/literacy center
• Circle time area with rug
• Science/math center
• Small Manipulative area with table
• Construction center
• Sensory table
• Music (space for music center may be combined with circle time area as long as it has storage for appropriate materials)
• Space to Lay out 15 Nap Mats