Setting Up the Classroom – Day Care Center

December 4th, 2009 by author

Daycare licensees and administrators must give special attention to preschool day care classroom layout before the beginning of each school year. The preschool classroom is the child's first introduction to the world of education hence making a layout that will be attractive and enjoyable to the child will be very important. A good classroom layout could make the child's introduction to education a fun learning experience or a nightmare that could have a lasting negative effect.

A good first impression of the school's layout could help develop in a child a set of positive feelings and associations that will help carry them through in a lifetime of learning. In addition, the classroom must provide a worthwhile learning and playing experience that will help prevent a separation anxiety disorder on the children as they were left on the daycare center by their parents.

One fact that daycare licensees and administrators must always consider is that preschoolers are very active - they are always moving - so having a chaotic environment is always a possibility. Planning the classroom layout to prevent this chaotic environment is both a challenge and a necessity if they want to keep the interest of the children and at the same time guarantee their safety.

Child-sizing the Classroom
The common mistake of classroom designers is to make the layout from the point of view and the spatial requirements of an adult. While everything must not be scaled down to pint-size such as ceiling height and window sizes, almost everything in the classroom must be designed to the size of the children who will inhabit the area. Children will be very much uncomfortable and uneasy if the furniture in the classroom, as well as other amenities, will be adult-sized. It will also be quite dangerous for them trying to climb oversized chairs or getting something from adult-sized shelves.

Planning the classroom layout will require that the person who will do the design it must kneel in order to look at things on a child's eye level. This will definitely change the planner's concept of things to be incorporated into the classroom. The planner will be able to envision the right size of the chairs, tables, shelves, and everything that will be needed inside a preschool classroom.

Planning a preschool classroom will also need a clear understanding of space from the point of view of a child. While the distance from a table to the nearest toy shelf may be a few steps away when an adult is involved, the planner has to understand that it will require much more steps for the child. Arrangement of furniture must therefore be done from the perspective of a child and not that of an adult.

A tricky part in designing the classroom using a child's perspective and size is how it will affect the teacher and other staff of the daycare center. While furniture arrangement will suit the needs of the children, the planner has to consider also that the teacher and other staff have to be moving around the classroom. If the staff will be moving around in the classroom whose furniture are designed for the size of the children, they could trip over some tables or chairs as they move about. There is a need to strike a balance between the needs of the children and the need of the staff especially on matters that involve spatial arrangement of things.

The video baby monitors allow us to view our child without having to sneak into the room. All you have to do is glance at the screen to make sure that they are fine. It works well when your baby is either asleep or awake. Now, we will know exactly when they wake up; as we all know they do not necessarily cry just as soon as they wake up.

Video baby monitors come in portable versions. These are hand-held devices that can be carried with you, even if you walk outside. You do not have to worry about leaving the baby in the house while you walk outside to get the mail or to plant those flowers that you have been trying to find the time to plant.

Classroom division need not be uniform in size as different activities may require varied space requirements. Dramatic play areas are expected to be bigger in size than music area. Also, some kind of classroom activities may be noisier than others hence it will be necessary that these are assigned areas quite far from the area that will be assigned to quiet activities like the reading area. The music area must not be put very close to the dramatic area as the sound will interfere with the activities being undertaken in the dramatic area. Art and reading areas must be assigned to the quieter side of the classroom as these will need a lot of concentration on the part of the children and any noise or music could ruin their concentration.

It is important to clearly mark the boundaries of the different areas of the classroom. Divisions could be in the form of shelves or by putting color duct tape on the floor in order to delineate assigned activity areas.

A wide range of fancy blankets are also available in the market. Mothers, most often, prefer those blankets that are soft, easy to wash and clean as well as durable. There are three main types of these blankets. These generally involve woven blankets, knitted blankets and dyed blankets

Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez Higueras
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